Tom Cruise & Aliens Influence Japan Politics

Tokyo
Correspondent

Edited by James M. Kelly
Tom Cruise, Aliens and Japan’s new first lady!

photo credit: Alan Light
Miyuki Hatoyama is not like any first lady to hit Japan: A divorcee, a previous actress, and an extrovert woman who demands parity from her husband. It’s the “outspoken” element that is giving unusual exposure for the soon-to-be Prime Minister of Japan.

In a book called “Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered,” Hatoyama indeed writes a very strange thing. She has written in her book that “she has been kidnapped by aliens, was taken to the planet Venus and met Hollywood actor Tom Cruise’ in past life when he was Japanese. She also stated “I know that I was with him in previous life. So, when I meet him and say, ‘Long time no see,’ he will understand what I mean. Isn’t it cool?”

Miyuki Hatoyama also describes that “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus. It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green.”

In an interview on a Japanese talk show, Hatoyama has made another bizarre claim, saying she “eats” the sun. “Like this, like this,” she said, gesturing as if eating something from the sky. “It makes me feel good and my husband does it too.”

Being famous for her unconventional attitude, these comments wouldn’t have got much attention if she wasn’t the wife of the world’s second largest economy. Japan, for now, appears more pleased than worried. The Japanese media is brushing off comments as weird but undisruptive.

YouTube, on which the clips of the Japanese talk show were divided, was overflowed with people writing comments like “crazy” to “who cares?”

Ministry of Foreign Affairs official like Tomohiko Taniguichi were seen giving comment calls on the first lady “fun for now.” “It’s actually helping her husband’s recognition,” says Taniguichi.