was an

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and an administrator, the

schoolmaster The word schoolmaster, or simply master, refers to a male school teacher. This usage survives in British independent schools, both secondary and preparatory, and a few Indian boarding schools (such as The Doon School) that were modelled after B ...

Kyoritsu Women's University is a private women's college in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, established in 1949. History The vocational predecessor of the school was founded in 1886. The name "Kyoritsu", meaning "standing together" in Japanese, came from the fact that 34 people ...

, which was founded by her mother-in-law,

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 Wome ...

."55. Museum Review: Hatoyama Kaikan (Bunkyo-ku),"
November 18, 2008. She is well known as the wife of

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 Hatoyam ...

, who was the 52nd–54th

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, serving terms from December 10, 1954 through December 23, 1956. She was the mother of

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, Ichi ...

, who was Japan's

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from 1976 through 1977. After the elections of 2009, she became more widely known as the grandmother of

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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, Hatoy ...

and his politician brother

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 Hatoyam ...

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* Itoh, Mayumi (2003)
''The Hatoyama Dynasty: Japanese Political Leadership through the Generations''
New York: Palgrave Macmillan. , . .

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1888 births 1982 deaths

Kaoru Kaoru is a Japanese given name for males or females. Name Meanings The name's meaning varies depending on its written form: *薫/郁/芳 — "fragrance", common for both males and females *馨/香 — "fragrance", more common for females ...

Spouses of prime ministers of Japan Japanese educators Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st class Japanese women educators {{Japan-bio-stub

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