Go-Playing Kan Loses as Resignation Sparks Successor Race
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Japanese 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.