TOKYO — Yukio Hatoyama, who led his party to a landmark victory in elections last month, took office as prime minister and named a cabinet of loyal allies on Wednesday, promising to bring change to a country mired in stagnation after a half-century of virtually uninterrupted, one-party rule. Mr. Hatoyama has said the Democratic Party will reverse Japan’s long economic malaise, increasing social benefits and aligning policies more closely with the public’s needs rather than those of big business or the country’s bureaucrats. He has also spoken of redefining Japan’s relationship with the United States, its closest ally. “I am trembling with deep emotion over this moment of historical change, while at theWildwood Free Trail 90 same time I know I have taken on an immense responsibility,” Mr. Hatoyama said at a news conference. “We are entering the realm of the unknown.” Mr. Hatoyama, 62, is a management professor with a doctorate in engineering from Stanford; a critic of globalization; a political scion who cast out Japan’s postwar political order with a decisive victory over the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party. He inherits an economy that is emerging from its deepest recession in decades, brought on by a collapse in the country’s mainstay exports amid the global economic crisis. He must also deal with debt approaching twice the size of its gross domestic product, a legacy of years of government spending on public works projects that fueled the politics of the departing Liberal Democrats. Unemployment is at a record high of 5.7 percent, while the cost of supporting a rapidly aging population is threatening the country’s public finances. Blaming years of mismanagement by bureaucrats for Japan’s woes, Mr. Hatoyama has made reining in their power a major goal. His rhetoric struck a chord with voters demoralized after decades of insider-driven politics and wasteful spending. The Democrats also promise to redistribute more funds directly to the Nike jordan 4 country’s struggling households, and build a stronger social safety net. They hope that more economic security will spur consumer spending, and wean Japan off its dependence on exports for economic growth. “First and foremost, we will engage in policies that will boost household incomes,” Mr. Hatoyama said. “We will realize a world where politics does not rely on bureaucrats.” The cabinet Mr. Hatoyama picked reflects those goals. Hirohisa Fujii, Japan’s new finance minister, is a Finance Ministry bureaucrat-turned-politician likely to play an important role in efforts to control the bureaucracy and rein in spending. He served as finance minister for a coalition government in the mid-1990s, when the Liberal Democrats briefly lost power. Mr. Fujii will be joined in his task by the Air jordan IIIdeputy prime minister, Naoto Kan, 62, a founder of the Democratic Party who will lead a new agency called the National Strategy Bureau. Mr. Kan will take on tasks once carried out by the bureaucracy, including drawing up national budgets and filling top bureaucratic posts. Mr. Kan, a former activist, lawyer and lawmaker, has a record of battling bureaucrats, most famously over a government cover-up of tainted blood products that caused hundreds of hemophilia patients to contract the AIDS virus. Critics say the Democrats, who swept into office with 308 out of 490 Parliament seats, lack a coherent growth strategy. “The Democratic Party is still trying to figure out how best it should engage with the global economy,” said Izuru Makihara, a politics professor at Tohoku University. “They say they will overhaul current policy, but it’s not clear what they will replace it with.” In his cabinet lineup, Mr. Hatoyama also accommodated the Democrats’ two coalition partners — the Social Democratic Party and the People’s New Party, a conservative splinter group. Those parties, with anti-free-market platforms, are expected to push the Democrats to reverse many of the pro-market reforms championed by the former prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi. The Democrats’ election platform also called for a re-examination of Tokyo’s ties with Washington, including theJordan 3 shoes presence of 50,000 American service members in Japan. But Mr. Hatoyama’s choice of foreign minister, the 56-year-old moderate Katsuya Okada, signals that Japan’s pro-American foreign policy will not drastically change.

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