Japan's next Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, said on Thursday that he would not change the alliance with the United States. Credit...Junko Kimura/Getty Images TOKYO � Scrambling to mend fences with his country’s biggest ally, Japan’s next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, told President Obama and the United States ambassador on Thursday that the American alliance was the basis of Japanese foreign policy. In
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