Naoto Kan

Naoto Kan is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from June 2010 to September 2011. Kan was the first Prime Minister since the resignation of Junichiro Koizumi in 2006 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. On 26 August 2011, Kan announced his resignation. Yoshihiko Noda was elected as his successor. On 1 August 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Kan would be one of the members of the UN high-level panel on the post-2015 development agenda.

10 October 1946

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Born on the same birth day (10 October): Bob Burnquist • Charles Dance • Clare Hollingworth • Claude Simon • Gary Beach • Henry Cavendish • Jacobus Arminius • Jay Sebring • Jolanda de Rover • Julia Sweeney • Ken Saro-Wiwa • Paul Thiebaud • Ron Flockhart (ice hockey) • Shaun Fensom • Silke Kraushaar-Pielach • Taur Matan Ruak • Zhu Biao

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