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Recently, ministers in Japan have caused controversy and resigned one after another, leading to a theory of responsibility for Prime Minister Kishida.



Correspondent Park Sang-jin from Tokyo.



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This is the twitter of Mio Sugita, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, who corresponds to our Vice Minister level.



In 2016, she described a woman in hanbok who attended the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women as a 'cosplay lady'.



As this fact became known recently, criticism from the opposition and public opinion poured in.



[Mio Sugita/Director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan: (Did you delete the Twitter that said cosplay?) I don't know about Twitter.

The blog (with the same content) has been deleted.]



This was not the only one.



Even after becoming a political officer, he publicly supported an article criticizing the opposition leader who supported sexual minorities, and wrote an article saying, "Leftist politicians are disgusting and their existence itself is a shame in Japan."



[Takeshi Miyamoto / Member of the Japanese Communist Party: I'm a leftist, but I'll ask Sugita honestly.

Am I disgusting?]



[Mio Sugita/Secretary General, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan: I will refrain from individually saying who is a leftist or not.]



When the opposition party even demanded his resignation, the minister personally apologized.



[Matsumoto Takeaki/Prime Minister of Japan: I hope you understand that I said it was an inappropriate expression.]



In the Kishida administration, from the end of October last month, three ministers fell from their seats due to mistakes and problems with political funds.



The government's approval rating is at 30%, the lowest since Prime Minister Kishida took office in October last year.



Analysts say that the Japanese government will have no choice but to come out passively even on pending issues in Korea-Japan relations, such as the issue of compensation for forced labor, as a series of high-ranking public officials are leading to a leadership crisis and worsening public opinion.