Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Nov ... mixed reviews from critics. Kan, a 77-year-old member of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said he will not run in the ...

Naoto Kan, who as prime minister ... main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. CDP leader Kenta Izumi said he was aware of Kan’s wish to retire from the Diet.

Tokyo, Japan (CNN)-- It was not a quiet weekend for ... with an international television network -- Prime Minister Naoto Kan answered wide-ranging questions from pressing economic issues leading ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on ... Japan on 'maximum alert' over nuclear crisis: Japan PM Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan today said his government is in a "state of maximum alert ...

As the scale of the damage emerges, how the Japanese government responds will determine more than the fate of hundreds of thousands of people in the areas affected. It will also shape the country's ...

Japan s Prime Minister Naoto Kan is expected to announce tomorrow ... Japan s richest man Masayoshi Son, the CEO and president of Japanese telecom company Softbank today announced plans to ...

The unprecedented catastrophe in Japan's Tohoku region brought on by the magnitude ... For now, it seems to have given the government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, whose support rates were falling to ...