Thenewspaper had another aim on November10thwhen it published the transcript of a telephone call made by the primeministertothe mother of a soldierwho had diedinAfghanistan.
Just five weeks ago another former PrimeMinister Nawaz Sharif used almost exactly the same words, when he arrived in Islamabad on his way, as it turned out, to Riyadh.
But the jaded voter was offered another chance to chip away at the LDP when, on Sept. 27, PrimeMinister Hashimoto Ryutaro dissolved the House of Representatives and called a general election for Oct. 20.