Yukio Hatoyama is a 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 modern Democratic Party of Japan. Hatoyama is currently the founder and leader of Kyowa Party, a minor political party established in 2020 after he announced his return to politics.
Official portrait, 2007
Ichirō Hatoyama and his two grandsons, Yukio and Kunio
with Vladimir Putin (5 September 2000)
with Barack Obama (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 23 September 2009)
Democratic Party of Japan
The Democratic Party of Japan was a centrist to centre-left liberal or social-liberal political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016.
Headquarters of the Democratic Party of Japan