Taku Eto may forever be known as Japan’s modern-day Marie Antoinette.

Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for another change of government in the country during his retirement news conference on Tuesday. Kan, 77, a member of the main opposition Constitutional ...

Then came the tsunami and meltdown at Fukushima Dai-ichi. Naoto Kan, the left-leaning prime minister at the time, ordered the abrupt shutdown of the distant Hamaoka nuclear plant. Tens of ...

Japan is to have a new leader on Friday, members of the governing party said, with Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Naoto Kan most likely to be elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s successor.

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Former leaders during nuclear meltdowns, now oppose nuclear power Former Soviet Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the then USSR during the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion in Ukraine; ...

The man in charge of running the country at the time was Naoto Kan. The DPJ politician, who served as PM between June 2010 and September 2011, was confronted with the challenge of tackling the ...

Naoto Kan, the former Japanese prime minister who has become a vigorous campaigner against nuclear power, yesterday called on members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party who share his ...

Having led Japan through the 2011 nuclear crisis, the elder statesman is now campaigning for a world without nuclear power On March 10, 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan felt assured that nuclear ...

Regarding the Aug. 31 interview "Naoto Kan speaks out": I have mixed feelings. During the time that the Liberal Democratic Party was dominating the politics of Japan until it lost power in 2009 ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he was overwhelmed and afraid during last year’s nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, acknowledging that little has been done since then ...