Lowering the prestige of the government right now is the fact that Kan has not shown any talent for turning himself into a TV personality who can project a grand image of leadership. But his government is dealing without question as best it can in the face of four simultaneous crises, its efforts encumbered by huge logistical problems that no post-World-War-II Japanese government has ever faced before.
目前拉低政府声望的因素则是菅直人并未显露出任何成为电视名人的天赋，也无法因此树立一个领导者的宏观形象。但他的政府无疑正在全力应对4场同时发生的危机，而该政府的努力却被二战以后任何日本政府都不曾遭遇的重大信息沟通难题所拖累。