Japan's next PM meets Asian ambassadors

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TOKYO, Sept 4 (AFP): Japan's incoming prime minister met Friday the ambassadors of China and South Korea as his party looks to promote regional ties and its long-term aim of an Asian community.
Yukio Hatoyama -- the leader of the centre-left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which ousted the conservative government in a sweeping election victory Sunday -- also vowed a more muscular foreign policy.
"It's been said that Japanese diplomacy is quite weak in multilateral talks," he told a Tokyo conference before meeting the Asian envoys.
"We should not have that reputation during the DPJ's diplomacy. We want to contribute to Japan's national interest and to world prosperity through cooperation between politicians, bureaucrats and the private sector."