gap in the information flow is where a lot of people are putting their fear and it s breeding a lot of mistrust. nina? stan grant, thanks very much for that update there from our tokyo bureau. japan is getting some help on another front. for the first time in more than a decade, the group of seven nations has agreed to intervene to help japan slow down the rise of the yen. take a look at what s been happening to the dollar/yen movements so far today. on this graph, the higher the line, the weaker the yen. and the yen is, in fact, weakening. in fact, start here at 5:00 a.m. this morning when the yen was trading at about $78.87 and then three hours later, look at this, the time of the g-7 announcement, the yen weakened sharply. so when it goes up, that actually means the yen has weakened. right now, it s trading at about