By Mariko Yasumoto
     Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has a political pedigree with a prime minister for a grandfather and a foreign minister for a father. But, with an academic background in engineering, he has often been seen more as a quiet scholar type than a person suited to the world of politics.

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