Yukio Hatoyama

Hatoyama in September 2009

Yukio Hatoyama ( Japanese 鳩 山 由 紀 夫 , Hatoyama Yukio ; born February 11, 1947 in Bunkyō , Tokyo ) is a former Japanese politician and was a member of the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the 9th constituency of Hokkaidō . From September 16, 2009 to June 8, 2010, he was the 60th Prime Minister of Japan and several times chairman of the Democratic Party (DPJ), most recently from 2009 to 2010. Within the party, Hatoyama had its own faction , the Hatoyama Group (officially: 政 権 公約 を 実 現 す る 会 , seiken kōyaku o jitsugen suru kai , dt. "Assembly for the implementation of the election program").

Life

Career

Hatoyama is a graduate of Tokyo University's engineering faculty , followed by a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University . After his training, he worked in the industrial engineering department of the Tokyo University of Technology as an assistant professor and later as a junior professor at Senshū University . From 1986 to 2012 Hatoyama was a member of the Shūgiin, originally for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). There he belonged to the Tanaka faction of ex-Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka . In 1993 he left the party and together with Masayoshi Takemura founded the New Party Sakigake , which joined the anti-LDP coalition under Morihiro Hosokawa after the Shūgiin election in 1993 . Hatoyama became Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in the new government . After the overthrow of Hosokawa and his successor Tsutomu Hata , the New Party Sakigake, together with the Socialist Party of Japan, made it possible for the LDP to return to government.

Democratic Party

In 1996 Hatoyama founded the Democratic Party with his fellow party member Naoto Kan and some opposition politicians - including his brother Kunio . Kan and Hatoyama initially shared the party chairmanship, from 1997 Hatoyama was general secretary. In 1998, when the Democrats swallowed most of the opposition parties, Hatoyama became sole party leader. Under his leadership, the Democrats consolidated their position as the leading opposition party in the 2000 Shūgiin election . In 1999 there was a political falling out with his brother, who returned to the LDP in 2000. In 2002 Hatoyama proposed an alliance in opposition with the Liberal Party of Ichirō Ozawa and the Social Democratic Party . He lost support within the party and resigned from party leadership in December 2002. Naoto Kan was elected to succeed him. The Liberal Party joined the DPJ in autumn 2003.

In 2005 he was under Seiji Maehara and his successor Ichirō Ozawa for the second time General Secretary of the Democratic Party. After Ozawa's resignation due to a donation scandal in May 2009, Hatoyama also announced his resignation as general secretary. In the election for Ozawa's successor on May 16, 2009, Hatoyama ran against Katsuya Okada and won with 124 votes to 95 from the Democratic MPs in both chambers of parliament. He was elected as party leader until the end of Ozawa's regular term in September 2010.

In June 2009 Hatoyama himself had to admit that his office had made false reports of political donations from 2005 to 2008, among other things dead people had been given as donors. After he took office as Prime Minister, further investigations were conducted by prosecutors and parliament, which in November 2009 revealed that Hatoyama's mother "loaned" him approximately 900 million yen from Bridgestone's fortune - a fact he had previously in parliament had denied. In the case of personal donations, the sum would have been taxable; in the case of political donations of this amount, it would have been illegal. When the public prosecutor's office charged two former Hatoyama secretaries with falsifying donation reports on December 24, 2009, he himself ruled out resignation. In April 2010 Hatoyama's ex-secretary Keiji Katsuba was sentenced to two years probation and the investigation into Hatoyama himself was terminated. A Kensatsu-shinsakai ( 検 察 審査 会 , "Public Prosecutor's Inspectorate "; acts upon request to review prosecutorial decisions) upheld the prosecutor's decision, but stated that Hatoyama's allegation was doubtful, none of his mother's donations and the forgery of the Knowing reports.

To Shugiin-2012 election Hatoyama not applied more a mandate. The prefectural member of parliament and former speed skater Manabu Horii won his constituency for the LDP .

After serving as prime minister

After his resignation as prime minister, Hatoyama continued to serve as an MP in the Shūgiin . When Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda tabled a bill to increase consumption tax from 5% to 10%, Hatoyama was one of 57 DPJ MPs in the lower house who voted against the bill.

On November 21, 2012, Hatoyama announced that he would not run again in the Japanese general election in 2012 . He remained active in public even afterwards and repeatedly speaks out on political issues.

On January 9, 2013, Hatoyama formally apologized to the victims of Japanese war crimes in China while visiting Nanjing . He called on the Japanese government to resolve the dispute between the two countries over the sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands .

In May 2013 he founded the “East Asian Community Institute” ( 東 ア ジ ア 共同体 研究所 , Higashiajiakyōdōtai kenkyūjo ), a think tank to create an “East Asian community” similar to the European Union .

In June 2013, Hatoyama resigned from the DPJ due to differences of opinion regarding the VAT increase and participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and announced that it would henceforth distance itself from both the LDP and the DPJ.

In March 2015, Hatoyama visited the Crimean peninsula and defended the referendum there on the status of Crimea as constitutional.

Hatoyama is a follower of Transcendental Meditation and caused an international sensation in late 2014 when he announced that he would star in a play in the role of an old woman in a play the following January.

With the release of Paradise Papers in November 2017 it became known that Hatoyama since 2013 Honorary Chairman and Advisor to the in Bermuda registered energy company "Hoifu Energy Group Ltd." based in Hong Kong is. He himself stated that he received sums of money from the company for his activities, but that these were properly taxed and denied any connection with possible tax offenses .

Reign

     The approval and      rejection rate of the cabinet according to polls by the NHK from 2009: In a few months, the Hatoyama cabinet lost the support of the electorate.

After the victory of the Democratic Party in the Shūgiin election in 2009 , Hatoyama replaced Tarō Asō as prime minister on September 16, 2009 . In the decisive vote in the Shūgiin he received 327 votes. Then his coalition cabinet consisting of the DPJ, New People's Party and Social Democratic Party was presented in the Kantei .

The approval rate of the cabinet when taking office was 72%, according to some polls 75% (Yomiuri) or 77% (Mainichi), the highest of a cabinet since the cabinet of Jun'ichirō Koizumi . By May 2010, these approval rates had fallen to below 20 percent in some surveys.

Domestic politics

"From the officials to the people"

The declared aim of Hatoyama's government was to enforce the primacy of politics ( 政治 主導 , seiji shudō ), i.e. the elected decision-makers in parliament and government, against the ministerial bureaucracy, which has so far made many political decisions in cooperation with individual members of parliament and interest groups . Hatoyama had, among other things, dissolved the political research council of his party with its departmental sub-committees and enforced restrictions on civil servants' own public relations work. Two new institutions also served this goal: The “National Strategy Office” ( kokka senryaku-kyoku ) was supposed to develop guidelines for the budget and to process the budget inquiries from the ministries, which were previously only answered by the Ministry of Finance . The “Conference on the Renewal of Administration” ( gyōsei sasshin kaigi ) had examined individual budget items in hearings with the authorities and institutions concerned with regard to their necessity and savings potential and proposed numerous projects for deletion or review. Were affected as the GX-missile project of the space agency , a new supercomputer of the Ministry of Science and airports Itami and Kansai from Osaka , which are to be merged, according to the conference. The conference's proposals were non-binding, but were intended to help the government achieve its budgetary slimming goal. The first round of hearings concluded in November 2009; the results should feed into the draft budget for the fiscal year 2010. A second round of hearings began in April 2010.

"From concrete to people"

Bridge construction work (September 2009) on the Yamba dam, which Hatoyama had painted and which his government saw as a symbol of the “waste” of public funds in large-scale projects.

In addition, Hatoyama had some of the measures taken by its predecessors revised or checked after taking office: The Yamba Dam in Gunma and the Kawabegawa Dam in Kumamoto (total construction costs around 800 billion yen ) were not to be built and further dams were to be checked. While these measures for the Kawabegawa Dam have proven their worth so far (2017), construction work on the Yamba Dam resumed in 2015 and should be completed in 2020. The co-payments introduced in 2008 for senior citizens over 75 in health insurance should be abolished. The Japanese Post's privatization plan has been suspended and reviewed. Parts of the supplementary budget of the Asō government were also put on hold. At the same time, in December 2009 the cabinet passed a second supplementary budget with an economic stimulus package of 7.2 trillion yen.

In addition, child benefit was introduced and school fees for secondary schools were abolished, as were the tax exemptions previously granted for them. Overall, social spending should increase by ten percent in fiscal year 2010 according to the approved budget.

Broken and weakened election promises

The "temporary tax" ( zantei zeiritsu ) on petrol introduced in 1974 was nominally abolished, but - contrary to what was promised in the election manifesto - it was further raised through tax increases in the same amount in the 2010 fiscal year. The reorganization of gasoline taxes through the introduction of an eco tax ( 地球 温暖 化 対 策 税 , chikyū ondanka taisaku zei , “tax to combat global warming”) was planned, but an exact date for its introduction was not specified. The motorway toll was initially abolished “experimentally” in the summer of 2010 on around 1,600 km of the route network (18 percent of the national motorway network excluding the Kantō and Hanshin motorways), especially in rural areas.

Record debt

The budget passed in the House of Commons in March 2010 for the coming fiscal year 2010 reached a new record high of 92 trillion yen; 44.3 trillion yen, which is more than the tax revenue, should be financed through new bonds. At 27 trillion, social spending exceeded half of related expenditure for the first time (excluding allocations to local authorities and debt servicing). In fiscal 2010, tobacco tax was increased by 3.5 yen per cigarette.

The rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded the outlook for Japanese government bonds (rating: AA) from “stable” to “negative” in January 2010.

Following a decision of Hatoyama's Cabinet in December 2009, Japan wanted to host the World Cup apply in 2018 or 2022nd However, in May 2010 the Japan Football Association decided to withdraw its application for 2018 due to a low chance of winning. When it came to choosing the location for the 2022 Games , Japan ended up in fourth place.

Foreign policy

"Fraternal Diplomacy"

US President Barack Obama and Yukio Hatoyama at a meeting in the Kantei in November 2009. The debate over the relocation of US military bases weighed on the alliance.

Demonstrations in Okinawa - here in Ginowan in November 2009 - called for a reduction in the US military presence in the prefecture.

Hatoyama proclaimed a foreign policy concept that envisaged closer relations with neighboring Asian states. He assigned this to a basic political attitude, which he himself called yūai ("brotherhood"; in the foreign policy context also yūai gaikō , "brotherly diplomacy"). An article by Hatoyama published in August 2009 in the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times , in which he described globalization and capitalism in their current form based on the US model as inhumane, caused a stir abroad - especially among Japan's main ally, the USA . In the long term, he proclaimed the goal of creating an East Asian community modeled on the EU . Hatoyama took up the term yūai in his government statement and a speech to the General Assembly before the United Nations. After taking office, he made a clear commitment to the US-Japanese alliance several times.

Assignments abroad

The Indian Ocean Defense Forces refueling mission in support of US operations in Afghanistan ended in January 2010. In February 2010 the government decided to send 300 soldiers to support the UN mission in Haiti.

US bases in Okinawa

A controversial issue in Hatoyama's coalition was the planned relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Ginowan , Okinawa . An agreement signed in 2005 between the USA and the LDP-led previous government provided for the relocation of the base from the densely populated Ginowan to Camp Schwab in Nago , Okinawa, where a new runway is to be built off the coast. Hatoyama's attempt to renegotiate the agreement and relocate the base from Okinawa or entirely from Japan initially caused displeasure in Japanese-American relations . A final decision was postponed until 2010. Initially, Hatoyama had announced a decision for May 2010. In view of the resistance of the citizens, the affected mayor and governor of Okinawa and the alternative location Takenoshima in Kagoshima Prefecture, he postponed the deadline again.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) threatened early on that it would leave the coalition if the base remained in Okinawa. When Hatoyama wanted to enforce a cabinet decision at the end of May 2010 to move the base to Nago as originally agreed with the USA, i.e. to leave it in Okinawa, the Social Democratic Party refused to participate in the decision. Hatoyama then fired Mizuho Fukushima , the party leader and sole minister of the SDP. As a result, the SDP left the governing coalition and announced that it would vote with the conservative opposition in a (non-binding) vote of no confidence in the House of Lords announced by the LDP. At the same time, several Democrats publicly called for Hatoyama's resignation before the 2010 Sangiin election .

Investigation of the secret agreements between Japan and the USA

After taking office, the Hatoyama cabinet set up an independent commission at the State Department to investigate secret military agreements between the Japanese and US governments. She presented her results in March 2010. According to this, there were several secret government-level agreements in the post-war period that had previously been denied by the LDP-led governments and representatives of the US government, although documents had already been made public in previous years that indicated the existence of such agreements. The agreements included the permission granted by the Japanese government to the US military to bring nuclear weapons into the country without notifying Japanese authorities. This was seen by parts of the population as a violation of the "three non-nuclear principles" .

resignation

On June 2, 2010 Hatoyama announced his resignation before the general assembly of the DPJ MPs of both chambers, which he justified with the Futenma problem and the donation scandals surrounding him and Secretary General Ozawa. The Hatoyama cabinet resigned on June 4, 2010. The elections for Naoto Kan's successor as party chairman and prime minister took place on the same day. Since the formal appointment of the Kan cabinet by the Tennō did not take place until June 8, 2010, Hatoyama remained nominally in office until then.

family

Prime Minister Ichirō Hatoyama with his grandchildren Yukio (center) and Kunio (right)

Hatoyama comes from a political dynasty, the Hatoyama clan is called the "Kennedys of Japan" in the Western media: Yukio Hatoyama's grandfather, Kazuo Hatoyama was born into a samurai family in feudal Katsuyama and was in the Meiji era diplomat, MP and 1896-1897 President of the Shūgiin. His grandfather Ichirō Hatoyama was Prime Minister of Japan between 1954 and 1956 and founding chairman of the LDP. His father Iichirō Hatoyama was foreign minister from 1976 to 1977 and also a member of the LDP. His younger brother was Minister of the Interior and Justice. Hatoyama's maternal grandfather, Shōjirō Ishibashi , was the founder of the Bridgestone tire company . Through the Ishibashi family, Hatoyama is also related to the families of Prime Ministers Kiichi Miyazawa and Hayato Ikeda , including the current MPs Yōichi Miyazawa and Minoru Terada . Hatoyama's wife Miyuki is a former member of the Takarazuka Revue . She made headlines when she claimed she was abducted by aliens and brought to the planet Venus .

Like his grandfather, Hatoyama is a Baptist .

family tree

Kikuchi Dairoku

Kazuo

Haruko

Chiyoko

Hideo

Ichirō

Kaoru

Kazu

Suzuki Kisaburō

Michio

Akiko

Iichirō

Ishibashi Yasuko

Shigeko

Akio Watanabe

Kunio

Yukio

Aiko

Taro

Jirō

Fonts

• Yukio Hatoyama, Naoto Kan, Motohisa Furukawa: 民 益 論 - わ れ ら 官僚 主導 を 排 す ( Min'ekiron - warera kanryō shudō o haisu ). PHP Kenkyūjo 1997.
• Yukio Hatoyama, Eita Namikawa: い ま 、 子 ど も た ち が 殺 さ れ る - 学校 崩 壊 ・ い じ め ・ 家庭 内 暴力… 歪 ん だ 教育 の 病 弊 を 衝 ( ima, kodomotaiō, kaioku, ( ima, kodomotaiō - kaioku ga no byōhei o tsuku ). Nihon Bungeisha 1999.
• 「成長 の 限界」 に 学 ぶ ( "seichō no genkai" ni manabu ). Shogakukan 2000.
• 新 憲法 試 案 - 尊 厳 あ る 日本 を 創 る ( shin kempō shian - songen aru Nippon o tsukuru ). PHP Kenkyūjo 2005.

Works

• Take Heart - Tobitate Heiwa no Tori yo ( Take HEART〜 翔 び た て 平和 の 鳩 よ 〜 ), Teichiku Record, single, 1987 LP , October 30, 2009 CD
• Miyuki Hatoyama, Yukio Hatoyama: Home Cooking with Japan's First Lady: Family Dishes from the Hatoyama Kitchen . Kōdansha International, 2009.

literature

• Mayumi Itoh: The Hatoyama dynasty: Japanese political leadership through the generations. Palgrave Macmillan 2003, ISBN 1-4039-6331-2 .

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Hatoyama says he will resign at the end of the current Diet session. Kan, Okada prime candidates to succeed DPJ leader. In: The Japan Times . December 4, 2002, accessed October 3, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Kan wins duel with Okada, returns to helm of the DPJ. In: The Japan Times . December 11, 2002, accessed October 3, 2009 . 
4. ^ Masami Itō: Ozawa declares resignation. Hatoyama is stepping down; Okada, Kan seen stepping up. In: The Japan Times . May 12, 2009, accessed May 12, 2009 . 
5. ^ Hatoyama apologizes for false reports. In: The Japan Times . July 1, 2009, accessed July 3, 2009 . 
6. ↑ DPJ leader admits fund-raising group received 21 million yen from nonexistent donors. (No longer available online.) In: Mainichi Daily News . July 1, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Hatoyama body scrubs false report entries. (No longer available online.) In: The Daily Yomiuri . July 3, 2009, archived from the original on July 4, 2009 ; Retrieved July 3, 2009 . 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.  
8. ↑ Hatoyama's funds probed. Scandal over funding reports revived as prosecutors question donors. In: The Japan Times . October 4, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
9. ↑ Millions from mom 'lent' to Hatoyama. Funding reports may have listed fictitious donors as the source. In: The Japan Times . November 26, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
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11. ↑ contrite Hatoyama refuses to resign over scandal. Prime minister sorry for 'sloppy' funding, says he will pay gift tax. In: The Japan Times . December 25, 2009, accessed December 25, 2009 . 
12. ↑ Ex-Hatoyama fund manager found guilty. Another severe blow is dealt to beleaguered DPJ. In: The Japan Times . April 23, 2010, accessed April 26, 2010 . 
13. ↑ Japan panel says OK not to charge PM in scandal: report. In: Washington Post . April 25, 2010, accessed April 26, 2010 . 
14. ↑ Hatoyama decision OK'd by inquest panel. Prosecutors were correct not to indict in political money scandal. In: The Japan Times . April 27, 2010, accessed April 27, 2010 . 
15. ↑ Local DPJ chapters blast tax-vote rebel lawmakers June 28 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2019 . 
16. ^ Former premier Hatoyama retires from politics November 22, 2012. Accessed October 2, 2019 . 
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19. ↑ 鳩 山 由 紀 夫 氏 、 ６ 月末 で 民主党 を 離 党 ( Memento from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
20. ^ Ex-prime minister Hatoyama defends referendum in Crimea as constitutional . In: The Japan Times Online . March 12, 2015, ISSN  0447-5763 ( japantimes.co.jp [accessed October 2, 2019]).
21. ↑ Former Japan Prime Minister to Address Record Number of Grads at 2015 Maharishi University Commencement. Retrieved October 2, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Jun Hongo: Former PM Yukio Hatoyama to Play Elderly Woman in Musical. In: WSJ. November 16, 2014, Retrieved October 2, 2019 (American English). 
23. ↑ New 'Paradise Papers' data leak links Hatoyama to Bermuda firm and US commerce chief to Putin biz benefits. In: The Japan Times . November 6, 2017, accessed November 11, 2017 . 
24. ↑ PARADISE PAPERS: Hatoyama says involved with Bermuda firm 'in name only'. In: The Asahi Shimbun . November 6, 2017, accessed November 11, 2017 . 
25. ↑ Cabinet's support rate 72%. Hot start, high expectations for coalition team. In: The Japan Times . September 18, 2009, accessed September 18, 2009 . 
26. ↑ Hatoyama Cabinet kicks off with 75% support rate. (No longer available online.) In: Yomiuri Shimbun . September 18, 2009, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 18, 2009 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
27. ↑ Bureaucrats overreact to press meet ban. (No longer available online.) In: Yomiuri Shimbun . September 19, 2009, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 19, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
28. ^ Budget-cutting committee wants to kill JAXA's GX rocket project. In: The Japan Times . November 18, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
29. ↑ Supercomputer project faces freeze. In: The Japan Times . November 14, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
30. ^ Three Osaka airports may be unified. Single administrator recommended. In: The Japan Times . December 2, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
31. ^ 'Politically binding' budget screening over. In: The Japan Times . November 28, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
32. ^ DPJ begins the new round of waste-cutting. In: The Japan Times . March 12, 2010, accessed March 12, 2010 . 
33. ↑ 60 years of planning - Japan builds the Yamba dam. In: n-tv.de . January 22, 2015, accessed November 11, 2017 . 
34. ↑ Cabinet moving to demolish LDP policies. In: Asahi Shimbun . September 17, 2009, archived from the original on February 9, 2010 ; accessed on September 18, 2009 (English). 
35. ^ Reversal of LDP policies begins. In: The Japan Times . September 18, 2009, accessed September 18, 2009 . 
36. ↑ Cabinet to hike tax burden ¥ 980 billion. More backpedaling on campaign promises. In: The Japan Times . December 23, 2009, accessed December 23, 2009 . 
37. ↑ Record fiscal '10 budget enacted. In: The Japan Times . March 25, 2010, accessed July 7, 2010 . 
38. ^ Hike tax in tobacco: Hatoyama. In: The Japan Times . October 31, 2009, accessed November 19, 2009 . 
39. ↑ Tolls to be lifted on 1.626 km of highways. In: The Japan Times . February 3, 2010, accessed February 10, 2010 . 
40. ↑ Toll-free highway trials start. In: The Japan Times . June 28, 2010, accessed July 1, 2010 . 
41. ↑ Cabinet approves record Y92 tril budget for FY 2010. (No longer available online.) In: Japan Today. December 25, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 25, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
42. ↑ Jun Hongō: DPJ-led bloc's vote passes 2010 budget. Record-setting amount reflects campaign vows. In: The Japan Times. March 3, 2010, accessed March 3, 2010 . 
43. ↑ Cabinet OKs move to pursue World Cup. In: The Japan Times . December 9, 2009, accessed December 9, 2009 . 
44. ↑ Japan drops bid to host 2018 World Cup to aim for 2022. In: British Broadcasting Corporation . May 4, 2010, accessed November 11, 2017 . 
45. ↑ The Real Yukio Hatoyama. Japan's new prime minister could be Asia's first 'third way' leader. In: Newsweek . September 19, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
46. ↑ 'Distorted' in translation? Hatoyama denies Op-Ed piece expresses 'anti-American' view. In: The Japan Times . September 2, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
47. ↑ Japan must shake off US-style globalization. In: Christian Science Monitor . August 19, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
48. ^ Hatoyama proposes creating an 'Asian EU'. In: The Japan Times . September 23, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
49. ↑ Embassy of Japan in Germany, News from Japan, No. 60: Government statement by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in the 173rd session of Parliament on October 26, 2009 ( Memento of the original of December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (German translation) 
50. ↑ US calmly accepts end of MSDF refueling tour. In: The Japan Times . January 17, 2010, accessed February 4, 2010 . 
51. ↑ Dispatch of SDF engineers in works. In: The Japan Times . January 26, 2010, accessed February 4, 2010 . 
52. ^ Hatoyama playing risky game over Futenma. In: The Japan Times . December 10, 2009, accessed July 1, 2010 . 
53. ↑ Futenma decision shelved till 2010. Hatoyama hopes SDP stays in bloc through spring. In: The Japan Times . December 16, 2009, accessed December 16, 2009 . 
54. ^ Hatoyama axes deadline on Futenma. Resolution by May 31 said no longer needed. In: The Japan Times . May 10, 2010, accessed May 9, 2010 . 
55. ↑ Futenma goes or we exit ruling bloc: SDP. No new base in Okinawa, says Fukushima. In: The Japan Times . December 4, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 . 
56. ^ Hatoyama finds SDP joining his foes. In: The Japan Times . June 1, 2010, accessed June 1, 2010 . 
57. ↑ Hatoyama pressed to resign / DPJ heavyweights meet as calls mount for new leadership. (No longer available online.) In: The Daily Yomiuri . June 1, 2010, archived from the original on June 5, 2010 ; accessed on June 1, 2010 (English). 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.  
58. ↑ Secret pacts existed; denials 'dishonest'. Deals reached on nuclear arms entry, Okinawa reversion: panel. In: The Japan Times . March 10, 2010, accessed March 12, 2010 . 
59. ↑ Japan confirms secret pact on US nuclear transit. In: BBC News . March 9, 2010, accessed March 12, 2010 . 
60. ↑ Admitting worst-kept secrets all about timing? In: The Japan Times . March 10, 2010, accessed March 12, 2010 . 
61. ↑ Hatoyama quits as prime minister. Futenma fiasco, funds scandals proved undoing; Ozawa so out. In: The Japan Times . June 2, 2010, accessed June 2, 2010 . 
62. ↑ I have been abducted by aliens, says Japan's first lady. September 3, 2009, accessed October 2, 2019 . 
63. ↑ Japanese politician: Christianity is self-righteous  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Message from idea , November 28, 2009  
64. ↑ kingendaikeizu.net: 鳩 山 家
65. ↑ CD containing song by Hatoyama to go on sale Oct 30. (No longer available online.) In: Japan Today. October 15, 2009, archived from the original on October 15, 2009 ; accessed on April 26, 2010 (English). 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.  

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Kantei : 基本 方針 (Japanese; PDF; 183 kB), provisional English translation: Basic Principles of the Hatoyama Government
• Family Tree of the Hatoyama Brothers (Japanese)

Commons : Yukio Hatoyama  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files