The Independent
Naoto Kan, the former Prime Minister, has admitted that his office was "overwhelmed" during the Fukushima nuclear meltdown last year, and he recommended that Japan scrap all its reactors to avoid a repeat. He told a parliamentary committee yesterday...
Channel NewsAsia
The head of Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company on Monday urged the prime minister to quickly decide on restarting two nuclear reactors at its Oi plant to avoid summer power shortages. "The final decision rests with the government or the...
Japan Times
Staff writer Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan admitted Monday that the triple whammy that doomed the Fukushima No. March 2011 the megaquake, tsunami and the meltdowns they unleashed was beyond the scope of the national crisis-management system. "The...
Epoch Times
May 28, 2012 Former Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan speaks in Tokyo on May 28, at a parliamentary commission investigating the Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/GettyImages) Naoto Kan, Japan's former prime minister who was in power...
Sydney Morning Herald
Naoto Kan resigned as prime minister in September after being criticised for government failures during the disaster. He told the parliamentary panel on Monday he felt afraid when nuclear officials kept failing to explain conditions at the Fukushima...
News 24
The grip of the nuclear lobby in Japan before the Fukushima disaster was akin to that of the military in the run up to World War II, the prime minister at the time of last year's catastrophe said on Monday. At a parliamentary inquiry into the world's...