Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) chats with Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano (R) during the Lower House's budget committee session at the National Diet in Tokyo on November 4, 2009. Plans have been scrapped for a Washington meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Okinawa issue. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) chats with Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano (R) during the Lower House's budget committee session at the National Diet in Tokyo on November 4, 2009. Plans have been scrapped for a Washington meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Okinawa issue.

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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. 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.
  7. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada attends a Diet session in Tokyo on October 26, 2009. Japan's Emperor Akihito should be able to speak his mind rather than read from a bureaucrat's prepared script when he next opens parliament, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada suggested on October 23. The 75-year-old opens sessions of the Diet legislature, but his prepared messages have been almost identical every time, Okada told reporters later, acknowledging that Akihito under the constitution must steer clear of politics.
  8. U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth speaks to the media at a hotel entrance in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. Bosworth met with reporters a day after his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo following his trip to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
  9. A TV crewman reports on U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth as he speaks at a hotel entrance in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. Bosworth met with reporters a day after his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo following his trip to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
  10. U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth, left, speaks to the media at a hotel entrance in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. Bosworth met with reporters a day after his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo following his trip to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
  11. U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth speaks to the media at a hotel entrance in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. Bosworth met with reporters a day after his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo following his trip to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
  12. U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth, right, and Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, left, look on during their meeting at the foreign ministry in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. Bosworth is in Japan to brief his recent talks with North Korean officials about resuming negotiations on its nuclear disarmament.
  13. BEIJING - NOVEMBER 18: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (2nd R) reacts during a breakfast meeting with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo (2nd L) held at a hotel November 18, 2009 in Beijing, China. U.S. President Barack Obama is on an official nine-day, four nation, Asia tour during which he has visited Japan and attended the APEC Summit in Singapore before heading to China. Following his visit to China, where he is expected to discuss the economy, trade and climate change, he will head to South Korea.
  14. BEIJING - NOVEMBER 18: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham (C) arrives at a breakfast meeting with Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo, (unseen) at a hotel November 18, 2009 in Beijing, China. U.S. President Barack Obama is on an official nine-day, four nation, Asia tour during which he has visited Japan and attended the APEC Summit in Singapore before heading to China. Following his visit to China, where he is expected to discuss the economy, trade and climate change, he will head to South Korea.
  15. BEIJING - NOVEMBER 18: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (L) is shown to a breakfast meeting by Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo at a hotel November 18, 2009 in Beijing, China. U.S. President Barack Obama is on an official nine-day, four nation, Asia tour during which he has visited Japan and attended the APEC Summit in Singapore before heading to China. Following his visit to China, where he is expected to discuss the economy, trade and climate change, he will head to South Korea.
  16. BEIJING - NOVEMBER 18: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks near U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell (L) during a breakfast meeting with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo at a hotel November 18, 2009 in Beijing, China. U.S. President Barack Obama is on an official nine-day, four nation, Asia tour during which he has visited Japan and attended the APEC Summit in Singapore before heading to China. Following his visit to China, where he is expected to discuss the economy, trade and climate change, he will head to South Korea.

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