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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...