Hatoyama Iichirō

Hatoyama family, Iichirō standing

Hatoyama Iichirō ( Japanese 鳩 山 威 一郎 ; born November 11, 1918 in Tokyo , † December 19, 1993 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese civil servant and politician. From 1976 to 1977 he was his country's foreign minister .

Life

After attending the primary school of the University of Tsukuba in Bunkyō and the high school of the Tokyo prefecture in Kōjimachi in what is now Chiyoda , Hatoyama studied at the law faculty of the Imperial University of Tokyo and graduated in 1941 as the best of his year. In 1941 Hatoyama was made an official in the Ministry of Finance , for which he completed his military service in the Imperial Japanese Navy as paymaster from April 1941 . In 1942 he married. In the Navy he was among other things in the staff of the 4th Fleet, the Navy Ministry and in 1946 in the "Second Ministry of Demobilization" and was promoted to the rank of major in 1945 as kaigun shukei shōsa .

Hatoyama was released from service in March 1946 and returned to the Treasury Department as an officer. There he rose in 1965 as head of the ministerial secretariat ( kambō ) in the economic planning office , in 1968 as head of the budget department ( shukei-kyoku ) and finally in 1971 as state secretary ( jimujikan ) to the highest official positions.

In 1974 he left the ministry and was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the election on July 7, 1947 for the Sangiin, the upper house, for the first of a total of three six-year terms in parliament. In December 1976 Prime Minister Fukuda Takeo appointed him to his cabinet as Foreign Minister . As a minister he traveled to the G7 summit in London in 1977 , through South Asia (July 1977) and Southeast Asia (August 1977) and spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations . In November 1977 he was replaced by Cabinet Secretary Sonoda Sunao in a cabinet reshuffle . In 1986 Hatoyama headed the support association in the election campaign of Arai Shōkei in Hokkaidō , who was elected to parliament for the first time at the same time as Hatoyama's son Yukio.

Hatoyama was considered an aspiring zoku-giin from the Treasury, but failed to make the breakthrough because of his poor health. In 1992 he retired from politics. At the age of 75 he died on December 19, 1993 and was raised to the 3rd court rank ( 正 三位 , shōsanmi ) by being awarded the First Class Order of Merit ( 勲 一等 , kun'ittō ) .

family

Hatoyama was the eldest son of Hatoyama Ichirō , a politician and Prime Minister of Japan from 1954 to 1956. His uncle by marriage Suzuki Kisaburō was a member of the Kizokuin and in the 1920s and 30s Minister of Justice and Interior. His grandfather Hatoyama Kazuo came from a samurai family in Katsuyama - han and was a diplomat, member of parliament and president of the Shūgiin from 1896 to 1897 during the Meiji period . His maternal grandfather was Terada Sakae , a member of the nationalist group Gen'yōsha and later a member of the manor .

Hatoyama's wife was the eldest daughter of the entrepreneur Ishibashi Shōjirō , the founder of the tire manufacturer Bridgestone . Their sons Kunio and Yukio both became members of the Shūgiin.

Through the Ishibashi family, Hatoyama was also related to the families of Prime Ministers Ikeda Hayato and Miyazawa Kiichi , including the General and Minister of the Army Kodama Gentarō , the MPs Ikeda Yukihiko and Miyazawa Yōichi and the US diplomat and former Ambassador to Malaysia Christopher J. LaFleur .

Awards

• In 1983 Hatoyama was awarded the Grand Cross of the Republic of Peru.
• In 1989 he was awarded the Order of the Holy Treasure, First Class

literature

• Ikuhiko Hata 秦郁彦 (Ed.): 日本 近 現代 人物 履 歴 事 典 . 東京 大学 出版 会 (University of Tokyo Press), Tokyo 2000, ISBN 978-4-13-030120-6 .

Web links

• Hatoyama Kaikan (English Hatoyama Hall ; family museum ): Timeline / Brief CV Hatoyama Iichirō (Japanese)
• Kingendaikeizu: Tree of Life of the Hatoyama Family (Japanese)

predecessor	Office	successor
Kosaka Zentaro	Japanese Foreign Minister 1976–1977	Sonoda Sunao

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Hatoyama is the family name, Iichirō the first name.