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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Kunio Hatoyama |
| Address |
Fukuoka, Kyushu , Japan |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
September 13, 1948
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| Died | June 21, 2016
(67 years)
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Jan 22, 2017 02:15am |
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| Info | Kunio Hatoyama was first elected to the House of Representatives with the New Liberal Club in 1976, and joined the Liberal Democratic Party after the two merged. He left the LDP in 1993, first sitting as an Independent and then joining the conservative reformist New Frontier Party, in hopes of forming a new party to oppose the LDP, whom he felt had become corrupt with power. In 1996, he helped create the Democratic Party with Naoto Kan and his brother Yukio Hatoyama, but after several years returned to the LDP as he felt the Democrats had moved too far to the left from its centrist roots (Yukio remains a major figure in the Democratic Party). Kunio was elected to his ninth term in 2003 to a Tokyo multi-member district, but moved to run in Fukuoka in Prime Minister Koizumi's 2005 snap elections. He defeated incumbent Democrat Issei Koga with 52% of the vote.
The Hatoyama brothers are among the most influential politicians in Japan, coming from a political family often compared to the Kennedy family of the United States. Their paternal great grandfather, Kazuo Hatoyama, served as Speaker of the House during the imperial Meiji period; their grandfather, Ichiro Hatoyama, served as Prime Minister in the mid-1950s; their father, Iichiro Hatoyama, was a legislator and Foreign Minister in the late 1970s; and their mother is the heiress to the Bridgestone tire company.
Rep. Hatoyama graduated from Tokyo University in 1972 with a degree in Law.
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