Revisiting the Obama-Hatoyama Relationship
A controversy stoked by Obama’s recent memoir gives causes to look back at a troubled relationship – and what could have been.
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January 12, 2021
President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan during a working dinner for Heads of Delegation at the Nuclear Security Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., April 12, 2010.
Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama’s reference to former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in his new book was grossly, and perhaps intentionally, misinterpreted in Japan. It was the latest in a series of unfair criticisms from U.S. and Japanese opponents who did not want Hatoyama to succeed while he was in office and who still seem determined to prevent a fair assessment of the man and what he hoped to accomplish.
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