そんな中で一つのキャストを担った鳩山由起夫氏の行動は不可解なものでした。
宇宙人と呼ばれる鳩山氏の本領発揮といったところなのかもしれませんが、そういえば鳩山夫人の鳩山幸さんが以前「私は誘拐されて金星に行った」と公言していたのを思い出します。
(Reuters) - Japan's next prime minister might be nicknamed "the alien," but it's his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world.
"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year.
"It was a very beautiful place and it was really green."
Yukio Hatoyama is due to be voted in as premier on September 16 following his party's crushing election victory over the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday.
Miyuki, 66, described the extraterrestrial experience, which she said took place some 20 years ago, in a book entitled "Very Strange Things I've Encountered."
When she awoke, Japan's next first lady wrote, she told her now ex-husband that she had just been to Venus. He advised her that it was probably just a dream.
"My current husband has a different way of thinking," she wrote. "He would surely say 'Oh, that's great'."
Yukio Hatoyama, 62, the rich grandson of a former prime minister, was once nicknamed "the alien" for his prominent eyes.
Miyuki, also known for her culinary skills, spent six years acting in the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theater group. She met the U.S.-educated Yukio while living in America.
(Reporting by Colin Parott; Editing by Linda Sieg)
上記は以前のロイター発信記事ですが、誘拐=アブダクションされて金星に行ったケースは他にもいくつかあります。
下記は16年前に出版した作品ですが、金星の都市と交通・工業・農業・環境・生活ぶりなどが詳細に記述されています。

『わたしは金星に行った!』
著者:サルバドール・ヴィジャヌエバ・メディナ
宇宙人鳩山由起夫氏がどのような読心術を使用したのでしょうかね。
宇宙人のテクノロジーからすれば現首相が辞任するのも、そう遠くはないとも考えられますが・・・。