When was naoto kan born

His Excellency. Nobuko Kan m. The Washington Post. ISSN Retrieved 11 April The Guardian. London : GMG. OCLC Credit: see original file. Naoto Kan. Suggest as cover photo Would you like to suggest this photo as the cover photo for this article? Yes, this would make a good choice No, never mind. Thank you for helping! Thanks for reporting this video! His face was used as the trademark of the campaign against the LDP. However, in Kan was accused of unpaid annuities and again resigned the position of leader.

On 10 May , he officially announced his resignation and made the Shikoku Pilgrimage. Later, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare spokesman apologized, saying the unpaid record was due to an administrative error. In mid-October , Kan, who turned 60 in , proposed the creation of a new political party to be called the "Dankai baby boomer Party". The initial intent of the party was to offer places of activity for the Japanese baby boomers — 2.

He believes the Japan Self-Defense Forces should play a more prominent role on the international stage. On 6 January , he was picked by Yukio Hatoyama to be the new finance minister, assuming the post in addition to deputy prime minister. He replaced Hirohisa Fujii as finance minister. Hatoyama appeared to rebuke Kan. The government basically shouldn't comment on foreign exchange," he told reporters.

The Cabinet resigned en masse on 4 June. Kan, at his age of 63, won the leadership of the DPJ with votes to , defeating a relatively unknown Ozawa-backed legislator Shinji Tarutoko, 50, who was leading the environmental policy committee in the lower house of the Diet. The botched sales tax increase proposal was partially blamed for the DPJ's disappointing results in the July House of Councillors election, where the DPJ lost its majority and were forced to work with smaller, unaffiliated parties such as Your Party, the JCP, and the SDP in order to secure passage of bills in the House of Councillors.

Although it was initially believed that Ozawa had a slight edge among DPJ members of parliament, in the final vote Kan garnered the support of DPJ lawmakers to Ozawa's Local rank-and-file party members and activists overwhelmingly supported Kan, and according to opinion polls the wider Japanese public preferred Kan to Ozawa by as much as a 4—1 ratio.

After the leadership challenge, Kan reshuffled his cabinet, which left many prominent members of the pro-Ozawa faction of the DPJ without important posts in the new cabinet. The cabinet reshuffle also resulted in the promotion of long-time Kan ally Yoshito Sengoku to Chief Cabinet Secretary. China protested the arrest, as it claims the islands as part of its sovereign territory, and demanded the unconditional release of the captain.

The captain was released on 24 September, after China had cut off all ministerial-level contacts with Japan and threatened further action. The incident brought Sino-Japanese relations to its lowest point since the Koizumi administration. The Kan government intervened in mid-September to weaken the surging yen by buying U. The move proved popular with stock brokers, Japanese exporters, and the Japanese public.

It was the first such move by a Japanese government since Five years later, he became deputy prime minister when Yukio Hatoyama swept to power amid widespread popular discontent with the LDP government.

He was also appointed to head the National Strategy Bureau, a new body charged with wresting control of policy-making from the powerful bureaucracy. But he took over the finance portfolio four months later after Hirohisa Fujii stepped down due to ill health. Announcing his candidacy to replace Yukio Hatoyama in June , he emphasised his ordinary roots. I've had no special connections," he said. Popular because of his unorthodox route to the top, he was known as a keen debater.

His nickname is "Ira-Kan" - ira being short for irritable - because of his reportedly quick temper. With just three months under his belt as prime minister, Mr Kan survived a leadership challenge by DPJ veteran powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa.

Mr Kan also received a stinging rebuke by the electorate last July, when the DPJ lost their majority in the upper house of parliament over proposed tax reforms. Married with two sons, he enjoys playing Go, a complicated chess-like board game. Japan's revolving door. Japan PM survives no-confidence vote.