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awesomeness: Japanese First Lady Edition

Chris Dierkes September 29, 2009

From a profile of Miyuki Hatoyama (wife of new Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama) in Time by Glen Levy:

Miyuki, an inspirational speaker and former actress, is literally out of this world. She has recently written a book in which she revealed that her soul has traveled via UFO to Venus — a planet she described as “an extremely beautiful place” and “very green.” She also confessed to eating the sun (“Like this: yum, yum, yum. It gives me enormous energy”) and hanging out with Tom Cruise (in a previous life, when Cruise was apparently Japanese).

My only critique of Levy is what’s with this “apparently Japanese” former life of Tom Cruise—uh, hello he wasn’t Japanese, he was a white man living in Japan who became a samurai warrior, there’s even documentary evidence: remember this?

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