Ichirō Hatoyama

Prime Minister of Japan

1 January 1883 Tokyo City, Japan

7 March 1959(1959-03-07) (76) Bunkyō, Japan

10 December 1954 – 23 December 1956

Japanese politician Not to be confused with Iichirō Hatoyama. Ichirō Hatoyama (鳩山 一郎 , Hatoyama Ichirō, 1 January 1883 – 7 March 1959) was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1954 to 1956. A conservative, Hatoyama helped oversee the 1955 merger of the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party to create the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), of which Hatoyama was the first party president and first prime minister, and which would go on to rule Japan for most of the next seven decades. As prime minister, Hatoyama's signature achievement was restoring official diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, which had been in abeyance since World War II.