Naoto Kan, who as prime minister grappled with a ... which triggered a triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. He was forced to step down in September that year following ...

Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Nov. 5 officially announced he ... his response as prime minister to the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant triggered by the Great ...

Following the March 2011 accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, everyone within a 20km area was ordered to evacuate. Matsumura Naoto alone stayed put. For 10 years, he has ...

Close to 5,000 are still lost in the rubble or the sea. After the destruction triggered a radioactive leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Naoto Kan immediately declared a ...

“Alone Again is Fukushima” is the long-awaited sequel to "Alone in Fukushima" (2015), which followed Naoto Matsumura, a man who remained in the nuclear zone in Fukushima to tend animal ...

Energy policy in post-Fukushima Japan has been particularly difficult for Kan and while his Prime Ministership may not stay the course, it appears that his renewable energy legislation will.

After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Matsumura Naoto stayed put in his hometown of Tomioka to look after abandoned animals. A decade later, Matsumura is now battling to revive a rice field in a ...