Former Japanese Prime Minister Dies At 82
Kyodo News service reports the death of former Japanese Prime Minister, Tsutomu Hata, on Monday aged 82.
Hata, served as premier for just 64 days in 1994, and was one of the revolving-door prime ministers of the 1990s, who followed a series of political scandals.
Hata was first elected as a House of Representatives member from Nagano prefecture in 1969 and served as agriculture minister, finance minister and foreign minister between 1988 and 1994.
He retired from politics in 2012.
Hata was born in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 1935 and the 80th Prime Minister of Japan for 9 weeks in 1994. And he graduated from Seijo University.
