Editing Ichirō Hatoyama (section)

==Family and beliefs==
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[[File:Hatoyama family 1953.jpg|left|thumb|200px|[[Kaoru Hatoyama|Kaoru]], Iichirō, Ichirō, and Yukio.]]
Ichirō<!-- It has been suggested that his article follow Japanese usage, with given name instead of surname as the short form. --> was a [[Protestantism|Protestant Christian]]. He was Japan's third postwar [[Christianity in Japan|Christian]] [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807086-7,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901125136/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807086-7,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 September 2009|title=Land of the Reluctant Sparrows|publisher=TIME|date=14 March 1955|access-date=29 August 2009}}; [https://www.nytimes.com/1956/10/18/archives/tokyo-storm-center-ichiro-hatoyama-likes-hymnsinging.html?sq=Ichiro+hatoyama+Christian&scp=1&st=p  "Tokyo Storm Center; Ichiro Hatoyama Likes Hymn-Singing"], ''The New York Times.'' 18 October 1956.</ref>

[[Iichirō Hatoyama]], Ichirō's only son, made a career for himself as a civil servant in the Budget Bureau of the [[Ministry of Finance (Japan)|Finance Ministry]]. Iichirō retired after having achieved the rank of administrative Vice Minister.  In his second career in politics, he rose to become [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Foreign Minister of Japan]] in 1976–1977.<ref name="nyt1993">[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/20/obituaries/iichiro-hatoyama-ex-foreign-minister-75.html  "Iichiro Hatoyama; Ex-Foreign Minister, 75" (obituary)], ''The New York Times.'' 20 December 1993.</ref>

[[Image:Ichiro Hatoyama with two grandsons.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Ichirō Hatoyama, [[Yukio Hatoyama]], and [[Kunio Hatoyama]].]]
One of Ichirō's grandsons, [[Yukio Hatoyama]],  became prime minister in 2009 as a member of the [[Democratic Party of Japan]]. Another grandson [[Kunio Hatoyama]] was a prominent politician in the LDP.

During the [[Purge (During Occupation of Japan)|purge]] against Ichirō (1946–1951), he received an English book ''The Totalitarian State against Man'' originally written in German by the half-Japanese Austrian Count [[Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi]] from a professor of [[Waseda University]] Kesazō Ichimura (1898–1950) who wanted Ichirō to translate the English book into Japanese.<ref>{{cite web|date= 10 September 2004|url= http://yuaikyoukai.com/shinbun/471.pdf|title= 第471号|work= Newsletter "友愛"|publisher= Yuai Association|quote= 今朝蔵は、「この本の翻訳は鳩山一郎さんにして貰おう。 (中略) 鳩山さんは往年の優等生だから、この位の翻訳軽く出来るよ。歴代の総理大臣でこれだけの本を出版した人なんて誰もいない。その日の為にもこの翻訳をしておいて貰いたいんだ」などと一寸おしゃべりして雲場ヶ池の鳩山家の別荘に自転車で出かけて行ったそうである。|access-date= 2 May 2013|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131017042940/http://yuaikyoukai.com/shinbun/471.pdf|archive-date= 17 October 2013|df= dmy-all}}</ref> The English book struck a sympathetic chord in Ichirō, and he began to advocate fraternity, also known as yūai (友愛) in Japanese.<ref>{{cite book |last= Hatoyama|first= Ichirō|title= 鳩山一郎回顧録|year= 1957|publisher= [[Bungeishunjū]]|location= Tokyo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://yuaikyoukai.com/katudo2006_douzou1.html|title= 2006年8月 鳩山一郎・薫ご夫妻銅遷座式|publisher= Yuai Association|quote= クーデンホフカレルギーの著書に共鳴自ら「自由と人生」と題して訳出した|access-date= 2 May 2013|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140826122807/http://yuaikyoukai.com/katudo2006_douzou1.html|archive-date= 26 August 2014|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

Hatoyama founded the ''Yūai Kyōkai'' (or ''Yūai Association''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yuaikyoukai.com/english.html|title= Yuai Association|publisher= Yuai Association|access-date= 2 May 2013|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140826122803/http://yuaikyoukai.com/english.html|archive-date= 26 August 2014|df= dmy-all}}</ref>) in 1953 to promote his idea of fraternity. His widow and many of his descendants has served as officers in the association.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://yuaikyoukai.com/soshiki.html|title= 役員|publisher= Yuai Association|access-date= 2 May 2013|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140826122805/http://yuaikyoukai.com/soshiki.html|archive-date= 26 August 2014|df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://yuaikyoukai.com/iichiro.html|title= 3代目会長 鳩山 威一郎|publisher= Yuai Association|access-date= 2 May 2013|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131030071311/http://yuaikyoukai.com/iichiro.html|archive-date= 30 October 2013|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

On 29 March 1951, he was initiated as a first [[Freemasonry#Degrees|degree Freemason]],<ref>{{cite book |last= Akama|first= Gō|title= フリーメーソンの秘密 世界最大の結社の真実|year= 1983|publisher= San-ichi Publishing|location= Tokyo|page= 79}}</ref> and on 26 March 1955, passed as second degree mason, and raised to Master Mason.<ref>{{Cite web |author= Tim Wangelin|url= http://www2.gol.com/users/lodge1/history-e/papers/wangelin.html|title= Freemasonry and Modern Japanese History|work= Freemasonry in Japan|publisher= Far East Lodge No. 1|quote= On March 26, 1955, Ichiro Hatoyama and Yahachi Kawai, both Entered Apprentices (First Degree Masons), were made Fellowcrafts (Second Degeree Masons), and raised to Master Masons.|access-date=2 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= New Master Mason|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19550326&id=zFRIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hwAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=913,4699987|newspaper= [[Toledo Blade]]|date= 26 March 1955|access-date= 2 May 2013|quote= TOKYO, March 26 (AP)&mdash;Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama became a master mason today.}}</ref>