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According to a recent poll in the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, half of Japan's public supports neither party.

THE Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese daily, has a reputation for illiberal commentary.

Under Mr Fukuda, power has flowed back to the factions and to the party gerontocrats notably two former prime ministers, Yasuhiro Nakasone (89) and Yoshiro Mori (70) as well as Tsuneo Watanabe (81), publisher of Japan's biggest-circulation newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.

In Japan, newspapers reflected a mixed reaction: the liberal Asahi Shimbun said Mr Koizumi's handling of the visit was "not worthy of praise", while the conservative press accused the prime minister of backtracking on his election promises to visit the shrine on the anniversary of the surrender.Mr Koizumi did not make it clear if his visit to the Yasukuni shrine was an official one.

In a poll this week by Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest-selling newspaper (which has pro-LDP leanings), 71% of respondents supported Mr Hatoyama's cabinet.

The money comes from donations, the sale of burial plots, rent from property, and its newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun, whose circulation is 5.5m.But, like many organisations that have grown fat and lost sight of their original purpose, the Soka Gakkai protects its interests with a ruthlessness that has frightened off critics and cowed the Japanese mainstream media into silence.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest newspaper, in January hosted a forum on whether the pursuit of profits by companies had gotten out of control.

On October 8th prosecutors charged Tatsuya Kato, until recently the Seoul bureau chief of the Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese right-wing daily, with defaming the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye.

Further details are scant, but the bill reportedly lacks important provisions, including independent review of what can be called secret, and a clear limit on the period of confidentiality.That means the government could keep far more information under the veil than is necessary, says Kiyoshi Gojima, deputy managing director of Sankei Shimbun, a newspaper.

Between 1999 and 2009 the combined circulation of morning and evening papers in Japan fell by just 6.3%, according to Nihon Shimbun Kyokai (NSK), the newspaper publishers' association.

Mr Abe's cabinet is the first in two-dozen years to have had rising approval rates for three straight months after taking office, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun, the country's biggest newspaper.