Kiichirō Hatoyama

[1] Hatoyama was born on 26 July 1976 in California, when his father Yukio Hatoyama, later prime minister, was studying for his PhD in operations research at Stanford University.

Following family tradition, he matriculated at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in 1995, where he chose to specialise in urban engineering after the Shingaku Furiwake.

[4] He completed his master’s degree at UTokyo in 2001 and went on to earn a PhD in transport engineering in 2007.

His thesis was entitled Guideline Formulation for Signalized Intersection Design Considering Impacts on Pedestrians' Psychology.

Beginning in 2008, he spent three years at Moscow State University as a visiting professor.

Department of Civil Engineering building at the University of Tokyo , where Hatoyama was based as a postgraduate and lecturer for more than a decade [ 2 ]