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- The Hatoyama family is a prominent political family. Members include:
- Kazuo Hatoyama (1856-1911), Vice-Foreign Minister, Diet of Japan, University of Tokyo professor, principal of Waseda University, father of Ichirō Hatoyama and great-grandfather of Yukio Hatoyama and Kunio Hatoyama
- Haruko Hatoyama, co-founder of Kyoritsu Women's University; mother of Ichirō Hatoyama and great-grandmother of Yukio and Kunio Hatoyama
- Ichirō Hatoyama (1883-1959), Secretary of the Cabinet, Minister of Education, and Prime Minister of Japan.
- Kaoru Hatoyama, schoolmaster of Kyoritsu Women's University; wife of Ichirō, mother of Iichirō
- Iichirō Hatoyama (1918-1993), Foreign Minister of Japan, eldest son of Ichirō Hatoyama and father of Yukio Hatoyama and Kunio Hatayama
- Yasuko Hatoyama (born 1922), wife of Iichirō, mother of Kazuko, Yukio and Kunio
- Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan, former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, grandson of Ichirō Hatoyama, son of Iichirō Hatoyama and older brother of Kunio
- Kunio Hatoyama, former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, Minister of Education, Labour, and Justice; grandson of Ichiro Hatoyama, son of Iichirō Hatoyama and younger brother of Yukio
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