United States President Barack Obama's eight-day trip to four Asian countries, starting in Japan on Friday, comes at a time of significant changes and growing anxiety about what appears to be an increasingly marginalized US role in the region.
America's traditional alliances are under significant strain. The Yukio Hatoyama administration came into power after his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) unseated the long-time ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in August's elections.
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