Hataiyama Ichiro: A Character of Ambivalence

Hataiyama Ichiro grew up in the shadow of his father's political career. His grandfather, Hataiyama Kazuo, was a reluctant politician who was more focused on the law than politics. He didn't immediately run for his own father's seat in the diet because he wasn't yet old enough to do so when his father died. After graduation from where else but the Tokyo Imperial University School of Law,. he decided to join a different wing of the public service, the bureaucracy.