安子 (石橋) 鳩山 (1922 - 2013)

Born 11 Sep 1922 in 日本福岡県久留米市

Ancestors

Wife of 威一郞 鳩山 — married 1942 in 日本東京都

Descendants

Died 11 Feb 2013 at age 90 in 日本東京都

Biography

安子 (石橋) 鳩山 is Notable.

Ishibashi Yasuko was born in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture on 11 September 1922, the daughter of Ishibashi Shōjirō, the founder of Bridgestone, and Ishida Masako. She attended middle and high school in Tokyo.

During her education, Yasuko met her future husband, Hatoyama Iichirō, who later became the Foreign Minister of Japan under Prime Minister Fukuda Takeo. They married at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on 23 November 1942. They had three children together during their marriage. Their youngest child, a son named Kunio, was born in 1948. Kunio was the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications until 2009.

In 1996, Yasuko helped her two sons fund their new political party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). Later on, it was revealed that she donated ¥15 million per month to her oldest son for seven to eight years. Per 2011 sources, Yasuko gave ¥4.2 billion to each of her two sons. She died in Tokyo on 1 February 2013 at the age of 90.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "Hatoyama family matriarch dies at 90." The Japan Times. Accessed 1 May 2017.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Yasuko Hatoyama
• Wikidata: Item Q4476614, en:Wikipedia