Naoto Kan had not only his inner party enemies. He had to deal with the tsunami and the Fukushima catastrophe and he had to deal with a press mostly connected with the atom village.

Even after the RJIF foundation published it's report the Nikkei in it's editorial from March 2th talked only about Kan's governments and his own failures not about how he stopped TEPCO to withdraw all it's staff from the nuclear power plant.

Kan had to deal with a political class which saw him as an enemy. He was not a princel like Abe, Fukuda and even Hatoyama. He was a 68 rebel, a human rights activist and dealt the HIV case in a way the member of the political class would never do it. So when he resigned this was very different to the situation of the other prime ministers after Koizumi.

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Siegfried Knittel