Japan PM candidate son to offer Moscow traffic jam issue solution.

MOSCOW, September 1 (Itar-Tass) - The son of candidate for Japanese
prime minister's post Yukio Hatoyama - Kiichiro - plans to offer the
Moscow authorities a solution to the problem of the city's traffic jams.

Rector of Moscow State University (MGU) Viktor Sadovnichy told Itar-Tass
on Tuesday.
The MGU rector specified that "Kiichiro is a trainee at the MGU higher
school of business and is preparing a work on problems of traffic jams in
Moscow." "The Moscow authorities know that this problem is being studied,"
Sadovnichy noted. "Kiichiro is studying the matter from the scientific
viewpoint," he said. "It seems to me," the rector noted, that "he very
attentively looks at what is happening in Moscow." "We are on very
friendly terms with him," Sadovnichy added. "We fly together over Moscow
in a helicopter, he is seriously interested in logistics," the MGU rector
said.
Sadovnichy noted that Kiichiro could perhaps study at any other
university, but he is interested in Russia.
His father Yukio Hatoyama heads the Democratic Party of Japan that has
won the country's general elections held on Sunday.
Yukio Hatoyama (born 11 February 1947) is the Prime Minister-designate
of Japan and the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and
represents the 9th district of Hokkaido in the House of Representatives.
He is set to become the next Prime Minister of Japan in September 2009,
following a win by the opposition coalition in the 2009 elections.
Hatoyama ran for a seat in Hokkaido's 38th district and was elected to
the House of Representatives in 1986 representing the ruling LDP. In 1993
he left the LDP to form the New Party Sakigake with Naoto Kan, Masayoshi
Takemura and Shuhei Tanaka. He and Kan then left to join the newly formed
Democratic Party of Japan.
Hatoyama and his younger brother, Kunio Hatoyama, co-created the
Democratic Party of Japan (DJP) in 1996, using billions of yen donated by
their mother, Yasuko. Kunio Hatoyama eventually left the DJP, saying the
party had drifted too far to the left from its original centrist roots,
and rejoined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Yukio remained with the
party through its merger with several other opposition parties in 1998.
He became the DPJ Party Chairman and leader of the opposition from
1999 to 2002, when he resigned after taking responsibility for the
confusion that arose from rumours of mergers with Ichiro Ozawa's then
Liberal Party. He was Secretary-General of the DPJ before he succeeded
Ozawa as party leader following Ozawa's resignation on 11 May 2009.
Hatoyama was chosen by fellow party representatives on 16 May 2009,
winning 124 of the 219 votes and defeating rival Katsuya Okada.
Hatoyama has indicated that his wife, Miyuki Hatoyama, will take a
prominent role for a Japanese First Lady during his administration.
Hatoyama comes from a prominent Japanese political family, which has
been called "Japan's Kennedy family."
Hatoyama, who was born in Tokyo, is a fourth generation politician.
His paternal great-grandfather, Kazuo Hatoyama, was speaker of the House
of Representatives of the Diet of Japan from 1896 to 1897 during the Meiji
era. Kazuo later served as the president of Waseda University. His
paternal great-grandmother, Haruko Hatoyama, was a co-founder of what is
known today as Kyoritsu Women's University. His paternal grandfather,
former Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama, was a founder and the first
president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DJP).