Not to mention a good story by their reporter Hiroshi Itoh explaining how such a thing could happen to a man with god-like status as Obama (as the Japanese themselves were led to believe) is now suffering plummeting popularity. Mainichi is running it. Yomiuri too, conservative Sankei in the vanguard. Reuters, AP, Jiji, Kyodo, the TV networks. It is spreading fast. If one picks it up, they all eat it up. Here, here is Asahi's graph on Obama from a few hours ago:
Japanese had been rather hesitant to report on this phenomenon all through the Tea Parties and the Town Halls, but I bet this little series of episodes by Obama in Tokyo
(and the wider performance in Asia:
has set them off and it is open season politically, they won't feel as fettered now to report these negative stateside poll numbers on Obama and better yet, dive into the details with their readership in a good, explanatory tone, and place the stories at ever high positions of prominence in the papers.