Ichirō Hatoyama
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Ichirō Hatoyama 鳩山 一郎 | |
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| Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 10 December 1954 – 23 December 1956 | |
| Monarch | Shōwa |
| Preceded by | Shigeru Yoshida |
| Succeeded by | Tanzan Ishibashi |
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| Born | 1 January 1883 |
| Died | 7 March 1959 (aged 76) |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic Party (1955–1959) |
| Other political affiliations | Friends of Constitutional Government (Before 1945) Liberal Party (1945–1950) Democratic Party (1950–1955) |
| Children | Iichiro Hatoyama |
Ichirō Hatoyama (鳩山 一郎 Hatoyama Ichirō, January 1, 1883 in Tokyo – March 7, 1959) was a Japanese politician and the 52nd, 53rd and 54th Prime Minister of Japan, serving terms from December 10 1954 to March 19, 1955, from then to November 22 1955, and from then to December 23 1956.
Hatoyama was, as his name indicates, the firstborn boy. He was born into wealthy cosmopolitan family in Tokyo. His father was a Yale graduate and his mother was a famous author and the founder of a women's college.[1]
Hatoyama was elected to the House of Representatives as a Rikken Seiyūkai member in 1936. He was removed by Supreme Commander Allied Powers because they thought he had co-operated with the authoritarian government in the 1930s and 1940s, but he returned in 1951. As prime minister, he rebuilt diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union, and paroled some of the Class A war criminals who had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Tokyo Trial.
CIA files that were declassified in 2005 and then publicized in January of 2007 by the U.S. National Archives detail a plot to assassinate then prime minister Shigeru Yoshida and install a more hawkish government led by Ichiro Hatoyama in 1952.[2] The plot was never carried out.
Hatoyama was a Master Mason and a Protestant Christian (Baptist). He was Japan's third postwar Christian Prime Minister. [3]
See also
References
- ^ "Hatoyama Ichiro (prime minister of Japan) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. 1959-03-07. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
- ^ "CIA Papers Reveal Japan Coup Plot". Military.com. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
- ^ Monday, Mar. 14, 1955 (1955-03-14). "JAPAN: Land of the Reluctant Sparrows". TIME. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
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