Taro Hatoyama

Tarō Hatoyama ( Japanese 鳩 山 太郎 , Hatoyama Tarō ; born June 13, 1974 in Bunkyō , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician and former member of the Tokyo Prefectural Parliament .

Hatoyama, the son of the MP and ex-minister Kunio Hatoyama and the semi-Australian Emily Hatoyama , studied at Waseda University and worked temporarily for a publishing house in 2002. 2003 took place in Bunkyō a new election for the seat of Shōji Saijō in the Tokyo prefecture parliament, who had violated the electoral law. The new election took place at the same time as the gubernatorial election in Tokyo , where Shintarō Ishihara with LDP and Kōmeitō support was overwhelmingly elected for a second term. Hatoyama won the election in Bunkyō as an independent candidate by around 4,000 votes ahead of the CPY candidate Hiroko Kotake and another independent. In the regular elections in 2005 he ended up in the two-mandate constituency Bunkyō only in fourth place and lost his mandate. In 2007 he ran for mayor of Bunkyō, but ended up in third place behind Hironobu Narisawa , who enjoyed the support of the major parties and another independent.

Hatoyama became his father's secretary in September 2008 when he became Minister for General Affairs; he kept the position until his resignation in June 2009. 2010 he ran for election to Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese parliament, on the proportional representation list of the Shinto Kaikaku , but received just under 24 thousand preferential votes and thus reached number two on the list behind General Secretary Hiroyuki Arai , who occupied the only seat for the party in the Sangiin.

family

Hatoyama's great-grandfather Ichirō and his uncle Yukio are former Prime Ministers of Japan, his grandfather Iichirō was Foreign Minister, and his great-great-grandfather Kazuo was President of the House of Representatives. His cousin Kiichirō is an urban planner and researches at Moscow's Lomonosov University .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tokyo Prefecture's Election Supervision Commission: Result of the new and by-elections for the prefecture parliament in 2003 in Bunkyō and Ōta ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Results of the Tokyo Prefectural Parliamentary Elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Result of the mayoral election of Bunkyō 2007 ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.