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The 63-year-old Stanford University doctorate degree holder who steered his Democratic Party of Japan to power after elections in August, announced his decision Wednesday at a general assembly of party lawmakers after his Cabinet's approval ratings had fallen below 20 percent from a high of more than 70 percent when it took office.
Hatoyama said he would leave ahead of next month's upper house parliamentary elections
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The DPJ needs to do well in the upper house elections to win passage of critical legislation as Japan comes out of its worst post-World War II recession.
Kyodo reported Hatoyama cited the scandals and the dispute over the U.S. Marine base relocation. In the accord announced last week
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Hatoyama becomes the fourth Japanese prime minister in a row who did not complete more than a year in office
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He said party Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa would also resign "for the sake of establishing a new and cleaner Democratic Party of Japan."
Hatoyama had come under growing pressure from his party lawmakers to resign. The other member of the ruling coalition is the People's New Party. The DPJ has a comfortable majority in the lower house.
The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party called for general elections with its leader saying Hatoyama's resignation has not solved any problem
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