1955 JAPAN PRIME MINISTER Ichiro Hatoyama PRESS PHOTOGRAPH Photo JAPANESE Tokyo

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ICHIRO HATOYAMA PHOTOGRAPH
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Original 7-1/8" x 9" press photograph from March 4, 1955 showing Japan Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama.
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Ichirō Hatoyama
(
鳩山 一郎
Hatoyama Ichirō
?
, 1 January 1883 – 7 March 1959)
was a
Japanese
politician
and the 52nd,
[1]
53rd and 54th
Prime Minister of Japan
, serving terms from 10 December 1954 through 19 March 1955,
[2]
from then to 22 November 1955,
[3]
and from then through 23 December 1956.
[4]
Personal life
[
edit
]
Ichirō Hatoyama was,
as his name indicates
, the first born boy. He was born into a wealthy cosmopolitan family in Tokyo. His father
Kazuo Hatoyama
(1856–1911) was a
Yale
graduate (and Speaker of the House of Representatives) and his mother
Haruko Hatoyama
(1863–1938) was a famous author and the founder of
Kyoritsu Women's University
.
[5]
His brother
Hideo Hatoyama
was a noted jurist.
Ichirō was a
Master Mason
and a
Protestant Christian
(
Baptist
). He was Japan's third postwar
Christian
Prime Minister
.
[6]
Iichirō Hatoyama
, Ichirō's only son, made a career for himself as a civil servant in the Budget Bureau of the
Finance Ministry
. Iichirō retired after having achieved the rank of administrative Vice Minister. In his second career in politics, he rose to become
Foreign Minister of Japan
in 1976–1977.
[7]
One of Ichirō's grandsons,
Yukio Hatoyama
, became prime minister in 2009 as a member of the
Democratic Party of Japan
.
Political career
[
edit
]
Ichirō was elected to the
House of Representatives
as a
Rikken Seiyūkai
member in 1915. He was about to become prime minister in 1946, but was barred from politics for five years by
Supreme Commander Allied Powers
because they thought he had co-operated with the
authoritarian
government in the 1930s and 1940s.
[8]
He was allowed to return in 1951. As prime minister in 1955, he rebuilt
diplomatic ties
with the
Soviet Union
,
[9]
[10]
and favored parole for some of the Class A war criminals who had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the
Tokyo Trial
.
[11]
CIA
files that were declassified in 2005 and then publicized in January 2007 by the
U.S. National Archives
detail a plot by
ultranationalists
to assassinate then prime minister
Shigeru Yoshida
and install a more hawkish government led by Ichirō Hatoyama in 1952.
[12]
The plot was never carried out.
Hatoyama family and freemasonry
[
edit
]
Kaoru
, Iichirō, Ichirō, and Yukio.
Ichirō and some members of
Hatoyama family
are known as advocates of
fraternity
. During the
purge
against Ichirō (1946–1951), he received an English book
The Totalitarian State against Man
originally written in German by an Austrian
freemason
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
from a professor of
Waseda University
Kesazō Ichimura (1898–1950) who wanted Ichirō to translate the English book into Japanese.
[13]
The English book struck a sympathetic chord in Ichirō, and he began to advocate fraternity, also known as yūai (友愛) in Japanese.
[14]
[15]
On March 29, 1951, he was initiated as 1st
degree of freemason
,
[16]
and on March 26, 1955, passed as 2nd degree mason, and raised as 3rd degree mason.
[17]
[18]
Ichirō Hatoyama,
Yukio Hatoyama
, and
Kunio Hatoyama
.
His grandsons are advocates of fraternity. However, when a Japanese press asked Yukio Hatoyama's office and the
masonic grand lodge of Japan
whether Yukio Hatoyama was a freemason, his office denied it and the grand lodge of Japan didn't answer it.
[19]
At least, on his grandson
Kunio Hatoyama
, the brother of Yukio, on a Japanese TV program
Takajin no Money
on August 25, 2012,
[20]
his partner
Emily
's Australian father was a member of freemasonry. He said so, and said he had swum in a masonic pool with her at Tokyo when he had started to going steady with her. Although he didn't say he himself was a mason or not, he insisted that he had not been invited to freemasonry, and he guessed his brother Yukio as a freemason.
Yukio and Kunio became the officers of a fraternal organization named
Yūai Kyōkai
(or
Yūai Association
[21]
) with their sister
Kazuko
,
[22]
founded by their grandfather Ichirō who became the first president of the former organization in 1953. And also Ichirō's son Iichirō became the third president of the same former organization.
[23]
The granddaughter and two grandsons of Ichiro's founded a fraternal school
Hatoyama Yuai-Jyuku
at
Hatoyama Hall
(Hatoyama kaikan) on April 2008.
[24]
Honours
[
edit
]
From the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum (1959; posthumous)
See also
[
edit
]
Hatomander
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