Most Japan voters want new PM
Most Japanese want a new prime minister to lead rebuilding after last month's earthquake and tsunami, newspaper polls showed yesterday, as the head of government was again scolded in parliament for his handling of the nuclear crisis that followed.
Nearly 70 percent of people surveyed by the Nikkei business daily said Prime Minister Naoto Kan should be replaced, and a similar number said the government's response to the nuclear crisis was not acceptable.
Kan was criticised again in parliament yesterday for his response to the nuclear disaster.
An opposition lawmaker suggested he had been ill-prepared from the start, pointing to Kan's admission that he could not recall the details of a drill last year that simulated a Fukushima-type incident.
"Prime Minister Kan is working hard and he must be experiencing difficulties. But many people have questions about Prime Minister Kan's leadership," opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Masashi Waki told the upper house budget committee.
Kan said he and his government were doing their best.
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