Tsutomu Hata
Tsutomu Hata | |||||||||||||||||||||
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羽田 孜 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Official portrait, 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister of Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 28 April 1994 – 30 June 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | Akihito | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Morihiro Hosokawa | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Tomiichi Murayama | ||||||||||||||||||||
| President of the Japan Renewal Party | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 23 June 1993 – 9 December 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Position established | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Position abolished | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy Prime Minister of Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Morihiro Hosokawa | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Masaharu Gotoda | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Yohei Kono | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Morihiro Hosokawa | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Kabun Muto | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Koji Kakizawa | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of Finance | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 November 1991 – 12 December 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Kiichi Miyazawa | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Ryutaro Hashimoto Toshiki Kaifu (acting) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Yoshiro Hayashi | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 27 December 1988 – 3 June 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Noboru Takeshita | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Takashi Sato | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Hisao Horinouchi | ||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 28 December 1985 – 22 July 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Yasuhiro Nakasone | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Moriyoshi Sato | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Mutsuki Kato | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of the House of Representatives | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 27 December 1969 – 16 December 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Bushirō Hata | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Yoshiyuki Terashima | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | Nagano 2nd (1969–1996) Nagano 3rd (1996–2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 24 August 1935 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 August 2017 (aged 82) Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Renewal (1993–1994) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | LDP (1969–1993) NFP (1994–1996) Sun (1996–1998) GGP (1998) DPJ (1998–2016) DP (2016–2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Yasuko Tsushita (m. 1965) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Yuichiro Hata Jiro Hata | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Alma mater | Seijo University | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Tsutomu Hata (羽田 孜, Hata Tsutomu; 24 August 1935 – 28 August 2017) was a Japanese politician who briefly served as prime minister of Japan in 1994.
Born in Tokyo, Hata graduated from Seijo University and was first elected to the National Diet in 1969. He rose to become a key member of the Liberal Democratic Party's Tanaka/Takeshita faction, and served as agriculture, forests, and fisheries minister in the 1980s and finance minister from 1991 to 1992. After Keizō Obuchi took over the faction, Hata formed the Japan Renewal Party in 1993, which joined in the anti-LDP coalition which formed Morihiro Hosokawa's government. Hata served as foreign minister, then replaced Hosokawa as prime minister when he resigned. However, the Japan Socialist Party soon left the coalition, causing it to collapse. Hata lost leadership of his party when it merged with the New Frontier Party, then formed his own Sun Party, which in turn merged with the Good Governance Party then Democratic Party in 1998. Hata became secretary-general of the party, and remained one of its senior advisors until his death.