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A. R. Malik: Hatoyama Was Popular with the Foreign Community

Saturday, June 5, 2010

A. R. Malik

Tokyo -- The "Kennedy of Japan" could not stay much more than eight months in office. The Japanese nation has thus installed its fifth Prime Minister in about four years.

It is no surprise that the once-popular Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of the center-left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) resigned, taking with him DPJ Secretary-General Ichiro Ozawa, the party's kingpin.

While stepping down, Hatoyama himself accepted the reality of his policy failures.

There are number for reasons...

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