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Hata Tsutomu

Tsutomu Hata
羽田 孜
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51st Prime Minister of Japan
In office
28 April 1994 – 30 June 1994
Monarch Akihito
Preceded by Morihiro Hosokawa
Succeeded by Tomiichi Murayama
Deputy Prime Minister of Japan
In office
9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa
Preceded by Masaharu Kotoda
Succeeded by Yohei Kono
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa
Preceded by Kabun Muto
Succeeded by Koji Kakizawa
Minister of Finance
In office
5 November 1991 – 12 December 1992
Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa
Preceded by Toshiki Kaifu
Acting
Succeeded by Yoshiro Hayashi
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
In office
27 December 1988 – 3 June 1989
Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita
Preceded by Takashi Sato
Succeeded by Hisao Horinouchi
In office
28 December 1985 – 22 July 1986
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded by Moriyoshi Sato
Succeeded by Mutsuki Kato
Personal details
Born (1935-08-24) 24 August 1935 (age 81)
Tokyo, Japan
Political party Democratic Party (1998–present)
Other political
affiliations
Liberal Democratic Party (Before 1993)
Renewal Party (1993–1994)
New Frontier Party (1994–1996)
Sun Party (1996–1998)
Good Governance Party (1998)
Spouse(s) Ayako Hata
Children Yuichiro Hata
Alma mater Seijo University

Tsutomu Hata (羽田 孜?, Hata Tsutomu, born 24 August 1935) is a Japanese politician and was the 80th Prime Minister of Japan for 9 weeks in 1994. He was a member of the lower house representing Nagano #3 district. He was elected 14 times, retiring in 2012.

He was born in Tokyo on August 24, 1935, a son of the Liberal Democratic Party Member of Parliament Bushiro Hata. Hata graduated from Seijo University and was employed by the Odakyu bus company from 1958 to 1969. In 1969, he entered the House of Representatives of Japan, representing Nagano Prefecture as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He rose to become a top lieutenant in the Tanaka/Takeshita faction in the 1980s.

In 1991, he served as Minister of Finance under Kiichi Miyazawa. He left the LDP in 1993 to found the Japan Renewal Party with longtime LDP ally Ichirō Ozawa, which became part of Morihiro Hosokawa's anti-LDP coalition government later that year. Hata served as foreign minister in the Hosokawa cabinet.

On 28 April 1994, Hosokawa resigned and Hata became prime minister. However, the Japan Socialist Party had recently left the coalition, destroying its majority in the Diet. Rather than face a vote of no confidence, Hata elected to resign in June, allowing SDP leader Tomiichi Murayama to take over the position on 30 June.


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