Japanese government to acknowledge the dispute between the two countries concerning sovereignty of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. On 21 March 2013, Hatoyama was appointed as the honorary chairman and a senior consultant of Hoifu Energy Group. The firm was named in the Paradise Papers, despite the leak "do not intend to suggest or imply that any people, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly", according to a disclaimer of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. In March 2015, Hatoyama visited Crimea and claimed that the referendum in Crimea was "constitutional." Hatoyama practices the Transcendental Meditation technique and delivered the Maharishi University of Management commencement address on 23 May 2015 and will be awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Hatoyama continues to display his outspokenness after his retirement from politics. He is one of the most followed Japanese current/ex-politicians on Twitter and still regularly attempts to weigh in on current affairs. Awards and honors Sustainable Development Leadership Award On 5 February 2010, Hatoyama was awarded the Sustainable Development Leadership Award of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2010. The reason for the award was "his effort to confront climate change and leading his government to make it a main issue". Time 100 In 2010, Time magazine's "Time 100" elected Hatoyama as No. 6 among the 100 most influential people in the world. It said Hatoyama had "helped change his country from a de facto one-party state into a functional democracy", through the DPJ victory in the 2009 general election. See also Hatoyama Hall References Bibliography Itoh, Mayumi (2003). The Hatoyama Dynasty: Japanese Political Leadership through the Generations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. , . . External links Official website Official Twitter account Yuai Youth Association Official website: "Yuai" for Understanding; Origin of Yuai idea – a Yuai (Fraternity) association: Yukio Hatoyama is the chairperson. (broken link) Outlines his party's philosophy of tempering the excesses of market capitalism and of moving towards regional integration and collective security in Asia. |- |- |- |- 1947 births Living people 21st-century prime ministers of Japan Stanford University alumni University of Tokyo alumni Bridgestone people Yukio Academic staff of Senshu University Japanese expatriates in the United States Japanese industrial engineers Japanese racehorse owners and breeders Liberalism in Japan Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Prime Ministers of Japan Democratic Party of Japan politicians Liberal Democratic