Comments Bookmark Tokyo - Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday refused to step down in the face of a no-confidence motion in parliament this week, saying he wanted first to resolve ...

The remark echoed that of an ill-fated predecessor: In 2010, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan evoked the specter of a Greek-style debt crisis in comments that shocked the nation in his call for ...

Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan defeated two candidates including a former subordinate in the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) to secure a seat in the Oct. 31 House of Representatives ...

– Naoto Kan 18. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington 19. “Giving up is the most painful way of solving a problem.” – Anonymous 20.

Naoto Kan, the Prime Minister of Japan from 2010 to 2011, including during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, will speak at Cornell in the Statler Auditorium on March 28.

A protester holds a fan during an anti-nuclear demonstration rally in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on March 11, 2016. Hundreds of demonstratior staged the anti-nuclear rally on the fifth ...

Former Soviet Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the then USSR during the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion in Ukraine; and Naoto Kan who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 ...

Although the first reactor in Japan to be fired up in two years went online last month, former Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Wednesday that Japan needs to seek a nuclear-free path.

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 ...

Kan’s nightmare began at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, when massive plates 20 miles below the Pacific succumbed to centuries of pent up stress and ground past one another.