Tokyo: Japan's usually cheerful and
sometimes quirky new first lady, Miyuki Hatoyama, shed tears on Wednesday as she watched her husband take over as prime minister.
"My was heart filled with emotion, it made me shed
tears," said the 66-year-old former actress who has made
headlines for once saying her soul had travelled by UFO to
Venus and that she met Tom Cruise in a past life.
"I was filled with deep emotion," as she watched
parliament elect Yukio Hatoyama as the country's new leader,
she said.
Yukio Hatoyama, 62, head of the centre-left Democratic
Party of Japan, was voted in by parliament two and a half
weeks after his party's stunning election victory changed the
country's political landscape.
Miyuki Hatoyama, a lifestyle guru who has been her
husband's chief stylist, said she chose his outfit -- a dark
suit with a golden striped tie and matching golden pocket
handkerchief -- to suggest the image of "a gold medal."
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 18:45