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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Full Focus Best of the week Our top photos from the past week. Full Article Follow Reuters Almost half voters think Japan PM should quit: poll Tweet Share this Link this TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly half of Japanese voters believe Prime Minister Naoto Kan should quit soon, a poll by the Asahi newspaper showed Monday as Kan struggles with a divided parliament and feuding inside his own party. Support for the Democratic... Email Print Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (front) attends a rally to call on Russia to return a group of islands, called Northern Territories by Tokyo and Southern Kuriles by Moscow, in Tokyo February 7, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Toru Hanai Related News Egypt banks and pyramids open as some protest in Cairo Sun, Feb 20 2011 House defies Obama by passing spending-cut bill Sat, Feb 19 2011 UPDATE 3-US House votes to deny Obama healthcare law funds Fri, Feb 18 2011 India police broaden graft probe; shares take a hit Fri, Feb 18 2011 Japan opposition nixes deal for PM to quit: report Fri, Feb 18 2011 Analysis & Opinion Boehner gets a taste of Republican budget-cutting zeal in Congress Digital media and the Arab spring Related Topics World » Japan » TOKYO | Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:13pm EST TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly half of Japanese voters believe Prime Minister Naoto Kan should quit soon, a poll by the Asahi newspaper showed Monday as Kan struggles with a divided parliament and feuding inside his own party. Support for the Democratic Party-led government was only 20 percent, according to the poll, down from 26 percent in the newspaper's previous survey last month, weakening Kan's clout and hampering his efforts to carry out tax and social security reforms. Voters are growing increasingly dissatisfied with Kan's handling of the economy, perceived missteps in diplomatic rows and a widening rift within the party over how to deal with powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, who has been charged in a funding scandal. Kan, faced with the difficulty of passing budget bills through a hung parliament, has refused to rule out a snap election, but analysts said he was more likely to stay in his job for now and pressure the opposition to do a deal. The government has begun warning opposition parties not to risk hurting a nascent economic recovery or upsetting financial markets by failing to enact bills needed to implement a $1 trillion budget for the year from April 1. "We're approaching the critical stage where we can bring the economy on to a path toward a fully fledged recovery through passage of the budget (for the fiscal year from April 1)," Kan told a parliamentary committee. The Asahi poll showed almost half those surveyed believe Kan does not need to call an immediate general election, but in another survey by the Mainichi daily, 60 percent of respondents called for an early election. The Mainichi poll showed support for the Kan government has fallen to 19 percent, down from 29 percent in its January survey. Some analysts said Kan might cling to his post for now but could be forced to quit once nationwide local elections in April are over and opposition parties become more flexible about deal-making. "For now, he will hang tough, neither resigning nor calling a snap election," said Minoru Morita, an independent political commentator. "Once the local elections are over, the New Komeito in particular may be willing to compromise (by helping pass budget bills in exchange for Kan's resignation)," he said. "The Democrats will lose massively in the local elections and Kan will not be able to hang on." The New Komeito, Japan's second-largest opposition party, has rejected a deal proposed by a senior DPJ lawmaker in which Kan would quit in return for help in securing passage of a workable budget, the Asahi said Friday. In the Mainichi poll, 26 percent of those surveyed said they would vote for the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party if a lower house election were held now, more than the 21 percent who said they would vote for the ruling party. Figures were 25 percent for the LDP and 19 percent for the DPJ in the Asahi poll. 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