Beijing, 30 Jul (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approval rating has been declining recently, and he is scheduled to reorganize his cabinet around August 3. Japanese media reported on the 29th that due to the scandals of former defense minister Tomomi Inada and other "female generals", the image of the "Abe Girl Scout Army" was greatly damaged, and Abe intended to invite his female friend and right-winger Sakurai Ryoko to the cabinet.
Abe's support rate has been hit hard by incidents such as suspected abuse of power for personal gain. According to the poll results released by Japan's "Mainichi Shimbun" on the 23rd, the support rate of Abe's cabinet continued to fall to 26%, the lowest in the media poll results since the support rate fell below 30% at the beginning of this month; the support rate rose by 12 percentage points to 56%.
In Japanese politics, cabinet approval is below 30 percent, seen as entering "dangerous waters" and falling further below 20 percent, one falls into "waters of stepping down."
To reverse the decline, Abe plans to reshuffle his cabinet in early August. However, on the issue of the appointment of female officials, there are fewer and fewer available candidates, and the "Abe Girl Scout Army" has exposed scandals one after another, which has caused Abe a lot of headaches.
Among them, Tomomi Inada, who is regarded as Abe's "proud protégé", announced her resignation as defense minister on the 28th of this month due to the "concealment of the gate" incident. The Olympic phase Marukawa Zhudai did not complete the "recruitment" indicator, and also faced "layoffs". According to internal LDP regulations, Marukawa was supposed to recruit 1,000 new LDP members, but she only developed two last year and will be punished accordingly. Sanae Takashi, the general secretary who has been in office for nearly 3 years, is caught in the divorce storm and bears the pressure of "changing generals" within the party.
The "Abe Girl Scout Army" among the parliamentarians is also a farce, causing external resentment. Among them, the house of representatives female member Masayuki Toyoda was exposed to beating the secretary and speaking rudely, while the Senate woman Eriko Imai was accused of having an extramarital affair.
According to Japanese media, against this backdrop, Abe is ready to invite his female friend and political commentator Ryoko Sakurai to the cabinet as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Born in 1945, Sakurai Ryoko is a current right-wing forum activist in Japan and has a lot of "black history". She denied the history of Japan's invasion of China, the Nanjing Massacre, and the "comfort women" issue, and participated in the compilation of the book "The Latest History of Japan", fabricating "conspiracy theories" and putting the responsibility for the "July 7 Incident" and the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese all-out war on China.
In addition, she also organized Japanese right-wingers to publish "advertisements" in American newspapers about the so-called "truth" of the victimization of Asian "comfort women," which aroused public condemnation.