“pass a bill to promote renewable energy and questioned whether private companies should be running atomic plants”
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Naoto Kan
Naoto Kan 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.
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politics · Prime Minister of Japan from 2010 to 2011 · politician · university teacher · theoretical physicist · also Naoto Kan, Kan Naoto, Kan
Born 10 October 1946 · Q47846
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2030· 1 entry
2026· 1 entry
“After Fukushima, my whole mindset about nuclear power has changed 180 degrees... I began to think there is only one way to deal with this risk.... I realized, we need a society that has no nuclear power.”
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2024· 2 entries
Published video “20241020菅伸子2”.
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Published video “20241020菅伸子1”.
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2023· 2 entries
The Asahi Shimbun: Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it a day as a politician
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Kan stated publicly he would not run for a seat in the House of Representatives again
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2022· 2 entries
Published video “維新政治を考える2022/04/25”.
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Published video “菅直人事務所 のライブ配信”.
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2021· 2 entries
Published video “北澤元防衛相、菅直人対談（21年9月17日）”.
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Career landmark: member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2021).
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2020· 5 entries
Published video “市民ふらっと集会（17年11月14日）”.
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Published video “市民ふらっと集会（17年11月11日）”.
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Published video “新しい市民型政党のモデル（17年10月23日）”.
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Published video “最後の街頭演説（17年10月21日）”.
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Published video “国民のための政治を取り戻す（17年10月19日）”.
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2017· 3 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,187 times.
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Published “Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,628 times.
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Career landmark: member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017–2021).
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,711 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,092 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 5,008 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2014–2017).
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2013· 1 entry
To San Diego to participate in a panel entitled "Fukushima: Ongoing Lessons for California" [1] next to Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair Gregory Jaczko, former NRC Commissioner Peter A
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2012· 4 entries
“Japan needs to dramatically reduce its dependence on nuclear power, which supplied 30 percent of its electricity before the crisis, and has turned him into a believer of renewable energy.”
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After resigning as prime minister, Kan said the Fukushima accident made it clear to him that "Japan needs to dramatically reduce its dependence on nuclear power, which supplied 30 percent of its electricity before the cr
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That the nuclear industry had "shown no remorse" for the disaster, and was trying to push Japan back to nuclear power
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,270 times.
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2010· 3 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Finance (2010–2010).
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Was reported to have announced his intention to run to succeed Kan
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Japan (2010–2011).
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2009· 1 entry
Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (2009–2010).
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2006· 2 entries
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
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Proposed the creation of a new political party to be called the "Dankai (baby boomer) Party"
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2004· 1 entry
Kan was accused of unpaid annuities and again resigned the position of leader
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1998· 1 entry
His image was affected by allegations of an affair, vigorously denied by both parties, with a television newscaster and media consultant, Yūko Tonomoto
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1996· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Health and Welfare of Japan (1996–1996).
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1980· 1 entry
As a member of the Socialist Democratic Federation
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1973· 1 entry
Kan built a machine to calculate the complicated mahjong point system and applied for a patent in 1973.
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1970· 1 entry
From the Tokyo Institute of Technology and became a licensed benrishi (patent agent/attorney) in 1971
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-10-10.
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