TOKYO–The wife of Japan's incoming prime minister Yukio Hatoyama is a lifestyle guru, a macrobiotics enthusiast, a cookbook author and a retired actress.
Miyuki Hatoyama also says she was abducted by aliens nearly 20 years ago and taken to Venus.
She wrote in Very Strange Things I've Encountered, a book published last year, that she visited another planet before she divorced her first husband.
"While my body was sleeping, I think my spirit flew on a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus," she wrote. "It was an extremely beautiful place and was very green."
Her husband at the time dismissed it as just a dream. "My current husband has a different way of thinking," she said. "He would surely say, `Oh, that's great!'"
Hatoyama, 66, said she also knew actor Tom Cruise in a former incarnation – she says he was Japanese in a previous life – and wants to make a 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.
Hatoyama has appeared on TV variety shows to discuss topics ranging from spirituality to politics, and became an important part of her husband's election campaign.
She performed a moonwalk while campaigning for a Democratic candidate last month, a Japanese newspaper reported.
Yukio Hatoyama, who heads the Democratic Party of Japan, will be installed as prime minister Sept. 16.
Hatoyama, 62, once said of his wife: "I feel relieved when I get home. She is like an energy-refuelling base."
From the Star's news services