My guess is that he's already left Dalian.

With the selections drawing near, intense speculation about the candidates filled Web sites and cable news talk shows -- to the delight of both campaign staffs.

But even if we never find that smoking pig, we can surmise that this is probably where it came from.

That election must be held by 2013, although speculation has intensified that the prime minister will call an early poll for later this year or early next.

The only way to guess how he will fight is to know how all Japs fight.