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...TOKYO) - Japan's newly empowered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers and start making good on promises to revive the world's second-largest economy after his party's historic trouncing of the ruling conservatives...
...Hatoyama, who also has signaled he wants to redefine Tokyo's diplomacy to make it less reliant on Washington, said in a victory speech late Sunday he would focus on a quick and smooth transition and make a priority of choosing the nation's next finance minister...
...took less than two hours to confirm a change that has been brewing for half a century. The polls for Japan's general election closed at 8 p.m. nationwide, and by 9:40 p.m. Yukio Hatoyama - head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and soon to be the nation's new Prime Minister - reacted to his party's landslide victory with characteristic reserve and calm. "It is important that we not be too proud and try hard to make this victory a victory for the public...
...Hatoyama's party, nevertheless, appears ready to meet the big challenges his new administration will face. With an economy in crisis, record unemployment and faltering welfare systems, the DPJ is already looking for all the help it can get. The party is expected to meet on Monday with the leftist Social Democratic Party and the conservative People's New Party to discuss the possibility of forming a coalition. As Hatoyama said Sunday night, "We have been fighting, thinking we have to change politics, and now we are about to realize it." The Japanese people have set the ball rolling...
...friend of a friend of mine is a member of al-Qaeda involved in a bombing in Bali.' KUNIO HATOYAMA, Japanese Justice Minister, who said the alleged terrorist had repeatedly entered Japan using "different passports and mustaches" in remarks defending a controversial proposal to fingerprint foreign visitors. He later clarified his statement, saying he did not know the man personally...