Yukio Hatoyama, leader of Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), Japan's main opposition party, poses at a news conference after his party won the lower house election in Tokyo, on August 30. The DPJ secured 308 seats in the 480-seat House of Representatives, sweeping the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) out of almost unbroken power since 1955 to usher in a new era of Japanese politics. By winning the election, Yukio Hatoyama, 62, will become Japan's next Prime Minister (XINHUA/AFP) |