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Naoto Kan announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Japan after the Parliament passes two key pieces of legislation. [https:--web.archive.org-web-20121007025826-http:--news.ninemsn.com.au-world-8290652-japanese-prime-minister-expected-to-resign (AP via NineMSN)] [http:--www.mercurynews.com-news-ci_18760300?nclick_check=1 (AP via "San Jose Mercury News")]date=August 2019
2011-08-26

Workers enter one of the buildings at Japan's Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant for the first time since an explosion in the days following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-05-5

Japanese police search for the bodies of victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami near the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant for the first time due to declining radiation levels.
2011-04-14

Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan visits the areas of the country worst affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-04-2

A senior adviser to the Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan says that a fire has broken out in a fourth reactor at the Fukushima I power plant but it is later extinguished, with the radiation reading at 0831 local time (2331 GMT) climbing to 8,217 microsieverts an hour.
2011-03-15

Analysts believe that a nuclear meltdown may be occurring at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant disabled by the Japanese earthquake with a state of emergency declared at five plants.
2011-03-12

The Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan vows to find the remains of the 12,000 Japanese soldiers still missing after the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II.
2011-02-15

The Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan apologises to South Korea for colonising the Korean peninsula for three decades in the early 1900s and promises to return cultural relics in the near future.
2010-08-10

Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the People's Republic of China and Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan agree to establish a Prime Ministerial hotline between the two heads of government.
2010-06-13