A hand of a reporter is raised as Japan's main opposition Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama speaks to journalists during a news conference at the Democratic Party of Japan election headquaters in Tokyo August 31, 2009. Japanese voters swept the opposition to a historic victory in Sunday's election, exit polls showed, crushing the long-ruling conservative party and handing the novice Democrats the job of reviving a struggling economy. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN POLITICS ELECTIONS)