<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/043d9beb-7369-4484-887b-9e0d00e288ba/DB5637A4-C82A-4EDE-8C3A-EE93BB1FAF11/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/asia/06hatoyama.html?_r=1#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/asia/06hatoyama.html?_r=1#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/asia/06hatoyama.html?_r=1#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> A Political Puzzle Also Known as ‘Space Alien’ Is in Line to Lead Japan </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/asia/06hatoyama.html?_r=1#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/EEB86070-D847-4CE2-A596-B6B620DDB7F4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/asia/06hatoyama.html?_r=1#"><P>TOKYO — <A title="More news and information about Japan." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/japan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Japan</A>’s presumptive next leader, <A title="More articles about Yukio Hatoyama." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/yukio_hatoyama/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Yukio Hatoyama</A>, is a perplexing political figure: a bushy-haired management professor turned stern-faced prophet of change, a critic of American-led globalization who admires <A title="More articles about John Fitzgerald Kennedy." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/john_fitzgerald_kennedy/index.html?inline=nyt-per">John F. Kennedy</A>, a scion of privilege whose nickname is Space Alien, a political blueblood who overturned his country’s postwar political order.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/asia/06hatoyama.html?_r=1#"><P>Since his <A title="Democratic Party (Japan) Web site (English version)" href="http://www.dpj.or.jp/english/">Democratic Party</A> routed Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democrats last Sunday, Mr. Hatoyama, 62, has added to the enigma by saying little about what he will actually do once he becomes prime minister, as is expected on Sept. 16. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/asia/06hatoyama.html?_r=1#"><P>It also remains far from clear what kind of leader he would become, and whether he will have what it takes to lift the Asian economic giant out of its deep slump.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DB5637A4-C82A-4EDE-8C3A-EE93BB1FAF11/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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