Sep 3, 2009 11:35 am US/Eastern
Japan's New First Lady Claims Alien Abduction
Miyuki Hatoyama Also Says She Knew Tom Cruise In Former Life
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Yukio Hatoyama, right, and his wife Miyuki smile for the media after casting their absentee votes on Aug. 26, 2009, at a polling station in Tokyo, Japan.
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The wife of Japan's new prime minister revealed in a TV program earlier this year that she has visited Venus in the the 70s and once knew Tom Cruise in a former life.
Miyuki Hatoyama, a former actress and wife of Yukio Hatoyama, who will likely be sworn in as Japan's prime minister on Sept. 16, promises to become one of Japan's most colorful first ladies ever.
"I have a dream that I still believe will come true, which is to make a film in Hollywood," Hatoyama told a TV talk show in May. "The lead actor is Tom Cruise, of course. Why? Because I know he was Japanese in a previous life.
"I was with him then. So he would recognize me when I see him and say 'long time, no see!'" she said, though cautioned the program's young interviewer not to take her seriously.
Cruise starred in the 2003 film "The Last Samurai," which was set in Japan.
"I also eat the sun," Hatoyama said on the program, looking up with her eyes closed, raising her arms high as if she was tearing pieces off an imaginary sun. "Like this, hum, hum, hum. It gives me enormous energy."
"My husband has recently started doing that too," said the 66-year-old Hatoyama, who was born to Japanese parents in Shanghai and met her husband in the United States where he was a Ph.D student at Stanford.
The Democratic Party of Japan, which her husband heads, scored a sweeping victory in Sunday's elections for the 480-seat lower house of parliament, winning 308 seats and ending the ruling party's virtually uninterrupted more than half-century domination of government.
His party's majority means he is a shoo-in to be the next prime minister.
Miyuki Hatoyama, a former actress, dancer and singer in the hugely popular Takarazuka Revue all-female theater group, wrote in a book published last year about her surrealistic space trip about 20 years ago.
"While my body was sleeping, I think my spirit flew on a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus," she said in the book called "Most Bizarre Things I've Encountered," according to an Internet bookstore bk1, which quoted the passage from the book.
"While my body was sleeping, I think my spirit flew on a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus," she said, according to British publication the
Times Online. "It was an extremely beautiful place and was very green."
The book is a compilation of interviews with 26 prominent people, including writers, scholars and culinary experts revealing their strange or spiritual experiences, originally published in her "Miracle Interview" column in the monthly spiritual magazine "Mu."
She is also known for her healthy cooking and has published several books, including "Miyuki Hatoyama's Spiritual Food." She is also in charge of making her husband look presentable and healthy.
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