TOKYO, Japan - Miyuki Hatoyama is unlike any first lady to hit Japan: A divorcee, a former actress, and an outspoken woman who demands equality from her husband.

Local media call the soon-to-be premier 'the alien,' but it’s his wife who is making out of this world comments.

It’s the “outspoken” part that is generating some unusual press for the soon-to-be Prime Minister of Japan.

In a book called “Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered," Hatoyama indeed writes a very strange thing.

“While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus. It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green.”

In an interview on a Japanese talk show, Hatoyama makes another unearthly claim, saying she “eats” the sun.

“Like this, like this,” she said, gesturing as if eating something from the sky. “It makes me feel good and my husband does it too.”

Hatoyama also claims that she knew actor Tom Cruise. Not in this life, but in a prior life.

“I know Tom Cruise was Japanese in a previous life. I know that I was with him in the previous life. So, when I meet him and say, ‘Long time no see,’ he will understand what I mean. Isn’t it cool?”

These comments might be brushed off as an eccentric ex-actor’s musings if she didn’t have the ear of the most powerful man in the world’s second largest economy.

The DPJ, led by Yukio Hatoyama, pledges to shake up Japan’s politics, from economics to international relations.

Japan, for now, appears more amused than alarmed. While the Western press rants on about the odd ramblings of Mrs. Hatoyama, the Japanese press is brushing off the comments as peculiar but harmless.

Comments in YouTube under the clips from the Japanese talk show were divided, between people writing Mrs. Hatoyama was “crazy” to “who cares?”

Ex-Ministry of Foreign Affairs official Tomohiko Taniguichi calls the first lady “fun for now.”

“It’s actually helping her husband’s popularity,” says Taniguichi. “Whether a first lady who believes in UFOs affects world policies - we just have to wait and see.”

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