Japan's Hatoyama, U.S. envoy talk shared interests

2009/09/03 08:26:58 @Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new leader and Washington's envoy bonded over a football helmet on Thursday as they sought to allay concerns about their alliance after an election win by Yukio Hatoyama's party, which has pledged a more independent diplomatic course. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=vKMnMjmO6Gg:zYJoM3sj8W0:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=vKMnMjmO6Gg:zYJoM3sj8W0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=vKMnMjmO6Gg:zYJoM3sj8W0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=vKMnMjmO6Gg:zYJoM3sj8W0:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=vKMnMjmO6Gg:zYJoM3sj8W0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/vKMnMjmO6Gg" height="1" width="1"/
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