Tuesday, January 22, 2008  Japanese public to the ruling
coalition: Drop Dead  Neither stupid Diet absenteeism nor losing
the Indian Ocean redeployment fight nor a solid pair of speeches
by the leader of your opponents can seriously dent your image
with the Japanese public, it seems.  Japan's Opposition Party
Tops Ruling LDP in Poll, Mainichi Says  By Tak Kumakura and
Finbarr Flynn-- Jan. 22 -- Japan's opposition Democratic Party
of Japan has a third more support than the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party to win the next parliamentary election, a
Mainichi newspaper survey found.  Forty-four percent of people
who responded to the survey said they wanted the opposition
Democratic Party to win the next Lower House election, while 33
percent favored the LDP... The Bloomberg report contains an
error. The actual numbers from the Mainichi poll are 44% wishing
for a DPJ victory and 35% wishing for an LDP victory--not 33%.
Some might jump in and say, "This represents an improvement from
the numbers of last month's surv