Tokyo, February 21: Nearly 50 percent of respondents of a newspaper poll are calling for the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
In the new survey by the Asahi daily, 49 percent of respondents say Kan should step down immediately.
Kan, Japan’s fifth leader in less than four years, took office last June. Public support for his Cabinet has fallen to below 20 percent in recent polls, with voters citing a lack of leadership.
The Asahi said its telephone survey covered 3,484 randomly selected households. It received valid responses from 2,082 individuals on Saturday and Sunday. No margin of error was given, but a poll of that size would generally have a margin of error of about three percentage points.
The results of the survey were released Monday.
——-Agencies