鳩山氏は「感じ良いが厄介」　オバマ前米大統領回顧録

　【ワシントン時事】オバマ前米大統領は１７日発売の回顧録で、２００９年１１月に鳩山由紀夫首相（当時）と初会談したことに関し、「感じは良いが厄介な同僚だった」と指摘した。その上で、「３年弱で４人目の首相であり、日本を苦しめてきた硬直化し、目標の定まらない政治の症状だ」と酷評した。
　米軍普天間飛行場（沖縄県宜野湾市）移設問題で、鳩山氏が首脳会談で「トラスト・ミー（わたしを信じて）」と発言したにもかかわらず、移設先見直しの検討を決めたことなどにオバマ氏は不信感を持ったとされる。（2020/11/17-14:58）

Former U.S. President Barack Obama in his memoir to be released on Tuesday recalled then Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as being "pleasant if awkward" in their first bilateral summit held in November 2009.
   In his book, Obama said, "A pleasant if awkward fellow, Hatoyama was Japan's fourth prime minister in less than three years and the second since I'd taken office--a symptom of the sclerotic, aimless politics that had plagued Japan for much of the decade."
   Obama is believed to have grown distrustful of Hatoyama after the then prime minister started reviewing the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in Ginowan, in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa, to the Henoko coastal district in Nago, another city in the prefecture, despite telling the then U.S. president to trust him during their meeting. The relocation plan is based on a Japan-U.S. agreement.
   Hatoyama became Japan's prime minister in September 2009 after leading the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan to a landslide victory in the House of Representatives election in August that year.
The DPJ seized power from the Liberal Democratic Party.