Editing Ryutaro Hashimoto (section)

==Personal life==
He was married to Kumiko Hashimoto (born 1941) (橋本 久美子 ''Hashimoto Kumiko''),<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Watanabe, Satoru |date=October 1999 |title=JAPAN AND EUROPE: SELF-IMAGES AND MUTUAL PERCEPTIONS |url=http://lookjapan.com/LBsc/99OctCul.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020504060649/http://lookjapan.com/LBsc/99OctCul.html |archive-date=4 May 2002 |access-date=1 May 2019 |magazine=[[Look Japan]]}}</ref> and the couple had two sons and three daughters: Ryu, [[Gaku Hashimoto|Gaku]], Hiroko, Atsuko, and Danko.

An exchange program between the [[Scout Association of Japan]] and the [[Boy Scouts of America]] was started in 1998, at the suggestion of then-Prime Minister Hashimoto in a 1996 meeting with U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name="scout">{{cite news|title=Boy Scout leader urges knife safety|date=9 March 1998|work=[[Japan Times]]|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn19980309b2.html |access-date=24 April 2010}}</ref> In 1998, he was presented with the [[Silver World Award]] by [[Jere Ratcliffe]], Chief Scout Executive of the [[Boy Scouts of America]], "for outstanding contributions to young people on an international level".<ref name="scout"/>