Tokyo - Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Tuesday that renewable energy would be a key pillar of Japan's energy policy after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years and that its nuclear policy ...

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

History Repeats? This isn’t the first time Japan has sounded alarm bells. Back in 2010, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned ...

Japan, once hailed as a model of fiscal discipline and economic stability in the post-war era, is now facing one of its most troubling financial challenges in decades. The warning sounded by Prime ...

New Zealand has been asked - and agreed - to dispatch an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team to help Japan following the massive earthquake and tsunami. Forty eight rescue members will leave New ...

During the administration of Prime Minister Naoto Kan of the Democratic Party of Japan, an incident occurred where a Chinese fishing boat rammed a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel near the Senkaku ...

The No. 18 district has traditionally been a liberal stronghold of Naoto Kan, a former prime minister and senior member of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. The LDP has ...

“We see a light for getting out of the crisis,” an official quoted Prime Minister Naoto Kan as saying, allowing himself some rare optimism in Japan's toughest moment since World War ...

Japan's Finance Minister Naoto Kan (R) and ruling party lawmaker Shinji Tarutoko react after Kan's victory in the Democratic Party of Japan party election in Tokyo June 4, 2010. [Agencies] ...

Japan's Finance Minister Naoto Kan (L) speaks with outgoing Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in the lower house of parliament before being voted in as prime minister in Tokyo June 4, 2010. [Agencies] ...