The head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Yukio Hatoyama, who will be named Prime Minister on Sep. 14 in the wake of his party having swept the Parliamentary elections on Aug. 30, is a follower of Europe’s founding advocate of an imperial European State, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, and an advocate of creating an EU-modeled single regional currency in Asia. Hotayama is a member of one of the wealthiest families in Japan, and the fourth generation of political leaders.
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