Alien encounter ...Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of the new Japanese PM, claims she has been to Venus and it is beautiful and green / AP
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- Miyuki Hatoyama says her soul rode on UFO
- New PM's wife 'went to Venus'
- Says it was beautiful and green
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.
Ms Hatoyama, 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.
Ms Hatoyama, 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.