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Ousting Kan Naoto: The Politics of Nuclear Crisis and Renewable Energy in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jeff Kingston
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On August 26, 2011, Prime Minister Kan Naoto resigned from office after a tempestuous fifteen months in power. Since May 2011 a virtual lynch mob egged on by the media bayed for his resignation. Kan's ouster became an obsession of the nation's powerbrokers. This article examines why, in the midst of an unprecedented cascade of disasters, natural and nuclear, the Kan problem trumped all others.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 39 , September 2011 , e6
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