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Japanese politician
Kazuo Hatoyama
鳩山 和夫
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office
22 December 1896 – 25 December 1897
MonarchMeiji
Preceded byMasataka Kusumoto
Succeeded byKenkichi Kataoka
Personal details
Born(1856-05-06)6 May 1856
Edo, Japan
Died3 October 1911(1911-10-03) (aged 55)
Tokyo, Japan
Spouse Haruko Taga ​(m. 1881)​
Children
RelativesHatoyama family
Education

Kazuo Hatoyama (鳩山 和夫, Hatoyama Kazuo, 6 May 1856 – 3 October 1911) was a Japanese lawyer and politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1896 to 1897. He was the patriarch of the prominent Hatoyama family and father of Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama.

Early life and education

Hatoyama was born to a samurai family of the Katsuyama clan in present-day Minato, Tokyo.

He graduated from Tokyo Kaisei School in 1875. He was selected for a government-sponsored study abroad program and attended Columbia University (B.L., 1877) and Yale University Law School (M.L., 1878; D.C.L., 1880).

Career

When he returned to Tokyo in 1880, Hatoyama opened a law practice, while lecturing at the University of Tokyo, which was formed in 1877 by merging his old school and two other institutions.

He thereafter joined the Rikken Kaishintō political party founded by Ōkuma Shigenobu and became active in politics. In 1890, at Okuma's urging, he was appointed president of the Tokyo Semmon Gakko, which later became Waseda University. He headed this institution until 1907, although his title was largely honorary in nature. In 1901, he was invited to Yale for its 200th anniversary celebration, and awarded an honorary doctorate in law.

He was elected to the House of Representatives in the 1892 general election and was re-elected eight times thereafter. He became House Speaker in 1896. However, a rift developed between Hatoyama and Okuma. Although Hatoyama angled to become foreign minister in Okuma's first cabinet, he was passed over for the post and only served as Vice Minister in 1898. In April 1907, he was removed from his post at Waseda and demoted to board member status. He left the Rikken Kaishinto in January 1908 to join the rival Rikken Seiyukai party.

He was elected to the Tokyo Municipal Assembly in 1908. In 1910, he was elected President of the Tokyo Bar Association.

Family

Main article: Hatoyama family

His wife, Haruko Hatoyama, was a co-founder of what is known today as Kyoritsu Women's University. His son is former Prime Minister Ichirō Hatoyama, who founded and was the first president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). His grandson was former Foreign Minister Iichirō Hatoyama. His younger great-grandson Kunio Hatoyama served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications under Prime Minister Taro Aso until June 12, 2009. His older great-grandson Yukio Hatoyama is the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and represents the 9th district of Hokkaidō in the House of Representatives. Yukio became Prime Minister on September 16, 2009, following a win by the opposition coalition in the 2009 elections. His son-in-law was Suzuki Kisaburō, a judge, prosecutor, procurator and Minister of Justice and Home Minister.

Family tree

Hatoyama family tree
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Haruko HatoyamaKazuo Hatoyama
Kaoru HatoyamaIchirō HatoyamaHideo Hatoyama
Yasuko HatoyamaIichirō Hatoyama
Kazuko InoueMiyuki HatoyamaYukio HatoyamaEmily HatoyamaKunio Hatoyama
Kiichirō HatoyamaTarō HatoyamaJirō Hatoyama
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Residence

Hatoyama and his family resided in the Otowa neighborhood of Bunkyo, Tokyo in 1891. Following the Great Kanto Earthquake, his son Ichiro commissioned a new Western-style mansion on the site which is now known as Hatoyama Hall (鳩山会館 Hatoyama Kaikan).

Notes

  1. ^ "鳩山家の人々－鳩山会館". hatoyamakaikan.com. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  2. ^ "Hatoyama, Kazuo". ndl.go.jp. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  3. ^ "早稲田大学初代校長 鳩山和夫 ― 【外部から来た校長・学長】第2回". 早稲田ウィークリー (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-04-26 – via waseda.jp.
  4. "Japan on the brink of a new era", Asia Times, August 29, 2009.
  5. Suzuki, Miwa (2009-08-24). "Japan's first lady hopeful an outgoing TV lifestyle guru". Agence France-Presse. France 24. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  6. Haley, John Own (1998). The Spirit of Japanese Law. University of Georgia Press. p. 57. ISBN 9780820320229.
  7. ^ "歴史－鳩山会館". hatoyamakaikan.com. Retrieved 2017-04-26.

References

House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded byMasataka Kusumoto Speaker of the House of Representatives
1896–1897 		Succeeded byKenkichi Kataoka
New district Representative for Tokyo's Tokyo city district (multi-member)
1902–1911
Served alongside: Ukichi Taguchi, Soroku Ebara, numerous others 		Succeeded byMasutarō Takagi
...
Preceded byTsugutsune Yoshino Representative for Tokyo's 9th district
1892–1902 		District eliminated
Government offices
Preceded byJutarō Komura Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
1898 		Succeeded byKeiroku Tsuzuki
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