Resources
provided through this website were developed by Leonard Schoppa.
Hatoyama
Inaugurates DPJ-led Cabinet (September 2009) – my own list of
cabinet members shows their party-lineage.Three are former Japan Socialist Party
members, and two were once members of the union-supported Democratic
Socialist Party.Most were once LDP
members.To see how and when the
various strands came together into the Democratic Party of Japan, see this DPJ History.