However, if he manages to divorce Japanese and US foreign policy in the meantime, then a precedent will have been set. The next PM might be of a hawkish nature on defense matters. Perhaps he'd want an independent nuclear deterrent, for example.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but that has got be on the minds of her neighbors.
Not only he IS a bit of a fruitcake, so is his wife who thinks she was abducted by aliens.