TOKYO -- More than three-quarters of Japanese support allowing women to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, a Nikkei opinion poll shows, indicating a gap between public opinion and the current government's reluctance so far.
Approval of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet jumped 7 percentage points from the last poll, in late March, to 55% in the survey taken Friday to Sunday. Also notable was a surge in the public standing of Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who received the fourth-highest support among the possible candidates to become the next prime minister.
