Naoto Kan

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Naoto Kan
菅 直人
Official portrait, 2007
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 8 June 2010 – 2 September 2011
Monarch	Akihito
Preceded by	Yukio Hatoyama
Succeeded by	Yoshihiko Noda
Minister of Finance
In office 6 January 2010 – 8 June 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama
Preceded by	Hirohisa Fujii
Succeeded by	Yoshihiko Noda
Deputy Prime Minister of Japan
In office 16 September 2009 – 8 June 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama
Preceded by	Wataru Kubo (1996)
Succeeded by	Katsuya Okada (2012)
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
In office 16 September 2009 – 8 June 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama
Preceded by	Yoshimasa Hayashi
Succeeded by	Satoshi Arai
Minister of State in charge of National Strategy
In office 16 September 2009 – 6 January 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Yoshito Sengoku
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
In office 16 September 2009 – 6 January 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama
Preceded by	Seiko Noda
Succeeded by	Tatsuo Kawabata
Minister of Health and Welfare
In office 11 January 1996 – 7 November 1996
Prime Minister	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Preceded by	Chūryō Morii
Succeeded by	Junichiro Koizumi
Member of the House of Representatives from Tokyo
In office 22 October 2017 – 9 October 2024
Preceded by	Masatada Tsuchiya
Constituency	18th district
In office 16 December 2012 – 22 October 2017
Preceded by	Hidehiro Mitani
Succeeded by	Shunsuke Ito
Constituency	Tokyo PR Block
In office 20 October 1996 – 16 December 2012
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Masatada Tsuchiya
Constituency	18th district
In office 17 July 1980 – 20 October 1996
Preceded by	Kiyoshi Ōno
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	7th district
Personal details
Born	(1946-10-10) 10 October 1946 (age 78) Ube, Yamaguchi, Empire of Japan
Political party	CDP
Other political affiliations	SDF (before 1993) NPS (1993–1996) DPJ(96) (1996–1998) DPJ(98) (1998–2016) DP (2016–2017)
Spouse	Nobuko Kan ​ (m. 1970)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Website	Official website

Naoto Kan (菅 直人, Kan Naoto, born 10 October 1946) is a Japanese former 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.^[1][2]

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.^[3]