Kiichirō Hatoyama
Kiichirō Hatoyama | |
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鳩山 紀一郎 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives for Tokyo PR | |
| Assumed office November 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 July 1976 California, US |
| Political party | Democratic Party for the People (since 2023) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Yukio Hatoyama Miyuki Hatoyama |
| Relatives | Hatoyama family |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo (BEng, MEng, PhD) |
Kiichirō Hatoyama (鳩山 紀一郎, Hatoyama Kiichirō, born 26 July 1976) is a Japanese academic and politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since November 2024.[1]
Background and academic career
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Hatoyama was born on 26 July 1976 in California, when his father Yukio Hatoyama, later prime minister, was studying for his PhD in operations research at Stanford University.[3] Hatoyama is a member of the Hatoyama family, and his other notable relations include former his great grandfather Ichirō Hatoyama, prime minister of Japan and the founder of the Liberal Democratic Party, Ichirō's father Kazuo Hatoyama, prominent jusrist and politician in Meiji era Japan, and Ichirō's son Iichirō Hatoyama.
Hatoyama was educated at the Gakushuin Junior High School and Senior High School at Komaba, University of Tsukuba. Following family tradition, he matriculated at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in 1995, where he chose to specialise in urban engineering after the Shingaku Furiwake. During his time at UTokyo, he was a cellist in the university orchestra.[4] He completed his master’s degree at UTokyo in 2001 and went on to earn a PhD in transport engineering in 2007. His thesis was entitled Guideline Formulation for Signalized Intersection Design Considering Impacts on Pedestrians' Psychology.[5]
He remained at his alma mater as assistant professor and lecturer until 2017, when he was appointed associated professor at Nagaoka University of Technology. Beginning in 2008, he spent three years at Moscow State University as a visiting professor.[6]
Political career
[edit]He is a member of the Democratic Party for the People, having joined in 2023.[7] He was first elected in the 2024 Japanese general election for the Tokyo proportional representation block. He lost his Tokyo 2nd district contest to the incumbent, but was elected via the PR block after getting enough votes (73.4% sekihairitsu) to obtain his party's last block seat.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "2024衆議院総選挙ー東京ブロック 国民民主党" [2024 House of Representatives general election - Tokyo PR block - Democratic Party for the People] (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
- ^ "Kiichiro HATOYAMA". www.trip.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ Hatoyama, Yukio (1977). "Markov Maintenance Models with Control of Queue". 日本オペレーションズ・リサーチ学会論文誌. 20 (3): 164–181. doi:10.15807/jorsj.20.164.
- ^ "Kiichiro HATOYAMA". www.trip.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ 鳩山, 紀一郎 (2007). 歩行者の心理的負荷を重視した総合的な信号交差点設計・制御ガイドラインの構築に関する研究 (PhD Thesis thesis). 東京大学.
- ^ "鳩山 紀一郎 | 研究者情報 | J-GLOBAL 科学技術総合リンクセンター". jglobal.jst.go.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ "鳩山元首相の長男、国民民主から立候補へ 衆院東京2区" [Former Prime Minister Hatoyama's eldest son stands as a DPFP candidate for Tokyo 2nd district in the House of Representatives] (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. 11 December 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2024.