Former Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata dies aged 82

Former Japanese Prime Minister , Tsutomu Hata, died on Monday aged 82 , Kyodo News service reported , citing unnamed sources .
Hata, who served as premier for just 64 days in 1994 , was one of the revolving -door prime ministers of the 1990 s , who followed a series of political scandals .
In 1993 , he left the long -time ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ) to launch a new party with some other influential LDP lawmakers such as Ichiro Ozawa.
Hata, who led the now-defunct Japan Renewal Party , headed a coalition government from late April to the end of June in 1994 .
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 80 th Prime Minister of Japan for 9 weeks in 1994 . And he graduated from Seijo University.