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.