
is the current Prime Minister of Japan. In June 2010, as Finance Minister, Kan was elected as the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan and was designated Prime Minister by the Diet to succeed Yukio Hatoyama. » Read more on Wikipedia.org

is the current Prime Minister of Japan. In June 2010, as Finance Minister, Kan was elected as the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan and was designated Prime Minister by the Diet to succeed Yukio Hatoyama. » Read more on Wikipedia.org
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Seven decades on, Japan looks for WWII remains 2013-04-09 Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is pictured at the Chidorigafuchi cemetery for the war dead in Tokyo on February 15, 2011. Kan launched a three-year project in 2010 to find remains on Iwoto island, the site of one of bloodiest battles at the ... (FRANCE 24) | ||
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Two years after Fukushima nuclear accident, work resumes on new reactor 2013-03-17 Those in Oma largely maintained their backing for nuclear power post-Fukushima, looking with detachment at 100,000-strong antinuclear protests in Tokyo and watching with concern as then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan, in July 2011, said nuclear power was a ... (The News Journal) | ||
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Fukushima isn't Chernobyl? 2013-03-15 Trusting in the judgment of the teachers—and in the reassurances issued by the then Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the Secretary General that “there will not be immediate health impacts”—the children in Koriyama continued going to school. The young ... (CounterPunch) | ||
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Road to Fukushima fraught with ongoing tragedy and innovations ignored 2013-03-12 “With the German nuclear phase out [by 2022], it is clear we are in a position to do this all over the world.” But prospects for that here look bleak. The government of former Prime Minister Naoto Kan promised a nuclear black-out by 2040. But the pro ... (Bellona)
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Kan cites 'God's help' in containing nuclear crisis 2013-03-12 NEW YORK – Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan said in a videotaped message shown Monday at a symposium in New York that the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was “one step away from the worst situation” and that catastrophe was ... (The Japan Times)
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Tokyo demonstrates in force against nuclear power on eve of Fukushima's ... 2013-03-10 One such politician was former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who lost his post largely due to his handling of the Fukushima crisis, but who has re-emerged as a member of parliament as a staunch anti-nuclear advocate. Abe overturned Kan's promise to make ... (Bellona) | ||
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LESSON FROM THE NUCLEAR DISASTER: Too much focus on laws and ... 2013-03-08 However, the head of the agency failed to function after being yelled at by Prime Minister Naoto Kan. There were many items that had to be taken care of, including sending officials to the local response headquarters and dealing with the barrage of ... (Asahi Shimbun) | ||
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Two years on and 315000 Japanese tsunami victims languish in dreary camps 2013-03-07 Waves battered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 220 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, where one by one reactors exploded and went into meltdown, as the then Prime Minister Naoto Kan fiddled and experts around the PM procrastinated. As the meltdown ... (Hong Kong Standard) | ||
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Former head of Japan's nuclear safety body questioned over alleged negligence ... 2013-02-04 Mr Madarame, who was appointed head of the nuclear watchdog in 2010, accompanied the then prime minister Naoto Kan on a helicopter trip surveying the damage of the plant from the air several days after the disaster. The former chairman later issued an ... (Telegraph.co.uk)
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