Support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has fallen to its lowest level since taking office due to growing anger over the state funeral of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling party's ties to a scandalous church, Reuters reported.

Support for Kishida fell to 32.3 percent from 44.3 percent a month earlier, according to a Jiji news agency poll conducted over the weekend, close to the "danger level" of 30 percent, meaning the government could face problems in carrying out its political agenda.

The number of those who did not support his government rose to 40%.

Ties to the Unification Church, founded in South Korea in the 1950s, became a growing headache for Kishida after July 8, when Abe was assassinated by a suspect who accused him of supporting the church, which he said had bankrupted his mother.

After Abe's assassination, revelations of the ties between the ruling party and the church, which had been criticized for years, sparked anger over the cost of the Sept. 27 funeral, paid for exclusively with public funds, and how Kishida chose to conduct it.