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Monday March 24, 12:08 PM
Japan's PM hit by central bank row: pollMore Japanese voters blame Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda than the opposition for a row that left a vacancy at the top of the central bank as the government's approval slid to a new low, polls said Monday. The ruling and opposition camps failed to agree on a name before Bank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui's five-year term ran out last week.
Forty-one percent of voters believed the ruling coalition was responsible for the impasse, compared with 27 percent who blamed the opposition, said a poll of 1,574 households by the Nikkei business daily. In line with other recent media polls, the Nikkei said approval for the Fukuda government had dropped by nine points from last month to 31 percent, the lowest since it took office six months ago. But the opposition seems to have failed to take full advantage of the fall in support for the government. Only 29.4 percent said main opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa was doing a good job, compared with 65 percent who did not rate him highly, said a separate poll taken of 3,000 voters by the best-selling Yomiuri Shimbun Japan's opposition won elections last year for the upper house after a series of scandals under Fukuda's predecessor Shinzo Abe, who stepped down two months later. Fukuda and Abe's Liberal Democratic Party has been in power for all but 10 months since its founding in 1955. The prime minister has resisted calling a snap general election before Japan hosts a summit of the Group of Eight major industrial nations in July.
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