“Mr Hatoyama's wife, an author, has also been the subject of curiosity. She published a story in which she told how she had met Tom Cruise, the actor, in another life and also said in a television interview that she got her energy by "eating the sun."
Fashion faux pas costs Japanese PM popularity slump
A fashion faux pas by Yukio Hatoyama, the embattled Japanese prime minister, has caused his popularity to dive further in the polls.
Yukio Hatoyama donned a 1980s-style long-sleeved checked shirt designed in large blocks of red, blue, yellow, green and purple during a recent meet-the-people barbecue promoted as the "Real Hato Cafe".
The sartorial decision provoked a fierce attack from the fashion critic Don Konishi. He said: "This shirt comes from the '80s or '90s. His ideas and philosophy are old. Japan is facing a crisis and we can't overcome it with a prime minister like this.
The millionaire-PM scored a landslide election victory last year, but his poll ratings have since fallen into the low 20s due to a row over the unpopular US airbase on the island of Okinawa and criticism of his sometimes dithering, collegiate style.
Mr Hatoyama's wife, an author, has also been the subject of curiosity. She published a story in which she told how she had met Tom Cruise, the actor, in another life and also said in a television interview that she got her energy by "eating the sun."
To Konishi, the shirt was the final straw as he predicted the demise of Mr Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government.
"It seems the DPJ is over with this shirt," he said.
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