Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, walks by his campaign poster after a press briefing at party headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 31. (Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press) Yukio ...

Japan's main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama speaks during an election campaign rally for the lower house of parliament, in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Aug. 18 ...

Yukio Hatoyama, who resigned as Japan's prime minister in June 2010, was brought down by political funding scandals and his failure to fulfil an election pledge over US bases in the country. When he ...

Yukio Hatoyama, who heads the Democratic Party of Japan, will be installed as prime minister Sept. 16. Hatoyama, 62, once said of his wife: “I feel relieved when I get home.

Its leader, Yukio Hatoyama, is an uncharismatic scion of yet another established dynasty - his grandfather, Ichiro Hatoyama, took over as prime minister in 1954 from Shigeru Yoshida, who was the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and his cabinet stepped down Wednesday to pave the way for Yukio Hatoyama to take over the government. Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan claimed 308 of the 480 ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his powerful ruling party No.2 quit on Wednesday to try to boost the party's fortunes in an election next month, less than a year after sweeping to power ...

New Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama took office Wednesday, launching an untested government pledged to radically change how the nation is run and make domestic demand, not exports, the ...

Mr Hatoyama, 63, was Japan's fourth prime minister in four years. He will remain in office until a the DPJ meets on Friday to appoint a new leader who will almost certainly become prime minister.

Japan's lower house of parliament on Wednesday appointed Yukio Hatoyama as prime minister, two and a half weeks after his centre-left party ousted a long-ruling conservative government.