TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet ticked up in a new Nikkei Inc./TV Tokyo survey that also shows a shrinking margin of support for the newly re-elected leader's proposal to revise the country's pacifist constitution.
Support for the cabinet, which was reshuffled in August and reappointed in its entirety after Abe's election Wednesday, climbed to 54% in the poll on Wednesday and Thursday, up 4 percentage points from the last regularly scheduled survey in September. Its disapproval rating fell 4 points to 38%.
