TOKYO - OCTOBER 26: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama delivers a policy speech during the 173rd Extraordinary Diet Session at the Lower House on October 26, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese government will bring 12 bills including measures to combat the H1N1 Influenza and to freeze the sale of shares in Japan Post Holdings Co. during the 36-day session. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

TOKYO - OCTOBER 26: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama delivers a policy speech during the 173rd Extraordinary Diet Session at the Lower House on October 26, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese government will bring 12 bills including measures to combat the H1N1 Influenza and to freeze the sale of shares in Japan Post Holdings Co. during the 36-day session.

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  1. Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) shakes hands with Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) after Hatoyama's first policy speech at the Diet in Tokyo on October 26 , 2009. Hatoyama launched a broadside against the excesses of capitalism, in his first parliamentary address since taking office last month. At left is Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada.
  2. Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) is welcomed by his Thai counterpart Abhisit Vejjajiva (R) upon his arrival for the the East Asia Summit meeting during the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in the southern Thai resort town of Hua Hin on October 25, 2009. Japan's new Prime Minister Hatoyama pressed plans for a new East Asian community at a summit on October 24, saying that the region should aspire to lead the world.
  3. Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) is welcomed by his Thai counterpart Abhisit Vejjajiva (R) upon his arrival for the the East Asia Summit meeting during the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in the southern Thai resort town of Hua Hin on October 25, 2009. Japan's new Prime Minister Hatoyama pressed plans for a new East Asian community at a summit on October 24, saying that the region should aspire to lead the world.
  4. Japanese Pime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) is welcomed by his Thai counterpart Abhisit Vejjajiva (L) upon his arrival for the Gala Dinner in the southern Thai resort town of Hua Hin on October 24, 2009. Prime Minister Hatoyama is here to attend the Southeastan Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit meeting.
  5. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, left, accompanied by Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, center, is greeted by a Diet guard upon arriving for a ceremonial opening of the extraordinary Diet session by Emperor Akihito at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Japan's new, largely untested Cabinet is starting out with high public approval ratings amid hopes that Hatoyama's government will reinvigorate the world's second-largest economy, polls showed Friday.
  6. New Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (C) and his cabinet members pose for photographers after the first cabinet meeting at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on September 16, 2009. Also seen are Financial Affairs and Postal Reform Minister Shizuka Kamei (L), Vice Prime Minister Naoto Kan (2nd L), Consumer Affairs and Gender Equality Minister Mizuho Fukushima (2nd R) and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (R). The centre-left Prime Minister Hatoyama acclaimed a turning point in history September 16 as he took command of Asia's biggest economy with a pledge to return power to the people.
  7. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama arrives at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Longtime opposition leader Hatoyama was elected prime minister Wednesday, promising to reinvigorate Japan's economy and shake up government with his left-of-center party after more than 50 years of nearly unbroken rule by conservatives.
  8. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, center, arrives at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Longtime opposition leader Hatoyama was elected prime minister Wednesday, promising to reinvigorate Japan's economy and shake up government with his left-of-center party after more than 50 years of nearly unbroken rule by conservatives.
  9. Miyuki Hatoyama (C) , wife of the new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, looks at her husband being applauded by colleagues after being elected as Japan's new prime minister at the Lower House of Parliament in Tokyo September 16, 2009. New Japanese leader Hatoyama will take office and finalise his cabinet on Wednesday, putting in place an untested line-up to tackle challenges ranging from restoring economic growth to managing ties with nervous ally Washington.
  10. TOKYO - SEPTEMBER 14: (JAPANESE Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) President and incoming Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) and outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso hold a meeting at the Diet building on September 14, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting is to discuss the smooth handover of power when Hatoyama is elected as the 93rd Prime Minister of Japan on September 16.
  11. TOKYO - SEPTEMBER 14: (JAPANESE Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) President and incoming Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) and outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso hold a meeting at the Diet building on September 14, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting is to discuss the smooth handover of power when Hatoyama is elected as the 93rd Prime Minister of Japan on September 16.
  12. Japan's incoming prime minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) speaks to reporters at his Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo September 14, 2009. Hatoyama said he would begin forming his cabinet after meeting with Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers on Tuesday.
  13. Japanese Pime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (2nd R) and his wife Miyuki (R) are welcomed by his Thai counterpart Abhisit Vejjajiva (2nd L) and his wife Pimpen (L) upon his arrival for the Gala Dinner in the southern Thai resort town of Hua Hin on October 24, 2009. Prime Minister Hatoyama is here to attend the Southeastan Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit meeting.
  14. Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (5-L) link hands with ASEAN leaders during group shot before the ASEAN-Japan meeting at the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, in the seaside town of Hua Hin, some 190 km (118 miles) south of Bangkok, October 24, 2009. From (L-R) are Laos Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, Myanmar's Thein Sein, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong, Hatoyama, Thailand's Abhisit Vejjajiva, Vietnam's Nguyen Tan Dung, Malaysia's Najib Razak, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodia's Hun Sen, and ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan.
  15. Miyuki Hatoyama (R), the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama smiles as she presents her book, 'Welcome to Hatoyama restaurant' to Japanese Nationality Room Committee Chairperson Kumiko Lancet (L) while visiting the Japanese Nationality Room in the University of Pittsburgh, on September 25.
  16. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, front row third from left, and his Cabinet members look on as an imperial palace official arranges position for a group photo session after an installation ceremony for Hatoyama's Cabinet at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Others in the front row from left are: Population, Consumer Affairs, Gender Equality and Food Safety Minister Mizuho Fukushima, National Strategy Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Hatoyama, Postal and Financial Minister Shizuka Kamei, National Public Safety Commission Chairman Hiroshi Nakai and Justice Minister Keiko Chiba.

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