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

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 ...

History Repeats? This isn’t the first time Japan has sounded alarm bells. Back in 2010, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned that Japan’s finances could spiral into a crisis worse than Greece’s.

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 ...

In June 2011, the then prime minister Naoto Kan announced that Japan was phasing out nuclear power in the long run only to backtrack a few days later. Current Prime Minster Shinzo Abe announced a ...

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; ...

Naoto Kan was the country’s premier during the disaster at Fukushima in 2011 which was caused by a tsunami that hit Japan’s Pacific coast. But he has since become a staunch anti-nuclear ...

Ex-leader of Japan, Naoto Kan, is on Anglesey to meet the farmer refusing to sell his land to Wylfa. There are plans to build an £8 billion nuclear plant on the island. Protestors against the ...

Gregory Jaczko and former Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan spoke in San Diego at a seminar called “Lessons from Fukushima." Groups worried about plans to restart the San Onofre nuclear power ...

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 ...