| 草菅人命 | cǎo jiān rén mìng | to have disregard for human life (idiom) | |
| 菅直人 | jiān zhí rén | KAN Naoto (1946-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2010-2011 | |
| 菅原 | jiān yuán | Sugawara (Japanese surname) |
| 1 | Financial crisis made many petty bourgeois become grass roots. | |
| 2 | Nobuko Kan is famous in Japan for her elegant kimonos and a sharp tongue. | |
| 3 | The prime minister's wife Nobuko Kan, 65, who is renowned for pulling few punches , admitted that she is not the kind of person who supports her husband through encouragement. | |
| 4 | These and other domestic insights are revealed in a new book by the woman Kan has called his "opposition in the home", entitled What on Earth will change in Japan after you become prime minister? | |
| 5 | Mr Kan' s wife (his first cousin) is also well-regarded, mainly for her straight-talking manner and no-nonsense influence on Mr Kan. |