The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Kishida Cabinet's approval rating at 55.9%, down 4.1 points: Kyodo pollTOKYO - The approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stood at 55.9 percent, down 4.1 points from the previous survey in December, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday, as Japan grapples with recent surges in COVID-19 infections driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.The two-day telephone survey through Sunday found the disapproval rate was up 2.5 points to 25.2 percent and also showed that 89.7 percent pl…READ FULL ARTICLE