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Hatoyama (written: 鳩山, lit. ''dove mountain'') may refer to: People with the surname * Hatoyama family, a prominent Japanese political family **Kazuo Hatoyama (1856–1911), academic and politician **Haruko Hatoyama (1861–1938), educator and political matriarch **Ichirō Hatoyama (1883–1959), politician and Prime Minister of Japan **Hideo Hatoyama (1884–1946), Japanese jurist **Kaoru Hatoyama (1888–1982), educator, administrator, and wife of Prime Minister Ichirō Hatoyama **Iichirō Hatoyama (1918–1993), politician and diplomat **Yasuko Hatoyama (1922–2013), wife of Iichirō, and mother of Kazuko, Yukio and Kunio **Yukio Hatoyama (born 1947), politician and Prime Minister of Japan **Kunio Hatoyama (1948–2016), politician ** Emily Hatoyama (born 1955), Japanese actor and model Other uses * Hatoyama, Saitama (鳩山町; -machi), a town in Japan See also * Liberal Party–Hatoyama The Liberal Party–Hatoyama ( ja, 鳩山自由党 (分派自由党)) was a politica ...
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Hatoyama Family
The Hatoyama family is a prominent Japanese political family which has been called "Japan's Kennedy family." Ichirō Hatoyama and Yukio Hatoyama served as a Prime Minister of Japan The prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of Stat ... from 1954 to 1956 and from 2009 to 2010, respectively. Family tree References {{Japan-politician-stub ...
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Kazuo Hatoyama
was the patriarchal head of the prominent Japanese Hatoyama political family which has been called "Japan's Kennedy family." Early life and education Hatoyama was born to a samurai family of the Katsuyama clan in present-day Minato, Tokyo. He graduated from the Tokyo Kaisei School in 1875. He was selected for a government-sponsored study abroad program and attended Columbia University (B.L., 1877) and Yale University Law School (M.L., 1878; D.C.L., 1880). Career When he returned to Tokyo in 1880, Hatoyama opened a law practice, while simultaneously lecturing at the University of Tokyo. He thereafter joined the ''Rikken Kaishintō'' political party founded by Ōkuma Shigenobu and became active in politics. In 1890, at Okuma's urging, he was appointed president of the Tokyo Semmon Gakko, which shortly thereafter became Waseda University. He headed this institution until 1907, although his title was largely honorary in nature. In 1901, he was invited to Yale for its 200th ann ...
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Haruko Hatoyama
was a Japanese educator of the Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa periods, and the matriarchal head of the prominent Japanese Hatoyama political family which has been called "Japan's Kennedy family." She was a co-founder of what is today Kyoritsu Women's University. Her husband was politician Kazuo Hatoyama. Early life Haruko Hatoyama was born in Matsumoto, the youngest of seven children (five girls and two boys). Her father, Tsumu, was a samurai. He changed the family name from Watanabe to Taga after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Her education began at home with her mother, and was supplemented by the lessons from local teachers of Chinese classics. Her education was different from her sisters because she was allowed to pursue the same curriculum as a boy. She was among the first students to enroll when a small, all-girls school opened in Matsumoto in 1873. However, her knowledge was so advanced that her father decided to pull her out of the small school and take her to Tokyo to be e ...
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Ichirō Hatoyama
was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1954 to 1956. A conservative, Hatoyama helped oversee the 1955 merger of the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party to create the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), of which Hatoyama was the first party president and first prime minister, and which would go on to rule Japan for most of the next seven decades. As prime minister, Hatoyama's signature achievement was restoring official diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, which had been in abeyance since World War II. Personal life Ichirō Hatoyama was, as his name indicates, the first born boy. He was born into a wealthy cosmopolitan family in Tokyo. His father Kazuo Hatoyama (1856–1911) was a Yale graduate (and Speaker of the House of Representatives) and his mother Haruko Hatoyama (1863–1938) was a famous author and the founder of Kyoritsu Women's University. His brother Hideo Hatoyama was a noted jurist. Ichirō was a Master Mason and a Protestant Chr ...
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Hideo Hatoyama
Hideo Hatoyama (2 February 1884 – 29 January 1946) was a Japanese jurist whose writings about civil law were influential in pre-World War II Japan. Hatoyama was part of the prominent Hatoyama family. His father Kazuo Hatoyama was speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan during the Meiji era, and his brother Ichirō Hatoyama was an influential politician and minister in the 1930s and 40s. Through him, Hideo Hatoyama was able to exert great influence on Japanese jurisprudence. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1908 and subsequent graduate studies in France and Germany, he taught law at his alma mater from 1916 to 1926, after which he worked as a lawyer and left his professorship to his student Sakae Wagatsuma. Hatoyama wrote influential treatises and textbooks on legal transactions (1910) and the law of obligations (1916), but his ideas fell out of fashion after Izotaro Suehiro's attacks on German-style jurisprudence of concepts. Fluent in English, Hat ...
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Kaoru Hatoyama
was an educator and an administrator, the schoolmaster of Kyoritsu Women's University, which was founded by her mother-in-law, Haruko Hatoyama."55. Museum Review: Hatoyama Kaikan (Bunkyo-ku),"
November 18, 2008.
She is well known as the wife of , who was the 52nd–54th , serving terms from December 10, 1954 through December 23, 1956. She was the mother of
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Iichirō Hatoyama
was a Japanese politician and diplomat. Between 1976 and 1977, he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Foreign Minister under Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. He was the son and father of two former Prime Ministers, Ichirō Hatoyama, Ichirō At end of the war, Iichirō was one of 6.6 million Japanese military personnel and civilians who were stranded overseas. At the time, this was about 8 percent of Japan's entire population. These statistics provide a context for understanding what it meant that Iichirō was unable to return home until December 31, 1945. Family Iichirō was the eldest son of Ichirō Hatoyama, who was the Prime Minister of Japan in 1955-1956. His grandfather Kazuo Hatoyama was Speaker of the House of Representative in the first Imperial Diet. Despite family pressure, he was interested in building a life outside the arena of Japanese politics; and his sons also grew to become independent-minded men. Iichirō is the father of Yukio Hatoyama, who was t ...
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Yasuko Hatoyama
was the wife of former Japanese Foreign Minister Iichirō Hatoyama and mother of former Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama and Diet (Japan's bicameral legislature) member Kunio Hatoyama. Hatoyama funded the establishment of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). Background and family Hatoyama was born in present-day Kurume, Fukuoka. Her father, Shojiro Ishibashi, founded the Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest tiremaker, in 1930. She became heir to Ishibashi's considerable inheritance upon his death in the 1970s. She attended middle and high school in Tokyo, during which time she met former Iichirō Hatoyama, who later became Foreign Minister. They were married at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo in 1942. The couple had two sons, both of whom have pursued successful political careers. Kunio Hatoyama served as the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications under Prime Minister Taro Aso. Yukio Hatoyama defeated Aso in the 2009 general election and became the Prime Min ...
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Yukio Hatoyama
is a former Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 16 September 2009 to 8 June 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 August 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. Early life and family Hatoyama comes from a prominent Japanese political family which has been likened to the Kennedy family of the United States.; Hayashi, Yuka"Japan's Hatoyama Sustains Family Political Tradition,"''Wall Street Journal'' (WSJ). 1 August 2009. Hatoyama, who was born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, is a fourth-generation politician. His paternal great-grandfather, Kazuo Hatoyama, was speaker of th ...
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Kunio Hatoyama
was a Japanese politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications under Prime Ministers Shinzō Abe and Yasuo Fukuda until 12 June 2009. Biography Kunio Hatoyama was born in Tokyo in 1948. He was a son of Yasuko Hatoyama and Iichirō Hatoyama, a bureaucrat who later became a third-generation politician, and grandson of Ichirō Hatoyama, who became the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Prime Minister of Japan between 1954 and 1956. His brother Yukio Hatoyama, also a politician and leader of the rival Democratic Party of Japan, became the country's Prime Minister in September 2009 following a landslide victory in the August 2009 election. His maternal grandfather was Shōjirō Ishibashi, founder of Bridgestone. Hatoyama attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and graduated with a degree in political science. He wanted to get into politics right away and became an aide to Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. He ran for the House o ...
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Emily Hatoyama
is a Japanese essayist and former actress and model. She was the wife of Kunio Hatoyama, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications under Prime Minister Tarō Asō. Early life and family Hatoyama was born to a Japanese mother, Sadako Takami and Australian father, J. K. (Jimmy) Beard, a sergeant in the Australian Army who had been stationed in Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. While some sources state that the family was forced to remain in Japan because the Australian government barred immigration by Japanese people, that particular barrier was removed several years before Hatoyama was born. Hatoyama's older sister, Marjorie Beard, also worked as an actress, under the name Risa Takami, in Toei movies and commercials during the mid-1960s. She is now married to Hiroshi Ishibashi, grandson of Bridgestone founder Shōjirō Ishibashi and is currently working for Australia–Japan relations as of 2009. Emily was engaged to Kunio Hatoyama at the a ...
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Hatoyama, Saitama
is a town located in Saitama Prefecture, in the central Kantō region of Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 13,414 in 6006 households and a population density of 520 persons per km2. The total area of the town is . The JAXA Earth Observation Center is located in Hatoyama. Geography Hatoyama is located at the geographic center of central Saitama Prefecture. Most of the town is located in the central part of the Iwadono Hills, with the town increasing in elevation from south to north. The eastern side of the town is urbanized due to highway and railway connections, which has resulted in the development of new towns. On the other hand, the northern and western parts of the town are not urbanized, and the scenery of the mountain village remains. Surrounding municipalities Saitama Prefecture * Sakado * Higashimatsuyama * Ranzan * Tokigawa * Ogose * Moroyama Climate Hatoyama has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool wi ...
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