
National Sep 15, 2013
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan urges Taiwan to close all its reactors and explains how his experience with the Fukushima crisis changed his views on atomic energy.
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan urges Taiwan to close all its reactors and explains how his experience with the Fukushima crisis changed his views on atomic energy.
Prosecutors decide not to indict former Prime Minister Naoto Kan or any officials from Tokyo Electric over the Fukushima disaster, but an inquest panel looms.
Naoto Kan took his first steps in the world of politics around 40 years ago as a pugnacious citizen-activist, admonishing those with power as only those without it can. He likes to say he's the same man now, but of course there's an irony ...
Kan says he shouldn't be held criminally liable for Fukushima disaster
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who led the government's response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011, says he shouldn't be held criminally liable for the crisis.
DPJ lawmakers OK Hosono's exit, move to suspend Kan
Disarray in the Democratic Party of Japan continued Friday as members approved the immediate resignation of Secretary-General Goshi Hosono, in an about-face to their president's earlier decision to keep him in the post until the end of August. The largest opposition group was also set ...
DPJ in disarray, faults Kan for poll disaster
As bad as the drubbing was in Sunday's Upper House election, the Democratic Party of Japan faces an even bigger, not to say familiar, problem — disharmony and lack of governance.
Kan sues Abe for 3/11 defamation
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan sues Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for defamation, saying he has no grounds to accuse him of mismanaging the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Kan hits Abe's nuclear salesmanship
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls Prime Minister Shinzo Abe "inhumane" and an aggressive "salesman for Japan's nuclear village" for peddling Japan's nuclear technology overseas.
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan tells residents and activists near an ailing nuclear plant in California how the Fukushima crisis altered his views on atomic power.
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan said in a videotaped message shown Monday at a symposium in New York that the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was "one step away from the worst situation" and that catastrophe was avoided with "God's ...
The year in quotes: 25 windows on the way things were in 2012
It was a year dominated by Japan's spats with its most powerful neighbors, China and South Korea, over tiny specks in the sea, and by national soul-searching over nuclear power and the calamity that struck Japan in March 2011. It ended with the stunning ...