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.
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
Naoto Kan is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan from June 2010 to September 2011.
Yukio Hatoyama
…District and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1986 representing the ruling LDP. In 1993 he left the LDP to form the New Party Sakigake with Naoto Kan, Masayoshi Takemura and Shūsei Tanaka (田中秀征). He and Kan then left to join the newly formed Democratic Party (Japan, 1996). Hatoyama and his younger…
Kan with U.S. president Barack Obama at the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit on 27 June 2010
Prime Minister Kan giving the government's speech in front of the assembled lawmakers, in the presence of the Emperor Akihito and the Empress Michiko seated in the Chamber of the House of Councillors of the National Diet (29 November 2010)
Kan giving a press conference on the day of the Fukushima nuclear accident.