鳩山安子さん死去

鳩山元首相の母・安子さん死去、９０歳

　民主党の鳩山由紀夫元総理、自民党の鳩山邦夫元総務大臣の母親でゴッドマザーの異名をとった鳩山安子さんが１１日夜、都内の病院で亡くなりました。９０歳でした。

　鳩山安子さんはブリヂストン創業者の石橋正二郎氏の長女として生まれ、鳩山一郎元総理の長男で福田赳夫内閣で外務大臣を務めた鳩山威一郎氏と結婚、長男の鳩山由紀夫元総理と次男の邦夫元総務大臣の兄弟２人の政治家を育てました。

　資産家としても知られ、２００９年には由紀夫氏への巨額献金問題が批判を浴びました。

　１週間ほど前から体調を崩し、都内の病院に入院、１１日午後９時１５分、多臓器不全のため９０歳で亡くなりました。（12日00:11）

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Emily, the wife of former Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama, is the daughter of an Australian Occupation-era sergeant, Jimmy Beard, who was able to remain in Japan.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Barring the people needed
By GREGORY CLARK

Barring the people needed | The Japan Times Online via kwout

Postscript: Ironically, Emily, the wife of former Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama, is the daughter of an Australian Occupation-era sergeant, Jimmy Beard, who was able to remain in Japan because he was married to a Japanese national. Indeed, he was forced to remain since at the time Canberra was busily barring entry to Japanese married to Australians.

Later, the ex-sergeant and his family were cruelly satirized by Australian author Hal Porter, who was paid by Canberra in the early 1960s to write about postwar Japan. Porter saw mixed marriages in "racist" Japan as doomed to failure. Meanwhile, Emily's sister, Margery, who has since married into the Bridgestone Tire family, now works tirelessly for Japan-Australia cultural relations.