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...RESIGNED. YUKIO HATOYAMA, 55, president of the Democratic Party of Japan?the country's largest opposition party?and grandson of former Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama; in Tokyo. Although Hatoyama has headed the DPJ since its inception in 1996, he has recently come under fire for the party's high-profile internal struggles and waning popularity. His sudden downfall last week followed a botched attempt to merge with another political party...
...ELECTED. YUKIO HATOYAMA, 55, as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition party; after a closely contested runoff against party Secretary-General Naoto Kan; in Tokyo. Despite holding a quarter of the seats in Japan's Diet, a recent newspaper poll showed that that djp is supported by less than 10% of the public...
...Finnish mother and a Japanese father who became a Lutheran clergyman. A child prodigy on the violin, he studied conducting at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. Unabashedly trading on the influence of his father-in-law, Japan's then Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, Watanabe founded the Japan Philharmonic in 1956, staffed it with young Japanese musicians and one American, Concertmaster Broadus Erie, founder of Manhattan's New Music String...
...Democratic Party made up of a dissident segment of Yoshida's Liberals and a group of "progressives." But he was able to overthrow Yoshida only by entering into an alliance with the Socialists-even though his ultimate aim was to create an anti-Socialist force. Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama, who succeeded Yoshida, had suffered a stroke, and hung on for two trembling years before resigning. He was followed by Tanzan Ishibashi, who appointed Kishi his Foreign Minister and then fell ill in turn and resigned within 63 days. On Feb. 25, 1957, at the head of a combined Democratic...
Died. Ichiro Hatoyama, 76, onetime (1954-56) Prime Minister of Japan; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. A peppery parliamentarian who in earlier days often got into fist fights in the Diet, Hatoyama would have become Premier in 1946 had he not been purged by Douglas MacArthur for his prewar militarist sympathies. He was depurged in 1951. As Prime Minister, he visited Moscow in 1956, formally ended the official state of Russo-Japanese hostility that had lingered on from World War II, opened the way for Japan's membership...