More than 90 percent of respondents to The Japan Times Readership Survey conducted in July rated our paper's news coverage favorably, both domestic and foreign.

Some 74 percent rated our domestic news coverage "good" and 17 percent "excellent." For international news coverage, 59 percent responded that it was "good" while 29 percent replied "excellent."

However, about 10 percent of the respondents said they are not satisfied with our news coverage -- 10.6 percent were not satisfied with the foreign news coverage and 7.5 percent were not satisfied with domestic news coverage.