Yukio hatoyama biography
Yukio Hatoyama
Prime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010
Yukio Hatoyama (鳩山 友紀夫, born 鳩山 由紀夫, Hatoyama Yukio, born 11 February 1947) is a Japanese retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and Leader of the Democratic Party of Japan from 2009 to 2010. He was the first Prime Minister from the modern Democratic Party of Japan.
First elected to the House of Representatives in 1986, Hatoyama became President of the DPJ, the main opposition party, in May 2009. He then led the party to victory in the 2009 general election, defeating the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had been in power for over a decade. He represented the Hokkaido 9th district in the House of Representatives from 1986 to 2012.
In 2012, Hatoyama announced his retirement from politics. Since then, he has made large online presence such as on Twitter with his outspoken political views. He generated controversy when he visited Crimea in 2015 and claimed that the annexation by the Russian Federation was constitutional and falsely claimed that Ukraine and NATO would launch a nuclear strike against Russia in 2023. Hatoyama took part in founding the minor Kyowa Party in 2020, but later left the party.
Early life and family
Hatoyama comes from a prominent Japanese political family which has been likened to the Kennedy family of the United States.
Hatoyama, who was born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, is a fourth-generation politician. His paternal great-grandfather, Kazuo Hatoyama, was speaker of the House of Representatives of the Diet of Japan from 1896 to 1897 during the Meiji era. Kazuo later served as the president of Waseda University. His paternal great-grandmother, Haruko Hatoyama, was a co-founder of what is known today as Kyoritsu Women's University. His paternal grandfather, Ichirō Hatoyama, was a major politician; he served as Prime Minister and was a founder and the f
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Yukio Hatoyama was educated as an engineer, earning a bachelor’s degree at the University of Tokyo (1969) and a doctorate at Stanford University (1976). He taught at Senshu University in Tokyo since 1981 and began his own political career as a member of the LDP, winning election in 1986 to the House of Representatives as a member from Hokkaido. In 1993, he left the LDP and took a position in the coalition government of Morihiro Hosokawa (founder of the reform Japan New Party), which lasted until 1994. Over the next few years, he joined the newly formed Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), serving as Co-Leader in 1996 and Deputy Secretary in 1997. He was Chairman from 1999 to 2002, Secretary-General from 2005 to 2009, and became President of DPJ from 2009. He was elected as Japan’s 93rd Prime Minister from September 2009 to June 2010. He also received the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation in 2011 as well as the Vietnam Friendship Medal in 2013. Yukio Hatoyama has been the President of the East Asian Community Institute (EACI) since May 2013. He also serves in various positions, such as President of the Japan Yuai Association, Honorary Advisor of the International Academic Society for Asian Community, and Supreme Advisor of the Japan-Russia Society.
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Yukio Hatoyama (yōō´kēō hätō´yämä), 1947–, Japanese politician, grad. Tokyo Univ. (B.S., 1969), Stanford (Ph.D, 1976). Though his grandfather was Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama and his father was foreign minister, he trained as an engineer and did not run for office until 1986, when he was first elected to the Diet. In 1993 he left the Liberal Democratic party (LDP), which his grandfather had cofounded, and served in a secondary cabinet post (1993–94) in a short-lived coalition government. Hatoyama cofounded the Democratic party of Japan (DPJ) in 1996, and later served as DPJ leader (1999–2002, 2009–10). In 2009, after the party's landslide win over the LDP, he became prime minister. He resigned as prime minister and DPJ leader in mid-2010 after he agreed, despite campaign promises to the contrary, to continue to permit the basing of U.S. forces on Okinawa. Naoto Kan succeeded him in both posts; Hatoyama retired from politics in 2012.