Latest Yukio Hatoyama Stories  2009-09-01 07:15:42  The head of
the victorious Democratic Party of Japan downplayed his negative
pre-election comments on American-styled capitalism a day after
the election. In a widely circulated editorial written before
the vote, Yukio Hatoyama referred to capitalism as void of
morals or moderation. On Monday, after his opposition party won
308 seats in Japan's lower house, wrestling power from the
Liberal Democratic Party for only the second time since World
War II, Hatoyama said in a newspaper interview...  2009-08-31
22:44:30  Japan's newly elected DPJ government may not like
U.S.-style market-led reforms, but economists in Japan say more
of that may be needed to lift the economy. The Democratic Party
of Japan, which won a landslide victory in Sunday's election to
the lower house of parliament, and its leader Yukio Hatoyama had
campaigned on boosting social welfare and moving away from
excessive U.S.  2006-04-23 21:24:29  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's
beleaguered opposition D