In the next few weeks (or possibly days), Prime Minister Kan Naoto will announce his resignation.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered residents within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima plant to stay home.
The DPJ is led by Kan Naoto, whom opinion polls consistently show is Japan's most popular politician.
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered his ministers to step up information-gathering and be prepared for emergencies.
Naoto Kan, then prime minister, had a crisis headquarters on the fifth floor of the Kantei, his office building.
On Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan recommended freezing an already-approved plan to build 14 new nuclear reactors by 2030.
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan advised residents living within 30 km (18.6 miles) to stay indoors or risk radiation sickness.
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The format, says Naoto Mizoguchi, Mitsubishi's head of strategic planning, could eventually be applied to industries such as textiles and chemicals.
Naoto Kan's government has reaffirmed its support for the alliance with America.
For a start, Naoto Kan, the prime minister, has maintained relative calm despite the menacing situation at Fukushima Dai-ichi, the crippled nuclear plant.
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The intervention came just one day after Prime Minster Naoto Kan won an internal election for leadership of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.
The government of Prime Minister Kan Naoto is looking increasingly shaky.
And Japan's latest finance minister, Naoto Kan, has called for a weaker yen (although he received a rebuke from the prime minister for doing so).
Approval ratings for Noda's predecessor, Naoto Kan, tumbled following the disaster.
On Thursday Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited evacuees in Fukushima prefecture.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said today that plans to build new nuclear power plants should be scrapped and the nation should design a completely new energy future.
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Other major DPJ figures, including former prime minister Naoto Kan, lost in their single-seat districts but managed to stay in the Diet through a parallel proportional representation contest.
In challenging Naoto Kan, the prime minister, as leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), he threatens to bring down Japan's third government in 12 months.
While he was health minister last year, the populist Naoto Kan announced that the Health and Welfare Ministry was in the process of lifting the ban on oral contraceptives.
To fend off colleagues joining an opposition no-confidence vote, Japan's embattled prime minister, Naoto Kan, promised vaguely that he would step down after the crisis brought about by March's earthquake and tsunami had passed.
Naoto Kan, secretary-general of the opposition Democratic Party, proposes several traditional environmental schemes, such as promoting windmills and tightening rules on dioxin, a pollutant produced by some industrial processes which can cause birth defects.
Japanese media have became more critical of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's handling of the disaster, and have accused both the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co of failing to provide enough information on the incident.
Two decades of stimulative, low-interest-rate fiscal policy have made Japan the most indebted nation in the developed world, and as new Prime Minister Naoto Kan recently said, in his first address to Parliament, that situation is not sustainable.
Mr. Noda, who was finance minister at the time of the disaster, was promoted to the premiership in September after his predecessor, Naoto Kan, lost popular support amid criticism over the government's handling of disaster relief and the nuclear accident.
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Shortly after Naoto Kan, then the deputy prime minister and now also the finance minister, gave a noisy warning of deflation's threat late last year, the bank adopted a new lending facility to boost the money supply and bring down money-market rates.
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