{"id":526,"date":"2010-06-05T03:53:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T03:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=526"},"modified":"2014-07-30T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:13:17","slug":"japans-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japans-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s New Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (<strong>\u9ce9\u5c71\u7531\u7d00\u592b<\/strong> or Hatoyama Yukio) announced his resignation as Prime Minister. The former Prime Minister (pictured left) broke his promise to close an American military base in Okinawa (<strong>\u6c96\u7e04<\/strong>). Poor public opinion in the polls and with an upper house election coming up next month, Hatoyama was forced to resign.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this all mean? It means that Japan has a new Prime Minister. His name is Naoto Kan (<strong>\u83c5\u76f4\u4eba<\/strong> or Kan Naoto) and he is part of the Minshut\u014d (<strong>\u6c11\u4e3b\u515a<\/strong>) or the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). Kan was a finance minister under Hatoyama and earned the nickname Irakan (<strong>\u3044\u3089\u304b\u3093<\/strong>) or Fretful Kan, for his short temper.<\/p>\n<p>When Kan is appointed minister by the Emperor this June, he will become Japan\u2019s 94<sup>th<\/sup> Prime Minister. If he wants to stay as Prime Minister, Kan will have to tackle Japan\u2019s economy and continue to secure the confidence of the Sh\u016bj\u012bn (<strong>\u8846\u8b70\u9662<\/strong>) or the House of Representatives. If he doesn\u2019t, he will either have to resign or face the public humiliation of being ousted by Japan\u2019s House of Representatives. Japan has had a high turnover of Prime Ministers, and just like Hatoyama, Kan is not immune to resignation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Naoto Kan seeks to fill the shoes of Japan&#039;s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPOQWp9tca0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/06\/Naoto_Kan_cropped_KAN_Naoto_20071-e1275796912393.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>On June 2nd, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (\u9ce9\u5c71\u7531\u7d00\u592b or Hatoyama Yukio) announced his resignation as Prime Minister. The former Prime Minister (pictured left) broke his promise to close an American military base in Okinawa (\u6c96\u7e04). Poor public opinion in the polls and with an upper house election coming up next month, Hatoyama was forced to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japans-new-prime-minister\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9279],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prime-minister"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}