Ishiba's approval rating is 34 percent...Down more than 17%p from the beginning of his inauguration

Shigeru Ishiba's approval rating for the Japanese cabinet has fallen by nearly 20 percentage points in the first month of its inauguration, according to a survey.

In addition, more than half of the people are satisfied with the ruling party's failure to win a majority of the general elections.

The Yomiuri Shimbun surveyed more than 1,000 voters from the 28th to the 29th immediately after the House of Representatives election held on the 27th, and found that Ishiba's approval rating was 34%.

This is down 17 percentage points from the 51% survey results for two days from the 1st when Prime Minister Ishiba took office.

Fifty-one percent said they did not support Ishiba's cabinet, up 19 percentage points from 32 percent over the same period.

In the general election results, which failed to maintain a majority of seats in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition parties, including the Constitutional Democratic Party, 58 percent of the respondents said "good" and more than twice as many as 25 percent said "not good."

As for whether the LDP faction's slush fund scandal late last year affected the outcome of the election, 90% said yes.

However, 56% said there was no need to resign as to whether Prime Minister Ishiba should resign to take responsibility for the failure to secure a majority of seats in the ruling party.