Naoto Kan (菅 直人, Kan Naoto, born 10 October 1946) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party...

officials were elected as well at the party convention for the first time; Naoto Kan, former Health and Welfare Minister was appointed as the president of...

(lower house) in the Diet (national legislature). He was named to succeed Naoto Kan as a result of a runoff vote against Banri Kaieda in his party, and was...

the Policy Research Group inside the NPS under Policy Research Chairman Naoto Kan. In January 1996, around two years later, the First Hashimoto Cabinet...

Nobuko Kan (菅 伸子, Kan Nobuko, born October 3, 1945) is a Japanese essayist and wife of Naoto Kan, who was the Prime Minister of Japan from June 2010 –...

the LDP to form the New Party Sakigake with Naoto Kan, Masayoshi Takemura and Shūsei Tanaka (田中秀征). He and Kan then left to join the newly formed Democratic...

of Japan formed in 1998. Its two leading members, Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, subsequently and sequentially became Prime Ministers at the end of the...

declared by the government of Japan on 11 March. Later Prime Minister Naoto Kan issued instructions that people within a 20 km (12 mi) zone around the...

singer-songwriter Naoto Itō (伊藤 直人, born 1969), Japanese ski jumper Naoto Kan (直人, born 1946), Japanese politician - former Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kataoka...

intraparty ally of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, is believed to have been given the role of secretary general in order to secure Kan's influence in the governing...

under Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. In June 2010, then Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed her as Minister for Administrative Reforms. Upon taking the...

The Kan Cabinet was the cabinet governing Japan from June 2010 to September 2011 under the leadership of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who came into power...

with members of the imperial family, the cabinet, and Prime Minister Naoto Kan giving the government's speech in front of the assembled members of parliament...

disaster and the related reconstruction efforts." Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the situation "urgent" due to the ballooning debt. In order to...

Takenouchi Fumiyo Kohinata as the Prime Minister Shinji Azuma (based on Naoto Kan) Kaoru Kobayashi Takuma Oto'o Ken Mitsuishi Ken'ichi Endō Yuriko Ishida...

causing the reactor to exceed its maximum internal pressure. Prime Minister Naoto Kan travelled to Fukushima early the next morning to meet with Yoshida and...

represented by former Prime Minister and popular Democratic Party co-founder Naoto Kan. In the election of 2005 it was the only constituency the opposition could...

visual artist Kan Ze (闞澤; died 243), official of the state of Eastern Wu Kazunori Kan (菅 和範; born 1985), Japanese football midfielder Naoto Kan (菅 直人; born...

power. Previously a proponent of building more reactors, Prime Minister Naoto Kan took an increasingly anti-nuclear stance following the accident. In May...

proceedings necessary to override the House of Councillors rejection. In 2011, the Kan Cabinet struggled to pass a renewable energy bill and a bond ceiling increase...

Ochiai (Member of the House of Representatives for Tokyo 6th district) Naoto Kan (Member of the House of Representatives for Tokyo 18th district; Former...

financing scandals, particularly involving aides close to Ichirō Ozawa. Naoto Kan was chosen by the DPJ as the next prime minister, but he soon lost a working...

consequences for the workers. On 18 March, according to Prime Minister Naoto Kan the workers were "prepared for death". On 14 March, a complete withdrawal...

was addressed in a diet meeting in 2011 in which then-prime minister Naoto Kan urged the police to catch the true culprit. The parents of the five girls...

with members of the imperial family, the cabinet, and prime minister Naoto Kan giving the government's speech in front of the assembled members of parliament...

the Daijō-daijin (太政大臣, Chancellor of the Realm) was the head of the Daijō-kan (Department of State), the highest organ of Japan's pre-modern Imperial government...

September 2009 Prime Minister Taro Aso Preceded by Kaoru Yosano Succeeded by Naoto Kan Minister of Defense In office 2 August 2008 – 24 September 2008 Prime...

Minister of Foreign Affairs under the cabinets of Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, before resigning from the cabinet in March 2011 after he acknowledged...

not seen since 1987 as Japan's default risk surged after Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned of further leaks from the damaged nuclear power plant. Commodities...

to head the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry by Prime Minister Naoto Kan. The Fukushima disaster in March 2011 made evident numerous missteps within...