I have family in Japan and the entire reason they moved there was because they wanted to live in a country that absolutely nobody will bother them with politics. Tells you both a lot about them and also a lot about Japan that they absolutely love it there and never want to leave.

i may be off base here but iirc a lot of that was because of the backlash against the fact that a korean-based cult had so much influence on japanese politics, and japanese nationalists are pretty rabid in their hatred for korea (and china ofc), not that there was broad popular disapproval for the LDP in general

According to recent polls from Kyodo News, 69.9% of the Japanese public still support Sanae Takaichi. According to Yomiuri Shimbun, this is actually HIGHER than the approval rate that Shinzo Abe had one month after his first term as PM. Furthermore, 60.4% of the Japanese public support expansion of the military, and 48.8% support “collective self-defense” in the event of a cross-Taiwan strait conflict (44.2% oppose it).

If anything, the Japanese government broadly reflects exactly what the people there want.