Does Hatoyama represent Change in Japan?

There's an interesting entry at Observing Japan regarding the current brouhaha over the Futenma issue. The author states in the article:

I am hesitant to declare this situation a crisis for the alliance because the Hatoyama government may already be moving in the direction of accommodation: Hatoyama has said that all options are on the table (including the agreement on hand), and has indicated that his government's plan will be forthcoming as early as next week. Foreign Minister Okada Katsuya has concluded that relocating Futenma's operations to Kadena is not an option. After visiting Guam, Defense Minister Kitazawa Toshimi — perhaps the leading defender of the status quo in the cabinet — concluded that relocating Futenma to Guam is not doable. The Hatoyama government is running out of alternatives to the 2006 agreement. Even the Social Democrats may be coming around: a senior member of her own party criticized SDPJ leader Fukushima Mizuho for suggesting that she could pull her party out of the government over the Futenma issue.

To me this merely shows how difficult it really is to change things. However, the author of article seems to see the problem mostly as a lack of leadership:

Hatoyama seems to have some idea of where he wants to take Japan, but he seems to have little idea how to go about it. Hatoyama strikes me as too much of a dreamer and not enough of a strategist.

I suppose. However, I see the problem as Hatoyama only having various vague slogans that he holds to, not any real ideology or philosophy. He's a politician after all. The DPJ won as a protest vote against the LDP. They made a lot of pie in the sky promises, but they didn't offer much more than that did they? You hear a lot about how they are shaking up the bureaucrats, but how many bureaucrats have been fired so far? Any? I imagine even here there will be back tracking.

By the way the comments at the article cited above are well worth reading.