Tokyo - Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday refused to step down in the face of a no-confidence motion in parliament this week, saying he wanted first to resolve the world's worst ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Sweden for a two-day visit as he kicks off a trip that also will Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday said his government is in a "state of ...

Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for another change of government in the country during his retirement news conference on Tuesday. Kan, 77, a member of the main opposition Constitutional ...

Voters favor Prime Minister Naoto Kan over challenger Ichiro Ozawa in next month’s race to head the ruling Democratic Party of Japan by a margin of more than four to one, polls released on ...

Naoto Kan, center, receives a bouquet of flowers from a supporter in the Tokyo suburban city of Musashino on Nov. 1, 2021. (Mainichi/Yohei Koide) Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan defeated two ...

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 ...

Former leaders during nuclear meltdowns, now oppose nuclear power Former Soviet Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the then USSR during the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion in Ukraine; ...

Ex-leader of Japan, Naoto Kan, is on Anglesey to meet the farmer refusing to sell his land to Wylfa. There are plans to build an £8 billion nuclear plant on the island. Protestors against the ...

Former prime minister Naoto Kan today told a panel of Irish energy-industry heavy hitters that nuclear power should be consigned to the history books within a few generations. “I think ...

On March 10, 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan felt assured that nuclear power was safe and vital for Japan. By the evening of the next day, following the massive Tohoku earthquake, the ensuing ...

Naoto Kan speaks out Japan's prime minister at the time of the nation's worst postwar disaster tells Edan Corkill about his political principles, his mistakes and his ongoing anti-nuclear mission ...

Gregory Jaczko and former Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan spoke in San Diego at a seminar called “Lessons from Fukushima." Groups worried about plans to restart the San Onofre nuclear power ...