Naoto Kan

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.