The Japanese story (per link) is short but actually good. Slams Gibbs and their attitude, and also then, humorously so, gets into good detail for the Japanese people about Obama not being so wildly popular in the United States anymore.
No joke, this is the closing paragraph, written as if they are breaking the news to the Japanese slowly somehow that Icarus has fallen from the sky...which will surprise so many Japanese as they had this Obama out as a God for many months on end both in mainstream Japanese press and mainstream foreign press on which the Japan press often uncritically fed.
Folks, you cannot make this stuff up. They even mention right in the end that Barack Obama now seems to be avoiding the American Press, even more vigorously so than his predecessor, George W. Bush - due to Obama's plummeting public support. (Paraphrasing synopsis-wise in English from the original Japanese)
FRiends: Don't miss AmericanInTokyo's post #1 on this thread. (Sorry I'm a day late with this one)
Obama’s Outstanding Record of Dip-lunacy [several headlines and links]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2470815/posts?page=3
Venezuela’s Chavez ‘Still’ Smells Sulfur After Obama Speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410487/posts
Barack Obama too tired to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470378/posts
Yikes, what an underperforming affirmative-action trainee we have in the White House...
Someone needs to put up that Miss Me Now billboard in Tokoyo.