Kunio Hatoyama
| Kunio Hatoyama | |
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| 鳩山 邦夫 | |
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| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 27 August 2007 – 2 August 2008 |
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| Prime Minister |
Shinzō Abe Yasuo Fukuda |
| Preceded by | Jinen Nagase |
| Succeeded by | Okiharu Yasuoka |
| Minister of Labour | |
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In office 28 March 1994 – 30 June 1994 |
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| Prime Minister | Tsutomu Hata |
| Preceded by | Chikara Sakaguchi |
| Succeeded by | Mansō Hamamoto |
| Minister of Education | |
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In office 5 November 1991 – 12 December 1992 |
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| Prime Minister | Kiichi Miyazawa |
| Preceded by | Yutaka Inoue |
| Succeeded by | Mayumi Moriyama |
| Personal details | |
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13 September 1948 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | 21 June 2016 (aged 67) Tokyo, Japan |
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| Spouse(s) | Emily Hatoyama |
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| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Kunio Hatoyama (鳩山邦夫? Hatoyama Kunio, 13 September 1948 – 21 June 2016) was a Japanese politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications under Prime Minister Tarō Asō until 12 June 2009.
Kunio Hatoyama was born in Tokyo in 1948. He was a son of Yasuko Hatoyama and Iichirō Hatoyama, a bureaucrat who later became a third-generation politician, and grandson of Ichirō Hatoyama, who became the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Prime Minister of Japan between 1954 and 1956. His brother Yukio Hatoyama, also a politician and leader of the rival Democratic Party of Japan, became the country's Prime Minister in September 2009 following a landslide victory in the August 2009 election. His maternal grandfather was Shōjirō Ishibashi, founder of Bridgestone.
Hatoyama attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and graduated with a degree in political science. He wanted to get into politics right away and became an aide to Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. He ran for the House of Representatives in 1976 as a member of the New Liberal Club and entered the LDP after winning.
In 1993, he left the LDP and became a conservative independent, saying he wanted to form a new party to oppose the LDP. He was briefly Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata.
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