The former president of South Korea sat down with former Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama for a conversation about ties between ...

Japan's likely next prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, was in talks Monday to form a new government a day after his party's historic upset of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Hatoyama said he ...

Though politics is in his blood, Japan's opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama has had a long wait in the wings. While serving eight terms in the powerful lower house of parliament, he has never held a ...

Eight months ago, Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama was a star. His leftist Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had stormed to electoral victory, ousting a conservative party that had governed almost uninterrupted ...

As Japan's opposition leader, Yukio Hatoyama was a strong critic of what he called Tokyo's subservient position to Washington. But with his party now expected to take power, he is not likely to do ...

They stood in a smiling pose, two leaders locked in another international grip ‘n’ grin, pantomiming the deep ties between their countries. Later, at a press conference, it was more of the same, as if ...

A remote and charisma-challenged lawmaker who has never held high office is poised to become Japan’s new leader later this month. Yukio Hatoyama, 62, is head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama ended weeks of internal discontent about his leadership by announcing today that he would resign from office, a swift fall from grace for a politician who just ...

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, whose party swept away nearly half a century of rule by the sclerotic LDP, has tendered his resignation just eight months after his election. Like many of his ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama denied on Tuesday that an expected visit by a senior U.S. envoy had been canceled because of a row over the relocation of a Marine base. U.S.

A controversy stoked by Obama’s recent memoir gives causes to look back at a troubled relationship – and what could have been. President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan ...