Kunio Hatoyama

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Biography

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Hatoyama with members of Yasuo Fukuda Cabinet in 2007
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Kunio Hatoyama with American ambassador Tom Schieffer in 2008

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 of Representatives in 1976 as a member of the New Liberal Club and entered the LDP after winning.

In 1993, he left the LDP and became a conservative independent, saying he wanted to form a new party to oppose the LDP. He was briefly Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata.

In 1994, he helped form the now-defunct New Frontier Party, which he left in 1996 to form the Democratic Party of Japan with his brother, Yukio Hatoyama, and became the Vice Leader of the opposition. Divisions between the brothers eventually led him to leave the DPJ in 1999, and he re-joined the LDP in 2000 after running unsuccessfully for the seat of the Governor of Tokyo.

He joined the Shinzō Abe cabinet as Justice Minister in August 2007, and maintained his post through the September inauguration of the cabinet of Yasuo Fukuda. Serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki was executed during his tenure.[1] After the execution, he was called "Grim Reaper" by the Asahi Shimbun, which made him angry.[2]

Subsequently, in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Tarō Asō, appointed on 24 September 2008, Hatoyama was moved to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.[3] In a dispute with Asō over a possible replacement of Japan Post Holdings president Yoshifumi Nishikawa Hatoyama resigned on 12 June 2009.[4]

Personal life

He was married to Emily Hatoyama (née Emily Baird, aka Emily Takami), the daughter of an Australian army sergeant, Jimmy Baird, and a Japanese woman. Emily is a former model and actress. The couple has three children, Tarō Hatoyama, Hanako Hatoyama and Jirō Hatoyama.

Hatoyama died on 21 June 2016 in a hospital in Tokyo, at the age of 67.[5] He was survived by his wife, three children and five grandchildren.[6]

Controversies

Views on the death penalty

In September 2007, Hatoyama caused a controversy after making a remark during a press conference, where he suggested a system in which execution of death row inmates could take place without him having to sign the final execution order, as currently required by Japanese law. He came under criticism from opponents to capital punishment such as Amnesty International Japan for his attitude, which said that he was trying to avoid accountability as well as showing disregard for human rights.[7]

Remarks about the Bali bombing

In October 2007, during a news conference, Hatoyama attempted to justify plans to fingerprint and photograph all foreigners at immigration by claiming that an unidentified "friend of a friend", who is an Al-Qaeda terrorist involved in the 2002 Bali bombings, was able to sneak in and out of Japan repeatedly over the following years using different passports and wearing a fake moustache. He added that he had received prior warning to stay away from the centre of Bali because it would be bombed. The remarks were made during a news conference at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, where he was trying to explain the necessity of new anti-terrorism measures being implemented whereby all foreigners entering the country will be fingerprinted and photographed.

Later that day, he gave another press conference in which he retracted his remarks, saying instead that it was actually his friend who had received a prior warning about the bombing, and that he only found out about the warning three or four months after the bombing. He also issued a statement denying any connections to members of Al-Qaeda, as well as apologising to Prime Minister Fukuda for the confusion he caused.[8][9][10][11]

Revisionism

Hatoyama was affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi.[12]

Ancestry

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Election history

Election Age District Political party Number of votes election results
1976 Japanese general election 28 Tokyo 8th district Independent 61,207 winning
1979 Japanese general election 31 Tokyo 8th district LDP 30,584 lost
1980 Japanese general election 31 Tokyo 8th district LDP 70,866 winning
1983 Japanese general election 35 Tokyo 8th district LDP 59,897 winning
1986 Japanese general election 37 Tokyo 8th district LDP 65,008 winning
1990 Japanese general election 41 Tokyo 8th district LDP 59,850 winning
1993 Japanese general election 44 Tokyo 8th district Independent 89,800 winning
1996 Japanese general election 48 Tokyo 2nd district DPJ 88,183 winning
2000 Japanese general election 51 Tokyo proportional representation block LDP ーー winning
2003 Japanese general election 58 Tokyo 18th district LDP 83,337 elected by PR
2005 Japanese general election 56 Fukuoka 6th district LDP 131,946 winning
2009 Japanese general election 60 Fukuoka 6th district LDP 138,327 winning
2012 Japanese general election 64 Fukuoka 6th district Independent[13] 87,705 winning
2014 Japanese general election 66 Fukuoka 6th district LDP[14] 116,413 winning
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Notes

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  2. ↑ "Japan minister livid at 'Grim Reaper' jibe over executions", Agence France-Presse, 20 June 2008.
  3. ↑ "Aso elected premier / Announces Cabinet lineup himself; poll likely on Nov. 2" Template:Webarchive, The Yomiuri Shimbun, 25 September 2008.
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  5. ↑ LDP grandee Kunio Hatoyama dead at 67
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  7. ↑ Death penalty foes hit Hatoyama over accountability snub Japan Times
  8. ↑ Minister: 'Friend of a friend' in al Qaeda CNN
  9. ↑ Machimura warns Hatoyama over al-Qaeda remark Japan Today
  10. ↑ Hatoyama justifies taking prints with 'friend of a friend' in al-Qaeda claim Template:Webarchive Mainichi Daily News
  11. ↑ Japan minister in al-Qaeda claim BBC
  12. ↑ "Pro-Yasukuni lineup features Aso Cabinet" - Japan Press Weekly - 24 September 2008
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Political offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Minister of Education of Japan
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Minister of Labour of Japan
1994 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan
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Minister of State for Decentralization Reform of Japan
2008–2009 Template:S-ttl/check
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Representative for Tokyo 8th district (multi-member)
1976–1979
1980–1996
Served alongside: Hisanori Yamada, Yoshimi Nakagawa, Takashi Fukaya, Mitsuhiro KanekoTemplate:S-ttl/check 		District eliminated
New district Representative for Tokyo 2nd district
1996–1999 Template:S-ttl/check 		Vacant
Title next held by
Yoshikatsu Nakayama
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Representative for Fukuoka 6th district
2005–2016 Template:S-ttl/check 		Vacant
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Jirō Hatoyama
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chair, Lower House Committee on Rules and Administration
2002 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
New title Chair, Lower House Special Committee for Regional Revitalization
2014–2016 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

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