Yukio Edano emerges as Japanese Prime Minister's reliable right hand man

Yukio Edano followed Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan through the creation of a political party in 1996 and the ascent of their Democratic Party of Japan to power 18 months ago. Now, as Japan faces its worst crisis since World War II, he embodies Kan's strategy of transparency. "Kan can rely on Edano to keep things under control, as much as that's possible," said Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus. "The truth is, this is such an unlikely catastrophic event you can't as an organization prepare for it."
March 17, 2011 | Bloomberg