Asahi says 67%, Yomiuri 70% of Japanese want Ozawa to resign

Glancing at the morning Asahi things don't look so good for chief secretary Ichiro Ozawa. The main headlines says 67% of people surveyed want him to resign. The next line notes that support for the Hatoyama cabinet has fallen to 42% and the disapproval rating is 41%. That's in the upper right, being the top news. If you move to the upper left there's an article detailing all the shady dealings and listing the various large numbers of unaccounted for political contributions and so on and so forth. This is complete with a complicated chart!

Poking around, I see the headline article in online here. Take a look at the Asahi's graph, the blue line slopping down is approval, the red line slopping up is disapproval:

The Yomiuri has a similar story online here. According to them, 70% of the people they surveyed want Ozawa to step down. Here's there graph showing approval (red line sloping down) and disapproval (blue line slping up) of the Hatoyama cabinet:

And if that's not bad enough, this morning Bloomberg can't even get Ozawa's name right (they'll probably have this fixed by the time you check the link):

Seventy percent of people surveyed by the Yomiuri newspaper said Ichiro Suzuki should resign as the secretary-general of the governing Democratic Party of Japan after the arrests of his current and former aides.

The survey also shows that Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s approval rating fell to 45 percent from 56 percent earlier this month. The DPJ has public support of 34 percent, compared with 20 percent for the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, the newspaper said.

The Yomiuri took the telephone survey Jan. 16-17 and obtained 1,146 valid responses. The newspaper didn’t provide a margin of error.

Should be an interesting week.