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R. Berry: Hatoyama was the Main Author of the Futenma Debacle

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Robert Berry

International negotiation is a tough discipline, where the line is thin between success and miserable failure.

Looking back at the handling of the Futenma dispute since the DPJ came to power, it is now clear that former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's mistakes, combined with some bad luck, led to the present challenge.

And although Prime Minister Naoto Kan has tried to downplay the Futenma issue in his first months in office, the ghost of Hatoyama's errors will continue to haunt Japanese p...

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