Naoto Kan said Friday that Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda's resignation the same day over a pension payment scandal has not swayed his decision to stay on as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan.
Kan said he wants to use the scandal, which involves him and a number of other ruling and opposition lawmakers, to push for full-scale reform of the national pension system.
But many are still calling for his resignation, both from inside and outside the DPJ.