Meet Mrs Kan, Japan’s ‘Hillary’
World News • June 2010 • Views: 903
The wife of Japan’s new Prime Minister is affectionately known among ruling party lawmakers as ‘the Japanese Hillary’.
That is because Mrs Nobuko Kan is a brilliant campaigner for her husband come election time. The current US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played a key role when her husband, Bill, was successfully elected to the White House twice.
Indeed, colleagues and friends say that even 63-year-old Premier Naoto Kan is known to fear his wife. […]