PM signals he will step down once disaster reconstruction efforts take hold. June 2, 2011— -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan signaled Thursday that he would step down once disaster ...

Kan was Japan’s prime minister ... A scout helicopter went ahead and indicated that it was too high, so they couldn’t do it on the 16th. But the next day, the defense minister called and ...

Reporting from Tokyo and Los Angeles — After declaring he would convene a national council on rebuilding within 10 days, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited the devastated city of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan was re-elected president of the ruling Democratic Party on Tuesday, surviving a challenge from a veteran powerbroker and sparing Japan another leadership change ...

TOKYO Hoping for a second chance to fulfill a historic election mandate for change, Japan’s ... that the finance minister, Naoto Kan, 63, will become the nation’s next prime minister ...

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered everyone within 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) to evacuate. He told everyone within 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) to go inside. Japan's NHK television ...

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan will step down by August if not earlier due to growing calls from the opposition and within his own ruling party to resign as quickly as possible, Kyodo news ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he was overwhelmed and afraid during last year’s nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, acknowledging that little has been done since then ...

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. Kan’s lecture ...