By J. Berkshire Miller
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is determined to break the impasse over Iran. But does Japan’s government welcome his initiative?
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, a key advisor on the current government’s foreign policy, is in Tehran this week, and is holding talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But it’s not a popular trip with some of his colleagues.
Hatoyama was prime minister for less than a year before being forced out of office in June 2010, and ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) colleagues including Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba have urged the mercurial former premier to “act prudently so as not to result in dual diplomacy that would be different from the government’s policy.”
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