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...interview with Aera, she recalled the time when Hatoyama first won public office, in 1986 to represent a constituency in the northern island of Hokkaido: "People seemed surprised to see flashy clothes and shoes, but I don't like to change myself." Indeed, she has her own flair when it comes to fashion: from a jacket made with her husband's old ties cut and sewn at the cuffs and hemline; to a hemp sackskirt of her own design. When she and her husband cast their votes on Aug. 26, he wore a suit, she wore jeans. (See the fashion...
...final tariff reductions of an FTA signed in 2004 into full effect by 2010. More deals are likely. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has made his policy priority reaching a comprehensive economic framework with China that would reduce tariffs on Taiwan goods entering the Chinese market. Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's presumptive Prime Minister, has even proposed the creation of a common Asian currency...
After last week's momentous Japanese election, both American and Japanese commentators picked up a comment by Prime-Minister-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama that there needed to be more "balance" in the U.S.-Japan relationship, read an article in which Hatoyama had been critical of the U.S., and wondered if the solidity of the long alliance between Japan and the US was about to go soggy. Then Hatoyama called President Barack Obama and told him that of course - of course! - the alliance was the bedrock of Japanese foreign policy, and everyone relaxed. Picking on the U.S., it seemed, was just...
...first place, the DPJ's interest in finding a new balance to the alliance - for which read, a situation in which Japan is less automatically subservient to the U.S. - is not just a matter of Hatoyama's speeches. Ichiro Ozawa, the veteran politician man who cobbled the DPJ together and who is bound to influence policy as the party's general-secretary, has argued for decades that Japan should be a "normal" country, with its own foreign and domestic policy priorities, set in relation to its own interests...
Second, the article by Hatoyama that caused so much fuss - initially published in The Voice, a Tokyo monthly, and (in shorter version) on the website of The New York Times and International Herald Tribune - does not read like some little op-ed casually dashed off by a summer intern. It is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and quite radical analysis of how globalization and the financial crisis have changed the landscape in which Japan and the U.S. find themselves...