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Truth-Out
March 9, 2018
Ironically, just a few days later, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, now an outspoken critic against nuclear energy, will be at the Flamanville European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) Unit 3 site in France to support anti-nuclear activists and their campaign to halt construction. A series of major financialÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 26, 2018
Known as burasagari, the spontaneous, standing interviews with reporters in the corridors of the Prime Minister's Office were introduced and deftly used by ex-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to get across his message effectively. But the practice came to a halt after Naoto Kan, one of Koizumi's successors,Ãâà...
Asahi Shimbun
February 6, 2018
Photo/Illutration Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, and former Prime Minister Naoto Kan at a Lower House Budget Committee session on Feb. 6 (Takeshi Iwashita). Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and predecessor Naoto Kan had a rare face-to-face showdown at a Lower House Budget Committee session overÃâà...
The Japan Times
October 6, 2017
The new political party formed as a refuge for the liberal wing of the disintegrating main opposition Democratic Party has unveiled a list of 62 candidates that includes former Prime Minister Naoto Kan for the upcoming Lower House election. Kan is among the first batch of candidates for the single-seatÃâà...
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
March 8, 2017
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, “The Truth about the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima and the Future of Renewable Energy,” will provide an insideÃâà...
Scientific American
October 16, 2013
Kan could not help but wondering how much worse the Fukushima meltdowns might get on the dark nights spent in his office after March 11, 2011. "What was going through my mind at the time?" Kan said through a translator during a public event at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York City on October 8.
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