Japan's 'Change' Agenda by Fred Hiatt FROM The Washington Post

"In his essence, Hatoyama comes across as deeply conservative. He promises to hold back the forces of globalization and preserve the communitarian Japan of small shops, face-to-face neighborliness and humane decency. His guiding philosopher seems to be the half-Austrian, half-Japanese Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972)."