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When you think of the Japanese surname "Hatoyama", who comes to mind first? Many people may think of Yukio Hatoyama, and a little more may mention his ancestors and fathers, but they are all from this family.
Is there any other Hatoyama family in Japan?
(Yukio Hatoyama)
And the interesting thing is that whether it is Chinese film and television works, or novels and operas, there are few little devils with the surname Hatoyama in the description of the anti-Japanese plot, just because of one thing: the Hatoyama family did not participate in the war of aggression against China, and their family is still a pro-China representative of Japan.
Some people may say "Red Lantern", in this widely spread Peking Opera, the villain leader is called Hatoyama. But it is precisely because of this Japanese officer named Hatoyama that Yukio Hatoyama was very distressed, and even sued the "complaint" to Premier Zhou, what is going on?
1. Is it really the only one?
Many people will be surprised to say that there is only one family name in Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, and that there is only one family surname "Hatoyama"? You must know that in China, there are almost 100 million people with the surname Li and Chen, and even those small surnames have many families.
(Emperor Meiji)
However, in Japan, it is different, because the fact that Japanese civilians have surnames is actually a thing that only exists in modern times, and in ancient times, Japanese people did not have surnames, only first names. It was not until 1870, during the Meiji Restoration, that the government issued a decree allowing civilians to have surnames in order to levy taxes on soldiers, and then even directly forced civilians to have surnames.
Therefore, the family in Japan today is at most counting up to a few generations, and then it will be broken, for example, the Hatoyama family that we are going to talk about today, counting from Yukio Hatoyama upwards, there are only three generations. Therefore, it is very reliable to say that there is only one "Hatoyama" in the Yukio family of Hatoyama in the whole of Japan.
(Red Lantern)
For Chinese, it is not the politicians of the Hatoyama family who let the surname "Hatoyama" spread throughout China, but a classic Peking Opera - "Red Lantern Notes", in this Peking opera, the captain of the Japanese gendarmerie is called "Hatoyama", because of the importance of this role, the surname Hatoyama is also well-known.
But the surname "Hatoyama" spread in China in this way, which made the people of the Hatoyama family very embarrassed, so the Hatoyama family communicated with the Chinese side several times, hoping to change some of the names in "Red Lantern", what is going on?
Second, there was really no invasion of China
In 1978, Tokuma Utsunomiya, a well-known Japanese social activist and chairman of the headquarters of the Japan-China Friendship Association at that time, visited China and held cordial and friendly talks with Deng Yingchao, who represented the Chinese side.
(Utsunomiya Tokuma)
This Kunio Hatoyama is Yukio Hatoyama's younger brother, and the two are only one year apart. When meeting with Deng Yingchao, Kunio Hatoyama talked about "Red Lantern", and he said that he needed to clarify some facts, that is, the Hatoyama family did not invade China in history, so he hoped that the Chinese side could change the name of the character "Hatoyama" in "Red Lantern".
"Why is this person called Hatoyama? Why don't you change the surname that is common and widely used in Japan?"
(Kunio Kachiyama)
After listening to Kunio Hatoyama's words, Deng Yingchao knew that the surname Hatoyama was so special, and the Hatoyama family cared so much about the name of a character in a play.
Deng Yingchao also realized that Kunio Hatoyama had a lot of words at the beginning, first talking about his father's friendship with Premier Zhou, and later talking about the family's fate with China, for his own identity, he wanted to "rehabilitate" the Hatoyama family. So she immediately made a decision and asked the Minister of Culture to call if she could change the name.
And long before Kunio Hatoyama, Yukio Hatoyama had tried this matter, once Yukio Hatoyama came to China with the Japanese negotiation delegation, met Premier Zhou in Beijing, and faced his old man, Yukio Hatoyama asked the same question.
(Deng Yingchao)
However, the Ministry of Culture's answer disappointed the Hatoyama family, because the captain of the gendarmerie named Hatoyama was really a household name and could not be changed. In 2009, Yukio Hatoyama, as prime minister, visited China, reiterating the Hatoyama family's pro-China stance.
According to Japanese news, in Chinese film and television dramas after that, there are few Japanese villains with the surname "Hatoyama", which is a special arrangement. China's arrangement is also a way to respect the proposal of the Hatoyama family, and it is also a way to respect history, because in history, the Hatoyama family can be said to be a veritable pro-China family in Japan.
3. Pro-China families
In today's Japan, there are five major political families, and the Hatoyama family is one of them, and there is a saying that there are already members of the Hatoyama family when the Japanese parliament is in Japan, which is enough to explain the status of the Hatoyama family in the Japanese political arena. And the unique thing is that the Hatoyama family, which has a history of more than 150 years, is a representative of Japan's pro-China.
(Kazuo Kachiyama)
The first generation of politicians of the Hatoyama family was Kazuo Hatoyama, the great-grandfather of Yukio Hatoyama, who was the first batch of Japanese students to study in the United States, and was the most Western-minded person in Japan at that time, who mediated the conflict between the Beiyang Fleet and the Japanese military and civilians in 1886, and became the first person in the Hatoyama family to have contact with the Chinese.
(The Xiangshan Family)
He then served as president of Waseda University, where he actively supported Chinese students studying in Japan, recruiting 762 Chinese students, the largest of any university in Japan.
And the second generation of the Hatoyama family's pro-Chinese name, named Hatoyama Ichiro, his achievements are the largest in the entire family, directly becoming the prime minister of Japan, and he has formed a cabinet three times. During World War II, he was a well-known "leader" in Japan who opposed Hideki Tojo, and he was at odds with the Japanese military circles.
In the third generation, it was Hatoyama Weiichiro, who did not rise to a high position like his father, but he made no small contribution to the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. Beginning in 1974, the Hatoyama family established the Japan Friendship Youth Association, and under the leadership of Hatoyama Weiichiro, he devoted himself to Sino-Japanese friendship work, and successively sent pro-annual representatives to visit China three times, promoting Sino-Japanese non-governmental exchanges.
(Ichiro Kachiyama)
As for Yukio Hatoyama, his contribution to Sino-Japanese relations lies in apologizing as a public figure to the Chinese who have been harmed by the Japanese invasion of China. It has always believed that Japan should confirm historical problems and be responsible for the victims.
In 2013, Yukio Hatoyama came to Nanjing, and during his visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, he folded his hands several times to express his silence and bowed in silence to the victims in the memorial square.
After the visit, Hatoyama also wrote an inscription for the memorial hall "Friendship and Peace", and in order to express this good wish, he also changed the word "from" to "friend" when he signed his name.
(Yukio Hatoyama who came to China)
And in 2015, while in South Korea, he knelt down directly to express his condolences to the anti-Japanese fighters of that year. This has also made him the "only" so far, so many prime ministers, he has done this.
Today, Yukio Hatoyama and the Hatoyama family are still campaigning for Sino-Japanese friendship, and what they said about "the Hatoyama family did not invade China" is indeed a definite statement.
References:
Deciphering the Chinese Story of the Hatoyama Family: Yukio Doesn't Worship Yasukuni Shrine.phoenix.com,2009-09-04
Former Prime Minister of Japan: I apologize for the crimes committed by the Japanese soldiers.China Today,2013-01-17
There are no soldiers who invaded China in the family tree of Hatoyama.Tonglu News Network,2013-02-07