Japanese Deputy Finance Minister Fired Amidst Tax Scandal as Prime Minister Kishida Grapples with Plummeting Approval Ratings
Japan PM sack deputy finance minister: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired a deputy finance minister on Monday, according to a report from public broadcaster NHK.
The minister had last week acknowledged to media outlets that he had previously failed to pay taxes.
Kenji Kanda, the state minister of finance and head of monetary policy and government bonds, would be the third minister to resign in as short as two months after Kishida reorganised his cabinet to boost the declining public approval ratings.
The news of Kanda’s dismissal coincides with the results of the most recent broadcaster FNN poll, which revealed that support for Kishida’s cabinet had dropped to a historic low of 27.8%, a 7.8-point decline from the previous month.
