Cabinet approval below 20%, disapproval now 72%.

Cop shoots Tosa attacking man.

English taught in English ?

Cuts in payrolls mount.

Tami flu helpless this year.

Uniqlo to train execs in-house.

Toyota Shock: grandson to take top job, suspends operations for 11 more days, orders dry up.

New Year basho last throw of the dice for Asashoryu.

Aso’s latest stimulus worth ¥23 trillion. (23 Cho Yen)

Brick scare in Nagoya. (Not Bomb Scare)

Pushy tourists bother Maiko.

An accuser of Japanese corruption jumped from an apartment to his death.

Megabanks in Japan, Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Financial, lost something.