House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on July 11, 2010. In the previous elections in 2007 the Liberal Democratic Party had lost its majority to the Democratic Party, which managed to gain
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Yukio Hatoyama
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Yukio Hatoyama is a retired Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and leader of the Democratic Party of Japan from 2009 to 2010. He was the first Prime Minister from the party.
2010 Japanese House of Councillors election
…left the party prior to the election. However, the DPJ's popularity had been negatively impacted by fundraising scandals surrounding its president Yukio Hatoyama and secretary general Ichiro Ozawa, both of whom resigned on June 2, 2010. Naoto Kan became prime minister after Hatoyama's resignation and proposed a…
Official portrait, 2007
Ichirō Hatoyama and his two grandsons, Yukio and Kunio
Hatoyama with Vladimir Putin (5 September 2000)
Hatoyama meeting with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on 14 December 2009