Naoto Kan

Naoto Kan

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 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 year, with his predecessors Yukio Hatoyama, Tarō Asō, Yasuo Fukuda, and Shinzo Abe either resigning prematurely or losing an election. On 26 August 2011, Kan announced his resignation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naoto Kan has received more than 710,466 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Naoto Kan is the 3,521st most popular politician (up from 3,615th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Japan (up from 189th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Japanese Politician.

Naoto Kan was the Prime Minister of Japan during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. He was most famous for his response to the disaster and his efforts to rebuild the country.