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Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Nov. 5 officially announced he will retire from politics and praised himself for his long career that has received mixed reviews from critics. Kan, a 77-year-old ...

PM Naoto Kan made a hair-raising analysis of the Japanese economy Japan is at “risk of collapse” under its huge debt mountain, the country's new prime minister has said. Naoto Kan, in his ...

Close to 5,000 are still lost in the rubble or the sea. After the destruction triggered a radioactive leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Naoto Kan immediately declared a ...

Japan s Prime Minister Naoto Kan is expected to announce tomorrow, at the G8 rich nations meeting in France, a 15-fold increase in the country's use of solar power by 2030, reports Reuters.

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