Inside Japan - Panasonic orders families return home on Flu fears

Support for Japan's PM falls to new lows

TOKYO (AP) – Panasonic Corp. said Tuesday it has ordered families of its Japanese overseas employees to return home from countries that may be at risk of an influenza pandemic.

TOKYO (AP) -- Approval ratings for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's Cabinet hit a new low in a newspaper poll Tuesday, marking the worst level of support for the government in nearly a decade and raising concerns the unpopular leader may face a revolt from within his ruling party.
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Expoland to close 21 months after fatal roller coaster accident

The employees will stay, but families of those working in China, Asia excluding Singapore, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and South America, were ordered in December last year to return to Japan by the end of September, spokesman Akira Kadota said.
The Osaka-based company is not disclosing the number of the affected families or the employees. Panasonic, the world's biggest maker of plasma TVs, last week said it was cutting 15,000 employees from its work force over the next year and forecast its first annual net loss in six years.

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The Expoland amusement park in Osaka Prefecture said Tuesday it will end its 37-year history in large debts due to a decline in the number of visitors following a fatal roller coaster accident in May 2007. (AP / KYODO)
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Support for Japan's PM falls to new lows

Expoland to close 21 months after fatal

roller coaster disaster

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