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Hatoyama vows distance from US-style capitalism
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:31:59 GMT
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'.
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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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Just words ? Or the beginning of an interesting decade ?
A New Path for Japan By YUKIO HATOYAMA