Naoto Kan is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan from June 2010 to September 2011.
Official portrait, 2010
Kan with U.S. president Barack Obama at the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit on 27 June 2010
Prime Minister Kan giving the government's speech in front of the assembled lawmakers, in the presence of the Emperor Akihito and the Empress Michiko seated in the Chamber of the House of Councillors of the National Diet (29 November 2010)
Kan giving a press conference on the day of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
The Democratic Party of Japan was a centrist to centre-left, liberal or social-liberal political party in Japan from 1998 to 2014. It was the main opposition to the Liberal Democratic Party from 1998
Naoto Kan
…Naoto Kan (菅 直人, Kan Naoto; born 10 October 1946) is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from June 2010 to September 2011. Kan was the first Prime Minister since the resignation of Junichiro Koizumi in 2006 to serve for more than one…
Headquarters of the Democratic Party of Japan