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	Print Article: The mane contender
		Naoto Kan, the Don Quixote of Japanese politics, is standing on top of a campaign bus, giving it his best shot.
		Kan has come to a seat in the north of Tokyo to support his local candidate, who is adding to the scene with the kind of two-handed wave that suggests little motors are attached to his wrists.
		Kan thinks differently and, indeed, during the campaign has talked about pulling the US Marines out of Okinawa in the south of Japan, and even withdrawing the 45,000 US troops stationed in the Japanese archipelago.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/11/07/1068013385673.html (1292 words)

	Naoto Kan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture as the son of bussinessman, Kan graduated in 1970 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and opened a patent office in 1974.
		During the campaign of the election of 2003, the DPJ called the election as the choice of the government between the ruling LDP-bloc and the DPJ and Kan was presented as the alternative candidate to then Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro.
		However, in 2004, Kan was accused of unpaid-annuity and forced to resign the position of leader.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naoto_Kan (385 words)

	kan naoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Naoto Kan is the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the largest opposition party in the Diet.
		Born in 1946 in Yamaguchi Prefecture as the son of bussinessman, Kan graduated in 1970 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and opened a patent office in 1974.
		During the campagin of the election of 2003, the DPJ called the election as the choice of the government between the ruling LDP-bloc and the DPJ and Kan was presented as the alternative candidate to then Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Kan_Naoto.html (314 words)

	Opposition's Kan hopes grass-roots image will lure voters
		Kan also differs in that respect from the man he succeeded as DPJ president in December 2002, Yukio Hatoyama, the scion of a wealthy political dynasty often referred to as the Japanese Kennedys.
		Kan was first elected to the legislative lower house in 1980 as a candidate from now defunct United Social Democratic Party (USDP), after losing three elections in which he stood as an independent candidate, a member of the dissolved United Social Citizen's Party and a USDP candidate.
		Kan was born in 1946 in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan as the second child and only son of a local businessman.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bt/Qjapan-vote-kan.ROhE_DN8.html (584 words)

	kan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inside his political headquarters, complete with youthful new graphics, Kan is content to let the old dinosaurs of the LDP struggle over the remains of their empire.
		The LDP must face decisive elections for the lower house by 2000 and Kan is confident of winning power in a centre-left coalition, which is why he wants to push for early polls.
		Kan could be prime minister of the world's second-largest economy and its 120m people in under two years.
	link.lanic.utexas.edu /~bennett/__338/jp_kan.htm (1005 words)

	Minister symbol of power to be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kan has zoomed to the top of the political popularity charts and founded a party expected to fare well in Oct. 20 elections.
		Kan lives up to his straight-shooter reputation when asked his chances of becoming prime minister should the election lead to a coalition government of his Democratic Party and one of Japan's two main conservative parties.
		Kan says he doesn't want to repeat the tactical error of Morihiro Hosokawa, a reformer who served as prime minister for eight months in 1993-94 but was forced to quit because he lacked a solid power base.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/10/12/japan.html (534 words)

	AEGiS-AFP News: Japan-vote-Kan: Opposition's Kan hopes grass-roots image will lure voters - November 5, 2003
		Kan also differs in that respect from the man he succeeded as DPJ president in December 2002, Yukio Hatoyama, the scion of a wealthy political dynasty often referred to as the Japanese Kennedys.
		Kan was first elected to the legislative lower house in 1980 as a candidate from now defunct United Social Democratic Party (USDP), after losing three elections in which he stood as an independent candidate, a member of the dissolved United Social Citizen's Party and a USDP candidate.
		Kan was born in 1946 in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan as the second child and only son of a local businessman.
	www.aegis.com /news/afp/2003/AF031115.html (775 words)

	kan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inside his political headquarters, complete with youthful new graphics, Kan is content to let the old dinosaurs of the LDP struggle over the remains of their empire.
		The LDP must face decisive elections for the lower house by 2000 and Kan is confident of winning power in a centre-left coalition, which is why he wants to push for early polls.
		Kan could be prime minister of the world's second-largest economy and its 120m people in under two years.
	menic.utexas.edu /~bennett/__338/jp_kan.htm (1005 words)

	Democratic Party of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On October 22, 2003, in a speech delivered jointly by former Party President Naoto Kan and former Liberal Party President Ichiro Ozawa in Okayama, Kan stated: "The LDP should give up the reins of power to the DPJ for once, creating a two-party system that will enable changes of government to take place."
		Following a pension scandal, Naoto Kan resigned, and was replaced with a moderate liberal—Katsuya Okada.
		Kan Group: led by former Party President Naoto Kan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Japan (820 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		Kan mocked the platform of Koizumi's own LDP party, which in September had elected him overwhelmingly to a three-year term as party president.
		In another loaded jab, the DPJ's Kan received applause for his party's promise to eliminate the steep highway tolls (outside big cities) that the government charges that are now the center of fierce political controversy.
		Kan is also pushing the use of the national consumption tax (now 5 percent) to fund Japan's overburdened public pension schemes, even if it has to be raised to do so.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/EK01Dh04.html (1312 words)

	Corporate Note: Invitational Luncheon with the Honorable Naoto Kan, Secretary General, Democratic Party of Japan - ...
		Naoto Kan predicted that his party has a greater than 50 percent chance of overtaking the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) within the next two years.
		Kan said he would make the government more accountable to the general welfare by eliciting private sector input and assigning vice-ministers and support staff to help the MPs formulate policy and draft laws.
		Kan's view, the U.S. military presence under the Japan-U.S. security treaty is for the purpose of providing peace and stability to the Pacific hemisphere.
	www.japansociety.org /corporate/event_corp_note.cfm?id_note=1147943321 (628 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| WORLD > Japan opposition leader dragged into scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Naoto Kan, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), told a television talk show Sunday he recognized it was his duty to explain his own 10-month lapse in state pension payments.
		Kan has also come under fire for appearing to compromise with the government on a proposal to hike pension premiums annually starting in 2005 to deal with a growing number of retirees and a workforce expected to shrink.
		Kan told the program he mistakenly entered a pension program for public servants when he became the health and welfare minister in 1996, but did not realize his mistake until recently.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/may/10/yehey/world/20040510wor3.html (965 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Interview with Naoto Kan
		Kan: We thought that a merger was an effective way of realizing a change in administration in the next election.
		Kan: Because almost all of the ldp's policies have been decided by bureaucrats, the ldp has no policies of its own per se.
		Kan: He will look to me to be the representative of the party and to take leadership.
	www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501030922/interview.html (622 words)

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		Kan’s consideration seemed unnecessary because the party would not have to compromise its policy stance for the sake of the coherence in government policies until the party actually took power.
		The illegal condition that Kan was concerned would not arise because the law would have taken effect immediately after the expected passage and the DPJ would have to abide by the law should it take power.
		Kan served as secretary-general of the election campaign for Fusae Ichikawa, a legendary female politician and civil movement leader in 1974.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/itoh/itoh2.htm (6281 words)

	Print Article: Koizumi's good timing set to pay off at polls
		It is lunchtime outside Oji railway station, and about 500 people are risking damage to their hearing to support the Mr Kan, 57, who is clutching two microphones as he tries to win votes with the suggestion that "if the water in the goldfish bowl has become dirty and polluted, it should be changed".
		The first achievement of Mr Kan and his party was a merger with the smaller Liberal Party, which gave it an extra 22 seats in the lower house.
		Mr Kan thinks differently, and during the campaign has talked about pulling the US marines out of Okinawa, in the country's south, and even withdrawing the 45,000 US troops stationed in the Japanese archipelago.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/11/07/1068013394021.html (895 words)

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		Kan has shaken up Japanese politics and is greatly admired as an individual, he is also untested as a national leader.
		Kan's proposals, a rare case in which the political opposition in Japan actually contributed anything to the decision-making process.
		Kan suddenly appeared on the scene two years ago as a gust of fresh air, serving as Health Minister and uncovering a scandal in his own ministry.
	link.lanic.utexas.edu /~bennett/__338/jp_kan'2.htm (786 words)

	Nobody can in Japan if Kan can't.(politician Naoto Kan)
		Opposition leader Naoto Kan may be just the injection needed to kickstart reforms.
		Hope may be emerging in the form of Opposition leader Naoto Kan, a charismatic 51-year-old who leads Minshuto (the Democrat Party of Japan).
		Kan is reportedly prepared to let banks fail, and remove power for regulatory policymaking from the Ministry of Finance.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-55143490.html (936 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kan has shaken up Japanese politics and is greatly admired as an individual, he is also untested as a national leader.
		Kan's proposals, a rare case in which the political opposition in Japan actually contributed anything to the decision-making process.
		Kan suddenly appeared on the scene two years ago as a gust of fresh air, serving as Health Minister and uncovering a scandal in his own ministry.
	menic.utexas.edu /~bennett/__338/jp_kan'2.htm (786 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Profile: Naoto Kan
		Naoto Kan, who has resigned as leader of Japan's main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), presented himself as a champion of the people.
		Internal divisions within Mr Kan's party, and a sex scandal in 1998, in which he was linked with a television newscaster, chipped away at his support base.
		Mr Kan was born in 1946 in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan - the second child and only son of a local businessman.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3249613.stm (438 words)

	JAPANOPP.htm in Business Recorder on February 09, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kan, who heads the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, was emboldened to throw down the gauntlet to Hashimoto by a recent nationwide poll that showed voters preferred him to the prime minister.
		Kan sprang to national prominence when, as minister of health and welfare, he blew the whistle on a cover-up of AIDS-tainted blood imports by ministry officials.
		Kan's attack on Hashimoto's Okinawa policy came as the island prefecture awaited the results of a mayoral election in the town of Nago seen as a referendum on construction of a U.S. offshore heliport nearby.
	www.paksearch.com /br98/Feb/9/JAPANOPP.htm (439 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		TOKYO - Japan's shadow prime minister, Naoto Kan, chose his only option and resigned this week as leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) to make amends for not paying his obligatory national pension premiums several years ago while serving in the cabinet.
		Kan achieved his major gains for the DPJ last November when the party flashed a lot of "new faces" and a popular "manifesto" of such policies as abolishing non-urban highway tolls.
		While Kan was looking not too vexed over his demise, after announcing his decision to resign, members of the press asked the prime minister what he thought.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FE12Dh03.html (1437 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Japan Opposition Party Elects New Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The photogenic Kan entered politics in the 1970s as a consumer activist and soared to prominence in 1996 when he exposed a cover-up of an HIV-tainted blood scandal as health minister in a coalition Cabinet.
		But Kan regained the post and led the party in a stunning showing in 2003 elections that boosted the Democrats' ranks to 177 seats from 137 and fed nationwide talk that the party could emerge a viable challenger to the LDP and create a legitimate two-party system.
		Kan resigned again last year, however, after admitting he had missed payments into the national pension system for 10 months in the 1990s when he was health and welfare minister.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/sep/17/091700763.html (555 words)

	Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Naoto Kan proposed a framework of regional cooperation in Asia in the 21 century.
		Kan responded that he would like to visit the site of forestation work in the western part of the country.
		Besides Naoto Kan, Eisei Ito, DPJ Vice-President and Next Minister of Foreign Affairs, Satoshi Arai, Head of the Office of President, Marutei Tsurunen, Head of the International Bureau, and Masayuki Naoshima, Secretary General DPJ caucus in the House of Councillors took part in the delegation.
	www.dpj.or.jp /english/news/030421/01.html (533 words)

	Taipei Times - archives
		Japan's opposition Democratic Party co-founder Naoto Kan, right, shakes hands with a supporter before announcing his decision to resign from his position yesterday at the entrance of the Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo.
		Calls for Democratic Party chief Naoto Kan to step down from the top post had mounted since he admitted late last month that he -- like seven members of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet -- had skipped payments into the state pension scheme.
		Kan, who had harshly criticized Koizumi cabinet members for failing to make pension payments, came under fire within his own party after admitting he had been similarly remiss for 10 months when he was health minister in 1996.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2004/05/11/2003155001/print (532 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Kan
		Naoto Kan, leader of opposition Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan), called Tuesday for a new constitution written by Japanese to put the nation's supreme...
		Opposition leader Naoto Kan is to propose establishing a special military organization separate from the Self-Defense Forces to take part in United Nations...
		Naoto Kan, president of the nation's largest opposition force, made no specific references to changing Article 9 of the Constitution, which prohibits Japan...
	nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/K/Kan.shtml (2120 words)

	Daily Summary of Japanese Press
		Kan might not be able to have enough sponsors.
		Kan is not convinced with the idea of making amendments to the Constitution in the near future.
		Kan's idea is to make active use of fiscal disbursements to boost the economy even if such would run counter to certain fiscal rules.
	sunset.usc.edu /classes/cs577a_99/projects/detailsProject5.html (4236 words)

	GLOCOM Platform - Media Reviews - Weekly Review
		56-year old Naoto Kan grabbed headlines during his stint as minister of health and welfare (MHW) in 1996 when he insisted on a thorough investigation of the HIV contaminated blood product disaster which infected 40% of the Japanese hemophiliac population (1,800 in total), killing 400 of them by 1997.
		Kan demonstrated his ability to enact change by leading the movement towards a full disclosure against the will of many MHW and LDP officials and offered the first public apology to victims on behalf of the ministry.
		This is the question many media sources are asking when analyzing the likelihood of Kan and Ozawa succeeding in their mission to change the government and establish a stable two party system.
	www.glocom.org /media_reviews/w_review/20030825_weekly_review107 (1256 words)

	JPRI Working Paper No. 49
		The DPJ was created by Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, along with 48 other members of the Japanese Diet, in September 1996, on the eve of the general election for the House of Representatives.
		A surprising and strong source for convergence was Naoto Kan. Kan was a hero of the citizens' movements in Japan.
		It is paradoxical that Kan became a force for convergence, despite his leftist background, whereas Hatoyama became a force for divergence despite his LDP background.
	www.jpri.org /publications/workingpapers/wp49.html (4979 words)

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