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Yukio Hatoyama (鳩山 友紀夫, born 鳩山 由紀夫, Hatoyama Yukio, born 11 February 1947) is a Japanese retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and Leader of the Democratic Party of Japan from 2009 to 2010. He was the first Prime Minister from the modern Democratic Party of Japan.
The Yukio Hatoyama Cabinet governed Japan from September 2009 to June 2010, following the landslide victory of the Democratic Party of Japan in the general election on 30 August 2009. The election marked the first time in Japanese post-war history that voters delivered the control of the government to the opposition.
Ichirō Hatoyama 鳩山 一郎 Rep for Tokyo 1st (1883–1959) 10 December 1954 23 December 1956 2 years, 14 days — Japan Democratic: 52. Hatoyama I. I [54] 1955: 53. Hatoyama I. II [55] — Liberal Democratic: 54. Hatoyama I. III [56] Tanzan Ishibashi 石橋 湛山 Rep for Shizuoka 2nd (1884–1973) 23 December 1956 25 February 1957 65 days ...
Kan was the first Prime Minister since the resignation of Junichiro Koizumi in 2006 to serve for more than one year, with his predecessors Yukio Hatoyama, Tarō Asō, Yasuo Fukuda, and Shinzo Abe either resigning prematurely or losing an election. On 26 August 2011, Kan announced his resignation.
Under Japan's constitution, this result virtually assured DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama would be the next Prime Minister of Japan. He was formally named to the post on September 16, 2009. [ 4 ] Prime Minister Tarō Asō conceded late on the night of August 30, 2009, that the LDP had lost control of the government, and announced his resignation as ...
Its initial leaders were Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, formerly members of Sakigake. [6] At its formation, it had 39 parliamentarians. [6] The party won 52 seats in the 1996 general election, becoming the second-largest opposition party after the New Frontier Party. [7]
Democratic Party of Japan (1996–1998) (Minshutō, "Democratic Party", liberal, 1996–1998), formed by Naoto Kan Yukio Hatoyama and of New Party Harbinger, then part of the Grand Coalition with LDP and SDP, together with SDP and NFP politicians; after the dissolution of the NFP most successor parties joined the DPJ parliamentary group and ...
From its creation in 1996 until 2012 it had been represented by DPJ co-founder Yukio Hatoyama. In 2012, Hatoyama retired. In 2012, Hatoyama retired. The LDP had nominated Hokkaidō prefectural assemblyman and former Olympic speed skater Manabu Horii as their candidate in July 2012.