Japan's next prime minister might be nicknamed the alien, but
it's his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another
world.
"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a
triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife
of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published
last year.
"It was a very beautiful place and it was really green."
Yukio Hatoyama is due to be voted in as premier on September 16
following his party's
crushing election victory over the long-ruling Liberal
Democratic Party on Sunday.
Miyuki, 66, described the extraterrestrial experience, which she
said took place some 20 years ago, in a book entitled Very Strange
Things I've Encountered.
When she awoke, Japan's next first lady wrote, she told her now
ex-husband that she had just been to Venus.
He advised her that it was probably just a dream.
"My current husband has a different way of thinking," she wrote.
"He would surely say 'Oh, that's great'."
Yukio Hatoyama, 62, the rich grandson of a former prime minister,
was once nicknamed the alien for his prominent eyes.
Miyuki, also known for her culinary skills, spent six years acting
in the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theatre group.
She met the US-educated Yukio while living in America.
