THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
LDP President Shinzo Abe watches Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba talk at a meeting of senior officials at the party's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on Nov. 22. (Satoru Semba)
The No. 2 man in the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party questioned party leader Shinzo Abe's boasts that his words alone have weakened the yen, lifted stock prices and buoyed the Japanese economy.