Kishida’s support hits low on his party’s ties to controversial church

Help for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s authorities slid to the bottom of his one-year tenure on doubts about his social gathering’s disclosure on ties to the controversial Unification Church, an opinion ballot confirmed Sunday.

Kishida has struggled to beat revelations of the ruling Liberal Democratic Celebration’s deep and longstanding ties to the church within the wake of the July assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.