I suddenly love these two

[moonwise]

TRIPS TO VENUS SHAKE UP WOMEN’S ROLE IN JAPAN

[Miyuki] Hatoyama is used to being center stage, having once been an actress and singer with the Takarazuka Revue, an hugely popular all-female musical theater. She performed with them in the 1960s before heading to California with her first husband, who had a restaurant there. That's where she met Yukio Hatoyama, now Japan’s prime minister, who was studying engineering at Stanford.

What also seems to have shocked Japan, but in a positive way, is the first couple’s public intimacy, something rarely seen here. They praise each other openly in public, walk hand-in-hand, and actually look like they care.

"She blow-dries his hair in the morning, chooses his necktie, and that’s how they start the day," said Yamano. "I think that’s wonderful."

She seems to have transformed her husband’s previously rather humdrum image.

Comments

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's really sweet! Hatoyama may be somewhat loopy, but I have to admit I find her kind of endearing.

(Especially since someone dug up a photo for her page on the Takarazuka wiki. Traditional kimono + 1960s hairdo = adorable.)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

She's nuts, but as gojiraeight once pointed out, it's a harmless and funny kind of nuts.

Fun photo!