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Yukio Hatoyama waves from his car in Tokyo, Aug. 29, 2009. |
Japan's new Premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama has vowed to pursue new politics that would take Tokyo away from the 'excesses of US-style capitalism'.
Hatoyama, 62, who is expected to announce a transition team on Monday, said that he wanted 'Japan to be more independent'.
The winner of Sunday's general elections emphasized that he would distance Japan from 'US diplomatic policies'.
The new Japanese new prime minister is said to be a strong critic of what he calls Tokyo's 'subservient position to Washington'.
His Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) made history on Sunday with an overwhelming victory in the election.
DPJ won 300 seats in the 480-seat lower house, ending half a century of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule.
Hatoyama had regularly criticized the pro-US ruling party for joining in refueling operations in the Indian Ocean in support of the US-led forces in Afghanistan.
He has also insisted that his DJP party will question the role of thousands of US troops deployed throughout Japan under a post World War II security pact.
Hatoyama wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times last week, noting that US hegemony was coming to an end in different parts of the world.
"As a result of the failure of the Iraq war and the financial crisis, the era of US-led globalism is coming to an end," Hatoyama wrote.
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Hatoyama, 62, who is expected to announce a transition team on Monday, said that he wanted 'Japan to be more independent'.
The winner of Sunday's general elections emphasized that he would distance Japan from 'US diplomatic policies'.
The new Japanese new prime minister is said to be a strong critic of what he calls Tokyo's 'subservient position to Washington'.
His Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) made history on Sunday with an overwhelming victory in the election.
DPJ won 300 seats in the 480-seat lower house, ending half a century of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule.
Hatoyama had regularly criticized the pro-US ruling party for joining in refueling operations in the Indian Ocean in support of the US-led forces in Afghanistan.
He has also insisted that his DJP party will question the role of thousands of US troops deployed throughout Japan under a post World War II security pact.
Hatoyama wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times last week, noting that US hegemony was coming to an end in different parts of the world.
"As a result of the failure of the Iraq war and the financial crisis, the era of US-led globalism is coming to an end," Hatoyama wrote.
JR/SME/MMA
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