Overview
- Weekend surveys put Cabinet approval between 67% and 75%, with Yomiuri at 73% and Kyodo at 67.5%, while Yomiuri measured disapproval at 14%.
- A Kyodo poll found most respondents foresee economic fallout from her Taiwan remarks, yet 57% did not consider the comments careless.
- Beijing pressed for a retraction and issued travel cautions and UN complaints as Tokyo alleged Chinese jets trained fire-control radars on a Japanese aircraft.
- Debate over Japan’s non-nuclear principles resurfaced after a senior official’s personal remark favoring nuclear arms, with LDP security figure Itsunori Onodera urging open discussion.
- Domestic measures advanced, including a supplementary budget for household relief that drew 61% support in Yomiuri’s poll, a reported plan for roughly ¥1 trillion over five years to back a home-grown AI effort, and additional Ukraine aid that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said brings total support to nearly $6 billion.