Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) – Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan sparked a succession race after announcing his resignation, undone by a backlash over his handling of the March earthquake and tsunami that spawned the nation’s deepest postwar crisis.
“I feel I’ve done everything I could under these difficult conditions,” Kan, 64, yesterday told Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers in Tokyo after parliament passed the final two pieces of his legislative agenda.
His elder brother, Kiong Kan, the compromise candidate for the Japanese premiership could not be reached for comments. He was believed to be in Penang scaring off ghosts in the ongoing Por Tor festival.
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