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Ichiro Hatoyama

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Ichiro Hatoyama , 1883-1959, Japanese statesman. A graduate of the law school of Tokyo Imperial Univ., he was first elected to the lower house of the Japanese legislature in 1915. Hatoyama was education minister in the Inukai and Saito cabinets (1931-34). A leader of the prewar Seiyukai party, he organized the conservative postwar Liberal party and became its first president. In a series of moves he formed the Democratic party and became prime minister, deposing Shigeru Yoshida and forming three successive cabinets (1954-56). Author not available, HATOYAMA, ICHIRO. , The Columbia... Read more

Minseito
...parties were dissolved in 1940. After World War II, the Minseito reemerged under the leadership of Shigeru Yoshida and Ichiro Hatoyama as the Liberal party, one of the two strong conservative groups in postwar Japan. It merged with the Democrats in... Read more

Eisaku Sato
...serve the state. Sato's eldest brother, Ichiro, became a rear admiral, retiring just...the conservatives, was unseated by Ichiro Hatoyama. The following year Yoshida's Liberal party merged with Hatoyama's conservatives to form the Liberal-Democrat... Read more

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	Japan's long march. (democracy in Japan) ; ...and became prime minister in the 1950s. But the elder Hatoyama's pluralist ideals have had to wait until now, the...grandsons, to begin to be realised. Recently Kunio Hatoyama held a party in the family home, a mansion built (fittingly...the kind of stable two-party democracy that the elder Hatoyama ... Read more
	Abe deflects DPJ, still coy on shrine, tax: Opposition can't nail down clarification. ; ...Party of Japan Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama charged head-on at Abe, the president...and not one requiring clarification. Hatoyama, grilling Abe in place of DPJ President Ichiro Ozawa, who has been hospitalized, further...fundamental rules or public pledges, Hatoyama said. DPJ Policy Research ... Read more
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	CIA records reveal Japan coup plot ; ...Yoshida, and install a more hawkish government led by Ichiro Hatoyama. The CIA, in papers released under an act of the U...pushed out of office peacefully in 1954 and replaced by Hatoyama, but the ultrarightist dream of resurrecting a militarist... Read more

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