The upcoming election in the Japanese Diet, the upper house of parliament, is drawing near. The support rate for the Shirakawa cabinet is on the verge of “the watershed.”

The 27th National Assembly election in Japan is set to be held on the 20th. A recent poll indicates that
the cabinet led by the current Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, has seen its approval rating drop to 20.8%, a decrease of 6.2 percentage points from last month, marking it as
. The approval rating for the coalition government, composed of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party, has also declined by 6.6 percentage points, reaching
in the Japanese political landscape. In this context, a cabinet approval rating below 30% is considered dangerous territory; if it falls below 20%, it is deemed a precipice of dissolution.
Several polls have shown that the ruling coalition, consisting of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito Party, faces severe challenges, making it difficult to achieve the goal of maintaining more than half of the seats.