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Thu, 09/17/2009 - 08:30
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PROFILE: Mrs. Hatoyama the most colorful first lady Japan has produced+

TOKYO, Sept. 16 Kyodo - Miyuki Hatoyama is undoubtedly the most colorful and individual first lady Japan has ever produced.

The 66-year-old wife of the newly elected prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, has
already made headlines overseas since her husband's Democratic Party of Japan
achieved a landslide victory in last month's election for past remarks that
while she was asleep her spirit ''went to and came back from Venus aboard a
triangle-shaped UFO about 20 years ago.''
''It was an extremely beautiful place with lots of greenery,'' the former
actress said in a book published last year, recalling her ''visit'' to the
planet.
When she woke up, she told her husband that she had just been to Venus, only to
be told she might just have had a dream.
''My husband would say something different if he were asked now. He would
surely say, 'Oh, good for you!''' Mrs. Hatoyama said in the book, hinting at
the inner change that has occurred in the DPJ president over the years he spent
with her.
It is well known that when the two met, she was married. ''He says he has
chosen me from all the women, not just single women,'' she said.
Her 62-year-old husband said in the same book, which is a collection of his and
23 other celebrities' accounts on their bizarre experiences, ''My life after I
met my wife has been much more changeful and interesting than before'' and that
he is grateful for that.
The prime minister said the most unaccountable experience he ever had was his
encounter with his wife.
Miyuki Hatoyama belonged to the Takarazuka Revue all-women theater play troupe
for six years before going to the United States in her mid-20s, where she met
Yukio Hatoyama, who was studying at Stanford and later became her second
husband.
During an interview with Kyodo News shortly after the Aug. 30 general election,
she said she was looking forward to meeting Michelle Obama, U.S. President
Barack Obama's wife, as she believes they share ''sensibility.''
The Hatoyamas have a son, Kiichiro, 33, an urban engineering researcher who
lectures at Moscow State University.
==Kyodo
2009-09-16 22:50:32



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