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Imperial conferment of decorations

TOKYO, Japan, May 14 Kyodo - Recipients of Japanese grand cordons pose for photos following a ceremony of conferment at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 9, 2025. Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (9th from L) and former speaker of the House of Representatives Tadamori Oshima (10th from L) received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, while International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (2nd from L) was among the recipients of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. (Kyodo)

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) confers the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers to former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 9, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) heads to a ceremony to receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 9, 2025.

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Japan, China, S. Korea trilateral summit in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, May 9 Kyodo - (From L) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak smile at the end of a joint press conference following their talks at the State Guest House in Tokyo on May 22, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Ruka Nordic Opening 2023

Naoto Baba of Japan during men's cross-country skiing 10 km classic style competition at the FIS World Cup Ruka Nordic Opening event in Kuusamo, Finland, on November 25, 2023. LEHTIKUVA / HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Rugby: Japan's pre-World Cup training

TOULOUSE, France - The Japan National Team works out during a gym session ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup at the Brave Blossoms' base in Toulouse, France, on Sept. 5, 2023.

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Rugby World Cup: Japan vs. Argentina

Japan's Naoto Saito scores a try during the first half of a Rugby World Cup Pool D match against Argentina at Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, France, on Oct. 8, 2023.

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Rugby World Cup: Japan vs. Argentina

Japan's Naoto Saito scores a try during the first half of a Rugby World Cup Pool D match against Argentina at Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, France, on Oct. 8, 2023.

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Rugby World Cup: Japan vs. Argentina

Japan's Naoto Saito scores a try during the first half of a Rugby World Cup Pool D match against Argentina at Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, France, on Oct. 8, 2023.

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Rugby World Cup: Japan vs. Argentina

Japan's Naoto Saito (L) celebrates with teammate Rikiya Matsuda after scoring a try during the first half of a Rugby World Cup Pool D match against Argentina at Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, France, on Oct. 8, 2023.

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Rugby World Cup: Japan vs. Argentina

Japan's Naoto Saito (2nd from R) reacts after scoring a try during the first half of a Rugby World Cup Pool D match against Argentina at Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, France, on Oct. 8, 2023.

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Training - Toulouse

Japan player Naoto Saito from the Japanese rugby team trains at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Training - Toulouse

Japan player Naoto Saito from the Japanese rugby team trains at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Press Conference

Yutaka Nagare and Naoto Saito answers questions from journalists during a conference press at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Planica 2023

Snorri Eythor Einarsson (43) of Iceland, Jonas Baumann (35) of Switzerland, Hugo Lapalus (9) of France, Andrew Musgrave (6) of Great Britain, Iivo Niskanen (16) of Finland, Naoto Baba (19) of Japan, Dietmar Noeckler (20) of Italy, Pål Golberg (2) of Norway, Emil Iversen (WC 2021) of Norway and Eric Rosjö (18) of Sweden compete during men's 50km mass start classic style cross-country skiing competition at the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Planica on March 5, 2023. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Rugby: Japan's League One

Yokohama Eagles flanker Naoto Shimada (L) holds the ball at the back of a maul in the second half of a Japan Rugby League One match against Black Rams Tokyo at Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Feb. 4, 2023.

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PM Kan enters office

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan walks into the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2010.

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Miyazaki governor asks Kan to back revival of livestock farming

TOKYO, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru (L) and Prime Minister Naoto Kan shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 16, 2010. The governor asked Kan to support a fund to be set up to help revive local livestock farming, which has been hit hard by a recent epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease.

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Miyazaki governor asks Kan to back revival of livestock farming

TOKYO, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru answers questions from reporters after meeting Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 16, 2010. The governor asked Kan to support a fund to be set up to help revive local livestock farming, which has been hit hard by a recent epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease.

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Miyazaki governor asks Kan to back revival of livestock farming

TOKYO, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru (L) and Prime Minister Naoto Kan meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 16, 2010. The governor asked Kan to support a fund to be set up to help revive local livestock farming, which has been hit hard by a recent epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease.

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Japan marks 65th anniversary of WWII's end

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan pledges to maintain Japan's commitment not to engage in war and vowed to contribute to world peace at a government ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2010.

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Kan skips visit to Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki visits the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug. 15, 2010. Neither Prime Minister Naoto Kan nor any of his Cabinet members visited the shrine that day.

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Japan marks 65th anniversary of WWII's end

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan offers a bouquet at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2010. Japan marked the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II that day.

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Kan skips visit to Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - A group of lawmakers visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug. 15, 2010. Neither Prime Minister Naoto Kan nor any of his Cabinet members visited the shrine that day.

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Japan marks 65th anniversary of WWII's end

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan offers a bouquet at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2010. Japan marked the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II that day.

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N. Korea envoy lashes out at Japan

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Song Il Ho, North Korean ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, speaks during an interview at a hotel in Pyongyang on Aug. 13, 2010. Song said North Korea is ''disappointed'' by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's recent apology only to South Korea over Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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N. Korea envoy lashes out at Japan

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Song Il Ho, North Korean ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, speaks during an interview at a hotel in Pyongyang on Aug. 13, 2010. Song said North Korea is ''disappointed'' by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's recent apology only to South Korea over Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 25 Kyodo - Undated file photo shows Naoto Morimura, a University of Tokyo professor who will take charge of compiling manuals for doctors to help them cope with a large number of patients in the event of accidents or attacks, among other emergencies, during the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

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Ex-PM Kan speaks to his supporters

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan addresses his supporters in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2014, a day after securing his lower house seat under the proportional representation system, despite having been defeated in the single-seat electoral district.

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DPJ's Kan defeated in single-seat race

TOKYO, Japan - Election campaign posters for Naoto Kan, a former prime minister and candidate of the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan in the lower house election, are displayed at his campaign office in Tokyo's Fuchu City on the night of Dec. 14, 2014. Kan was defeated in the single-seat electoral district, although he may be able to secure a seat under the proportional representation system.

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Ex-PM Kan delivers antinuclear power lecture in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan stresses the necessity of breaking with nuclear power during a meeting held at the South Korean National Assembly in Seoul on Oct. 11, 2014.

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Debriefing report on 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

TOKYO, Japan - A debriefing report on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster containing testimony by key officials, including then power plant manager Masao Yoshida and then Prime Minister Naoto Kan, is shown on Sept. 11, 2014. The government made the report public for the first time amid controversy over Yoshida's remarks in closed hearings.

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Former PM Kan on nuclear crisis

CANBERRA, Australia - Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) speaks at Australia's federal parliament building in Canberra on Aug. 26, 2014. Kan, who was Japan's prime minister at the time of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, called for the full disclosure of testimonies regarding the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Japanese designer wins Taiwanese medal competition

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Naoto Fukasawa holds in Taipei on May 22, 2014, the medals he designed for the Tang Prize Medal and Diploma Design Competition. He won the medal category of the first biannual medal-design competition in Taiwan.

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DPJ to suspend membership of Kan

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan leaves after attending the Democratic Party of Japan's executive meeting at its headquarters in Tokyo on July 26, 2013. The DPJ decided to suspend the membership of Kan for three months -- a reduction from an earlier proposed expulsion -- for his support of an independent candidate in the July 21, 2013, House of Councillors election in defiance of a party decision.

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DPJ debating whether to expel ex-PM Kan

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who led the Democratic Party of Japan, leaves after attending a meeting of DPJ executives in Tokyo on July 24, 2013. The main opposition party discussed whether to expel Kan after he supported an independent candidate in the July 21, 2013, House of Councillors election in violation of party policy, but the party failed to reach a conclusion.

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DPJ asks ex-PM Kan to leave party

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda (standing) speaks during a meeting of DPJ executives in Tokyo on July 24, 2013. The main opposition party on the same day asked former DPJ leader and Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) to leave the party for supporting an independent candidate in the July 21, 2013, House of Councillors election in violation of party policy, DPJ sources said.