The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet has dropped again, as he grapples with multiple scandals.<br /> An NHK poll conducted over the weekend shows support for Abe's Cabinet at 38 percent, dropping six points from the previous month. <br />Abe has been in hot water over a cover up of the Japanese military's activity logs in Iraq more than a decade ago. <br /> Out of the 12-hundred people surveyed, 66 percent of respondents said they found the government's handling of documents problematic, while five percent said they did not.<br />Just over half of the respondents also said they did not think the principle of civilian control of Japan's Self-Defense Force functioned properly, compared to five percent who thought it did.<br />Confidence in Abe's government has been fading amid the document cover-up, a cronyism scandal and his push to change Japan's pacifist Constitution. <br />
