I have been abducted by aliens, says Japan's first lady

[kpete]

I have been abducted by aliens, says Japan's first lady

(Oh, and she also knew Tom Cruise in a previous life)

By Peter Popham

Thursday, 3 September 2009


AP

Japan's new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, with his wife, Miyuki, in the early days of their marriage

Move over Michelle, watch your backs, Carla and Sarah. There's a new kid on the first lady block, and she looks like upstaging the lot of you.

Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of Japan's Prime Minister-elect, Yukio Hatoyama, is a lifestyle guru, a macrobiotics enthusiast, an author of cookery books, a retired actress, a divorcee, and a fearless clothes horse for garments of her own creation, including a skirt made from Hawaiian coffee sacks. But there is more, much more. She has travelled to the planet Venus. And she was once abducted by aliens.

The 62-year-old also knew Tom Cruise in a former incarnation – when he was Japanese – and is now looking forward to making a Hollywood movie with him. "I believe he'd get it if I said to him, 'Long time no see', when we meet," she said in a recent interview. But it is her claim in a book entitled "Very Strange Things I've Encountered" that she was abducted by aliens while she slept one night 20 years ago, that has suddenly drawn attention following last Sunday's poll.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-have-been-abducted-by-aliens-says-japans-first-lady-1780888.html

[undeterred]

1. Was Tom into Scientology when he was Japanese?

[me b zola]

2. Everything is relative

My country has been abducted by idiots. I would take Japan's first lady's aliens any day over the republicans here.

[gatorboy]

3. I think the hypocrisy over this story is hilarious.

The woman believes in aliens? What a weirdo!


Burning Bush that talks? Not a problem.

The Young Earth Creationists never got this much print!

[Dogtown]

5. Excellent reality check, gatorboy

:applause:

[pokercat999]

6. Aliens? Burning, talking bushes? Ok. Simulating the eating of

human flesh and the drinking of human blood.....not so much, ya just gotta draw a line.

[kristopher]

4. In spite of their image of conformity

Or perhaps as a result of the reality of the pressure to conform, the Japanese are extremely tolerant (even fond of) harmeless eccentricities. However, I'm sure the public nature of this is going to mortify them. At the 'kitchen table' level it will create a real state of dissonance in their values.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Was the trip to Venus before, or after, the kidnapping by aliens? nt

[Vidar]

8. As long as her husband isn't unduely influence, I don't see a problem.

I enjoy eccentrics.