Naoto Kan News from United Press International.The pace of decline in prices is slowing somewhat, but prices are still falling Japan's February CPI down 1.2 percent Mar 26, 2010 Under the basic ...

TOKYO, June 8 (Reuters) - New Japanese leader Naoto Kan said on Tuesday that restoring tattered public finances was the biggest issue facing the government and that a weak yen was generally ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday that he is ready to resign his post if the country's parliament passes a second supplemental budget before the end of ...

TOKYO Naoto Kan, a plain-spoken finance minister with activist roots, was elected prime minister on Friday, making him the fifth Japanese leader in four years. Mr. Kan, 63, won a vote in the lower ...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan signaled on Thursday he may step down at some point in the future, telling lawmakers he was ready to hand over power after overseeing ...

Many people think Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan should resign. He has bungled everything. He is an international fool. The only slightly logical reason I can think of for him not to resign is ...

Naoto Kan: The man who says he saved the world Japan's former PM was derided for his handling of the Fukushima disaster. Now opinion is shifting. For the first time, he tells his side of the story ...

Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced Friday he was resigning after almost 15 months in office amid plunging approval ratings over his government's handling of the tsunami disaster and nuclear crisis.

With the election of Naoto Kan, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has achieved a miracle. Following the resignations of embattled Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and scandal-tainted ...

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no-confidence vote after a surprising announcement in which indicated he would resign once the bulk of quake recovery work was done. But the political ...

Naoto Kan, the incoming Japanese prime minister, is a man of many parts. As well as being in charge of the world's second-biggest economy, he'salso a mahjong enthusiast and a part-time inventor.

TOKYO (Reuters) - New Japanese leader Naoto Kan said on Tuesday that public finances had worsened because the government could not raise taxes. Following are key quotes from Kan at a news ...