Naoto Kan
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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.
Masao Yoshida was a nuclear engineer who served as plant manager of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant during the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Naoto Kan
…cooling purposes, Kan expressed concern that the seawater injection plan may lead to re-criticality, in response to which TEPCO directed plant manager Masao Yoshida to stop pumping (an order which Yoshida tacitly ignored). After further briefings on the issue, Kan directed pumping to continue later that evening…
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Yoshida (right, in white vest) meets with Prime Minister Kan (center left) on 12 March 2011, the morning after a tsunami struck the Fukushima plant.