Naoto Kan (菅 直人, Kan Naoto, born 10 October 1946) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party...

officials were elected as well at the party convention for the first time; Naoto Kan, former Health and Welfare Minister was appointed as the president of...

(lower house) in the Diet (national legislature). He was named to succeed Naoto Kan as a result of a runoff vote against Banri Kaieda in his party, and was...

the LDP to form the New Party Sakigake with Naoto Kan, Masayoshi Takemura and Shūsei Tanaka (田中秀征). He and Kan then left to join the newly formed Democratic...

Nobuko Kan (菅 伸子, Kan Nobuko, born October 3, 1945) is a Japanese essayist and wife of Naoto Kan, who was the Prime Minister of Japan from June 2010 –...

the Policy Research Group inside the NPS under Policy Research Chairman Naoto Kan. In January 1996, around two years later, the First Hashimoto Cabinet...

intraparty ally of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, is believed to have been given the role of secretary general in order to secure Kan's influence in the governing...

of Japan formed in 1998. Its two leading members, Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, subsequently and sequentially became Prime Ministers at the end of the...

singer-songwriter Naoto Itō (伊藤 直人, born 1969), Japanese ski jumper Naoto Kan (直人, born 1946), Japanese politician - former Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kataoka...

declared by the government of Japan on 11 March. Later Prime Minister Naoto Kan issued instructions that people within a 20 km (12 mi) zone around the...