Kunio Hatoyama

Hatoyama as attorney general at a meeting with US Ambassador Tom Schieffer in March 2008

Kunio Hatoyama ( Japanese 鳩 山 邦夫 Hatoyama Kunio ; born September 13, 1948 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † June 21, 2016 ibid) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , and former Minister.

Life

Hatoyama was a graduate of Tokyo University and since 1976, with the exception of the years 1979 to 1980 and 1999 to 2000, a member of the Shūgiin, first for the three-mandate constituency Tokyo 8, after the electoral reform, initially in the new one-mandate constituency Tokyo 2 . He was initially a member of the ruling LDP, which he joined after his second election to parliament in 1980 . Within the party, he belonged to the Tsushima faction . However, he left the party in 1993 and was involved with his brother Yukio in founding the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in 1996. In 1999 he resigned his parliamentary seat and ran for the successor to Yukio Aoshima in the gubernatorial election in Tokyo , but was clearly subject to Shintarō Ishihara . While his brother was chairman of the DPJ between 1999 and 2002, Kunio Hatoyama left the party in 2000 and returned to the LDP. For this he moved to the 18th constituency in the west of the prefecture in the 2003 election , but was clearly defeated by DPJ co-founder Naoto Kan and was only re-elected via the proportional representation block. Since the 2005 election, Hatoyama ran in the 6th constituency of Fukuoka , not in Tokyo.

From 1991 to 1992 Hatoyama was Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology . After leaving the party, he became minister of labor in the Hata cabinet for the Kaikaku no Kai faction ( 改革 の 会 , “Reform Assembly”) in 1994 . Back in the LDP, Shinzō Abe named him Justice Minister in August 2007, shortly before his resignation . In the cabinet reshuffle in August 2008, he was replaced by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda by Okiharu Yasuoka .

During his tenure as Minister of Justice, Hatoyama authorized 13 hangings, the largest number of executions by a single minister since the death penalty was not used for four years between 1989 and 1993.

In September 2008, Prime Minister Tarō Asō appointed him to his first cabinet as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications . Hatoyama resigned on June 12, 2009 in the dispute over a possible replacement of the board of directors of the private JP Group , which is still state-owned. Hatoyama was considered an important internal party ally Asōs. He refused to join the Democratic Party, which has been chaired by his brother Yukio again since May 2009, but did not rule out leaving the LDP.

In 2009, in connection with the donation scandal involving his brother Yukio, it became known that Kunio Hatoyama, like his brother, had received billions from his mother between 2003 and 2008.

Hatoyama left the LDP in March 2010. He ruled out a collaboration with his brother Yukio, whose government he criticized as "socialist". He announced the founding of a new party, for which he wanted to win the LDP politicians Kaoru Yosano and Yōichi Masuzoe , but remained independent until 2012 during the party reshuffle.

After the 2012 Shūgiin election , Hatoyama returned to the LDP in late December 2012. Like Prime Minister Abe and other cabinet and LDP party members, Hatoyama was close to Nippon Kaigi , who was considered revisionist .

family

Hatoyama's grandfather Hatoyama Ichirō was Prime Minister of Japan and founding chairman of the LDP between 1954 and 1956 . His great-grandfather Hatoyama Kazuo was already a deputy and president of the Shūgiin. Kunio Hatoyama's father Hatoyama Iichirō was Japanese foreign minister from 1976 to 1977 and also a member of the LDP, his mother is a daughter of Bridgestone founder Ishibashi Shōjirō . His semi-Australian wife, Emily Takami, is a former model; Her older son Tarō was a member of the Tokyo Prefectural Parliament for the long-standing family home of Bunkyō from 2003 to 2005 and applied for a national mandate in the 2010 Sangiin election of the Shintō Kaikaku , the younger son Jirō was mayor of the city of Ōkawa in Kunios since 2013 (newer) constituency in Fukuoka before he succeeded Kunio as MP in autumn 2016.

Web links

Commons : Kunio Hatoyama  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brief profile on the website of the Japanese Cabinet (English)
• Family Tree of the Hatoyama Brothers (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 衆院 議員 の 鳩 山 邦夫 氏 が 死去 ６７ 歳 、 法相 や 総 務 相 を 歴 任 . (No longer available online.) In: Tōkyō Shimbun . June 22, 2016, archived from the original on June 22, 2016 ; Retrieved June 22, 2016 (Japanese). 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. ↑ Minoru Masutani: Serial killer Miyazaki, two others hanged. '80s child slayings stunned Japan; executions under Hatoyama hit 13. In: The Japan Times Online. June 18, 2008, accessed August 7, 2008 . 
3. ↑ Hatoyama quits Aso Cabinet. Refusal to let Japan Post boss stay spurs exit. In: The Japan Times . June 12, 2009, accessed June 12, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Hatoyama's mom gave sons billions? Despite 'loan' claim, gift tax question raised. In: The Japan Times . December 3, 2009, accessed December 9, 2009 . 
5. ↑ Hatoyama's brother quits 'ousted' LDP. Hoped-for allies mum; 'socialistic' DPJ's boss gives the cold shoulder. In: The Japan Times . March 16, 2010, accessed March 16, 2010 . 
6. ↑ http://www.japan-press.co.jp/s/news/?id=4056
7. ^ Shinto Kaikaku: Candidates for the Sangiin election 2010
8. ↑ ト ッ プ イ ン タ ビ ュ ー> 鳩 山 二郎 ・ 福岡 県 大川 市長 . In: jiji.com . 2014, accessed June 22, 2016 (Japanese). 
9. ↑ 福岡 ６ 区 補選 、 鳩 山 二郎 氏 当選… 自 民 が 追加 公認 . (No longer available online.) In: Yomiuri Online . October 23, 2016, archived from the original on October 24, 2016 ; Retrieved October 24, 2016 (Japanese). 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.