Hatoyama vows emphasis on U.S. alliance in address to cadets

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama delivers a speech at a graduation ceremony for the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 22, 2010. He told Self-Defense Force cadets his six-month-old government has ''unshakably'' inherited Japan's traditional security policy centered on its alliance with the United States.

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