Kunio Hatoyama
Kunio Hatoyama (Japanese鸠 山 邦夫, Kunio Hatoyama, * September 13, 1948 ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, and a former minister.
Life
Hatoyama is a graduate of Tokyo University and since 1976 with the exception of the years 1979 to 1980 and from 1999 to 2000 deputy in Shūgiin, first for the three- mandate constituency Tokyo 8, after the electoral reform, first in the new Einmandatswahlkreis Tokyo 2 He first belonged to the ruling LDP, the he joined the parliament in 1980 after his second choice. Within the party he belongs to the Tsushima faction. However, he had left the party in 1993 and was with his brother Yukio in the founding of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ ) involved 1996. In 1999 he resigned his parliamentary seat down and ran to succeed Yukio Aoshima in the gubernatorial election in Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara clear but lost. While his brother was chairman of the DPJ between 1999 and 2002, Kunio Hatoyama left the party in 2000 and returned to the LDP. For this, he moved at the 2003 election to the 18th electoral district in the west of the prefecture, but lost clearly DPJ co-founder Naoto Kan and was re-elected on the proportional representation block. Since the 2005 election, Hatoyama candidate in the 6th constituency Fukuoka, not in Tokyo.
From 1991 to 1992, Hatoyama was Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. After his party outlet 1994 he became Minister of Labour in the Cabinet Hata for the fraction Kaikaku no Kai (改革 の 会, "Reform Meeting"). Back in the LDP Shinzō Abe appointed him in August 2007, shortly before his resignation to the Minister of Justice. In the reshuffle in August 2008 he was replaced by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda by Okiharu Yasuoka.
In his tenure as Justice Minister Hatoyama authorized 13 hangings and thus the most executions by a single minister since the four-year non-application of the death penalty between 1989 and 1993.
In September 2008, Prime Minister Taro Aso, appointed him as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in his first cabinet. In the dispute over a possible renewal of the Board of Management of private law JP Group, which is still owned by the state, Hatoyama resigned on June 12, 2009. Hatoyama was considered an important intra-party ally ASOS. A conversion to the Democratic Party, which is in May 2009 again under the chairmanship of his brother Yukio, he refused, but she did not rule out a withdrawal from the LDP.
2009 became known in connection with the donations scandal involving his brother Yukio Hatoyama Kunio that had received billions of dollars from his mother between 2003 and 2008 as his brother.
In March 2010, Hatoyama left the LDP. A collaboration with his brother Yukio, he graduated from the Government of which he criticized as " socialist." He announced the formation of a new party to, for he wants to win the LDP politician Kaoru Yosano and Yōichi Masuzoe, but remained during the Parteiumbildungen to 2012 no party affiliation.
After the 2012 election Shūgiin Hatoyama returned end of December 2012 back to the LDP.
Family
Hatoyama's grandfather was Hatoyama Ichirō 1954-1956 Prime Minister of Japan and the founding chairman of the LDP. His great-grandfather, Kazuo Hatoyama was already deputy and president of the Shūgiin. Kunio Hatoyama Hatoyama Iichirō father was from 1976 to 1977 Japanese Foreign Minister and also LDP member, his mother is a daughter of Shojiro Ishibashi, Bridgestone - founder. His wife Emily halbaustralische Takami is a former model; their son was taro 2003-2005 Member of the Tokyo Prefecture Parliament and competes at the 2010 Sangiin - election as the candidate of Shinto Kaikaku for a national mandate.