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【政治的指導者】 鳩山由紀夫 （Yukio Hatoyama）
イアン・ブルーマ 2010年4月29日
Yukio Hatoyama, 63, does not look like a revolutionary. Scion of an old political family and
heir to a fortune made in tires, the Japanese Prime Minister was entirely predictable in his
early career as a rising politician in the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
But while no revolutionary himself, Hatoyama has become the leader of a revolution of a kind.
He left the LDP in 1993 and started a new party, which, after merging with other groups,
finally broke the LDP's virtual monopoly on power in 2009. The party's goals — a more equal
partnership with the U.S., more power to elected politicians, more transparency — are all
commendable. But even if they are not swiftly and entirely achieved, Hatoyama has helped change
his country from a de facto one-party state into a functioning democracy. That is reason enough
for celebration.
[Ian Buruma is Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College]
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