Just over half of Japanese oppose plans for a state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister whose assassination this month shocked the country, an opinion poll showed on Sunday.
The cabinet decided to hold a state funeral for Abe, Japan’s longest-serving but divisive prime minister, on September 27 at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan.
Some 53% of respondents in a survey by Kyodo News Agency conducted between Saturday and Sunday expressed opposition to a state funeral for Abe, surpassing the 45% who favored a state funeral.
The government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a protégé of Abe, has decided that his funeral will be paid for by state funds. The last fully state-funded funeral for a former prime minister was in 1967, with later ones jointly funded by the state and the Liberal Democratic Party, of which Abe remained an influential member.
The poll found support for Kishida’s cabinet dropped by 12.2 points to 51.0%, the lowest level in the Kyodo poll since he took office in October.
Source: CNN Brasil
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