was a Japanese politician and writer who was

Governor of Tokyo The is the head of government of Tokyo. In 1943, upon the unification of Tokyo City and Tokyo Prefecture, the position of Governor was created. The current title was adopted in 1947 due to the enactment of the Local Autonomy Law. Overview The ...

from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right

Japan Restoration Party The , also referred to in English as the Japan Restoration Association, was a Japanese political party. It was launched on 12 September 2012 and gained official recognition on 28 September 2012. The party grew from the regional Osaka Restoration A ...

, he was one of the most prominent

ultranationalists Ultranationalism or extreme nationalism is an extreme form of nationalism in which a country asserts or maintains detrimental hegemony, supremacy, or other forms of control over other nations (usually through violent coercion) to pursue its s ...

in modern

Japanese politics Politics of Japan are conducted in a framework of a dominant-party bicameral parliamentary constitutional monarchy, in which the Emperor is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government and the head of the Cabinet, which d ...

. An ultranationalist, he was infamous for his misogynistic comments, racist remarks, xenophobic views and hatred of

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

and

Koreans Koreans ( South Korean: , , North Korean: , ; see names of Korea) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Korean Peninsula. Koreans mainly live in the two Korean nation states: North Korea and South Korea (collectively and simply refe ...

, including using the antiquated pejorative term "

sangokujin is a Japanese term referring to residents of Korea (North and South) and Taiwan in the aftermath of World War II. The original term literally means "third country's citizen". Concept In the immediate aftermath of the war, the legal status of ...

". Also a critic of relations between Japan and the United States, his arts career included a prize-winning novel, best-sellers, and work also in theater, film, and journalism. His 1989 book, ''

The Japan That Can Say No is a 1989 essay originally co-authored by Shintaro Ishihara, the then Minister of Transport and leading LDP figure who would become governor of Tokyo (1999-2012); and Sony co-founder and chairman Akio Morita, in the climate of Japan's economic r ...

'', co-authored with

Sony , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...

chairman

Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka. Early life Akio Morita was born in Nagoya. Morita's family was involved in sake, miso and soy sauce production in the village of Kosugaya (currently a part of Tokoname ...

(released in 1991 in English), called on the authors' countrymen to stand up to the United States. After an early career as a writer and film director, Ishihara served in the

House of Councillors The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, ...

from 1968 to 1972, in the

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

from 1972 to 1995, and as Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. He resigned from the governorship to briefly co-lead the

Sunrise Party The , formerly known as the , was a conservative and nationalist political party in Japan. The SPJ was formed on 10 April 2010 by five Japanese lawmakers and parliamentarians, four former members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and an ind ...

, then joined the

and returned to the House of Representatives in the 2012 general election. He unsuccessfully sought re-election in the general election of November 2014, and officially left politics the following month.

Early life and artistic career

Shintaro Ishihara was born in

Suma-ku, Kobe is one of 9 wards of Kobe, Japan. As of February 1, 2012, it has an area of 30.0 km², and a population of 166,324, with 71,745 households. There is a white sandy beach in this ward, which attracts tourists to the Kansai region for sun ba ...

. His father Kiyoshi was an employee, later a general manager, of a

shipping company A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships. Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing ships by different kinds of cargo: # Bulk cargo is a type of special cargo that is ...

. Shintaro grew up in

Zushi, Kanagawa is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of June 2012, the city has an estimated population of 58,087, and a population density of 3,350 per km². The total area is . Geography Zushi is located at the head of Miura Peninsula, facin ...

. In 1952, he entered

Hitotsubashi University is a national university located in Tokyo, Japan. It has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Chiyoda. One of the top 9 Designated National University in Japan, Hitotsubashi is a relatively small institution specialized solely in social sciences ...

, and he graduated in 1956. Just two months before graduation, Ishihara won the

Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History The ...

(Japan's most prestigious literary prize) for the novel ''

Season of the Sun is a Japanese novel written in 1955 by Shintaro Ishihara, who later became a politician and was governor of Tokyo for 13 years from 1999 to 2012. It is the source of the name of the rebellious taiyōzoku () youth culture which emerged after Wo ...

''. His brother Yujiro played a supporting role in the movie adaptation of the novel (for which Shintaro wrote the screenplay). Ishihara had dabbled in directing a couple of films starring his brother. Regarding these early years as a filmmaker, he said to a ''

Playboy Magazine ''Playboy'' is an American men's Lifestyle magazine, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from H ...

'' interviewer in 1990 that "If I had remained a movie director, I can assure you that I would have at least become a better one than

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...

". In the early 1960s, he concentrated on writing, including plays, novels, and a musical version of ''

Treasure Island ''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure no ...

''. One of his later novels, ''Lost Country'' (1982), speculated about Japan under the control of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

.Larimer, Tim (24 April 2000
"Rabble Rouser"
, ''TIME Asia''. He also ran a theatre company, and found time to visit the

North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Mag ...

, race his yacht ''The Contessa'' and cross South America on a motorcycle. He wrote a memoir of his journey, ''Nanbei Odan Ichiman Kiro''. From 1966 to 1967, he covered the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...

at the request of ''

Yomiuri Shimbun The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are t ...

'', and the experience influenced his decision to enter politics. He also was mentored by the influential author and political "fixer"

Tsûsai Sugawara was a Japanese social activist, business leader, writer, art patron, and occasional actor. In the West he is best known for his cameo appearances in several of the last films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Business Career The son of a Kamakura railr ...

Political career

In 1968, Ishihara ran as a candidate on the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) national slate for the House of Councillors. He placed first on the LDP list with an unprecedented 3 million votes. After four years in the upper house, Ishihara ran for the

representing the second district of Tokyo, and again won election. In 1973, he joined with thirty other LDP lawmakers in the anti-communist ''Seirankai'' or "Blue Storm Group"; the group gained notoriety for sealing a pledge of unity in their own blood. Ishihara ran for

in 1975 but lost to the popular Socialist incumbent Ryokichi Minobe. Minobe was 71 at the time, and Ishihara criticized him as being "too old". Ishihara returned to the House of Representatives afterward, and worked his way up the party's internal ladder, serving as Director-General of the Environment Agency under Takeo Fukuda (1976) and Minister of Transport under Noboru Takeshita (1989). During the 1980s, Ishihara was a highly visible and popular LDP figure, but was unable to win enough internal support to form a true faction and move up the national political ladder.'There's No Need For an Apology': Tokyo's boisterous governor is back in the headlines
," ''TIME Asia'', 24 April 2000. In 1983 his campaign manager put up stickers throughout Tokyo stating that Ishihara's political opponent was an immigrant from North Korea. Ishihara denied that this was discrimination, saying that the public had a right to know. In 1989, shortly after losing a highly contested race for the party presidency, Ishihara came to the attention of the West through his book ''

'', co-authored with Sony chairman

. The book called on his fellow countrymen to stand up to the United States.

Governor of Tokyo

In the

1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election Tokyo held a gubernatorial election on April 11, 1999 as part of the 14th unified local elections. Incumbent Yukio Aoshima announced that he would not seek re-election. All major candidates ran as independents but several were supported by major pa ...

, he ran on an independent platform and was elected as Governor of Tokyo. Among Ishihara's moves as governor, he: * Cut metropolitan spending projects, including plans for a new Toei Subway line, and proposed the sale or leasing out of many metropolitan facilities. * Imposed a new tax on banks' gross profits (rather than net profits). * Imposed a new hotel tax based on occupancy. * Imposed restrictions on the operation of diesel-powered vehicles, following a highly publicized event where he held up a bottle of diesel soot before cameras and reporters. * Imposed cap and trade energy tax. * Proposed opening casinos in the

Odaiba today is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built in this area for defensive purposes in the 1850s. Reclaimed land offshore Shinagawa was dramatically expanded durin ...

district. * Declared in 2005 that Tokyo would bid for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, which discouraged a bid by Fukuoka. Tokyo's bid lost to that of Rio de Janeiro. * Set up the ShinGinko Tokyo bank to lend to SMEs (small medium enterprises) in Tokyo. This bank has lost approximately 1 billion dollars worth of taxpayers' money through inadequate customer risk assessments. * Served as Chairman of Tokyo's successful bid to host the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

. * Generated controversy from

PETA Peta or PETA may refer to: Acronym * Pembela Tanah Air, a militia established by the occupying Japanese in Indonesia in 1943 * People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an American animal rights organization * People Eating Tasty Animals, an ...

for the culling of the 37,000 crows that populated Tokyo. He won re-election in 2003 with 70.2% of the vote, and re-election in 2007 with 50.52% of the vote. In the 2011 gubernatorial election, his share of the vote dipped to 43.4% against challenges by comedian Hideo Higashikokubaru and entrepreneur

Miki Watanabe is a Japanese entrepreneur and politician. He founded the Watami chain of izakaya restaurants and headed the company until 2011, when he resigned to run in the 2011 Tokyo gubernatorial election. Watanabe's run for the governorship of Tokyo was i ...

. On 25 October 2012, Ishihara announced he would resign as Governor of Tokyo to form a new political party in preparation for upcoming national elections. Following his announcement, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly approved his resignation on 31 October 2012, officially ending his tenure as Governor of Tokyo for 4,941 days, the second-longest term after Shunichi Suzuki.

Sunrise Party

Ishihara's new national party was expected to be formed with members of the right-wing

Sunrise Party of Japan The , formerly known as the , was a conservative and nationalist political party in Japan. The SPJ was formed on 10 April 2010 by five Japanese lawmakers and parliamentarians, four former members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and an ind ...

, which he had helped to set up in 2010.Nagata, Kazuaki
"Ishihara leaves office with sights on Diet seat"
''The Japan Times'', 1 November 2012. When announced by co-leaders Ishihara and SPJ chief Takeo Hiranuma on 13 November 2012,

incorporated all five members of SPJ. SP would look to form a coalition with other small parties including Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's

(Nippon Ishin no Kai).Aoki, Mizuho (14 November 2012
"Ishihara, Hiranuma unveil new party"
''The Japan Times''. In November 2012, Ishihara and his co-leader Hiranuma said that the Sunrise Party would pursue "establishment of an independent Constitution, beefing up of Japan's defense capabilities, and fundamental reform of fiscal management and tax systems to make them more transparent". The future of nuclear power and the upcoming consumption tax hike were issues it would have to address with potential coalition partners.

Sunrise Party merger with the Japan Restoration Party

Only four days after the Sunrise Party was launched, on 17 November 2012, Ishihara and Tōru Hashimoto, leader of the

(JRP), decided to merge their parties, with Ishihara becoming the head of the JRP. Your Party would not join the party, nor would Genzei Nippon, as the latter party's anti-consumption tax increase policy did not match the JRP's pro-consumption tax policy. Reporting on a poll in early December 2012, ''Asahi Shimbun'' characterized the merger with Japan Restoration Party as the latter having "swallowed up" Sunrise. The poll, in advance of the 16 December Lower House elections, also said the association with SP could hurt JRP's chances of forming a ruling coalition even though JRP was showing strength relative to the ruling DPJ.

Party for Future Generations

In the December 2014 general elections he was a candidate for the Party for Future Generations, an extreme right-wing party, but was defeated. Following this, he retired from politics.

Political views

Ishihara is generally described as having been one of Japan's most prominent extreme right-wing politicians. He was called "Japan's Le Pen" on a program broadcast on Australia's ABC. He was affiliated with the openly ultranationalist organization Nippon Kaigi.

Foreign relations

Ishihara was a long-term friend of the prominent Aquino family in the Philippines. He is credited with being been the first person to inform future President

Corazon Aquino Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People P ...

about the

assassination Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have ...

of her husband Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. on 21 August 1983. Ishihara was often been critical of Japan's foreign policy as being non-assertive. Regarding Japan's relationship with the U.S., he stated that "The country I dislike most in terms of U.S.–Japan ties is Japan, because it's a country that can't assert itself." As part of the criticism, Ishihara published a book co-authored with the then Prime minister of Malaysia,

Mahathir Mohamad Mahathir bin Mohamad ( ms, محاضير بن محمد, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; ; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author, and physician who served as the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the office ...

, titled ''"No" to ieru Ajia – tai Oubei e no hōsaku'' in 1994. Ishihara was also long critical of the government of the People's Republic of China. He invited the Dalai Lama and the

President of the Republic of China The president of the Republic of China, now often referred to as the president of Taiwan, is the head of state of the Republic of China (ROC), as well as the commander-in-chief of the Republic of China Armed Forces. The position once had aut ...

Lee Teng-hui Lee Teng-hui (; 15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman and economist who served as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He was the fir ...

to Tokyo. Ishihara was deeply interested in the North Korean abduction issue, and called for economic sanctions against North Korea. Following Ishihara's campaign to bid Tokyo for the

, he eased his criticism of the PRC government. He accepted an invitation to attend the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Beijing, and was selected as a torch-bearer for the Japan leg of the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay.

Views on foreigners in Japan

On 9 April 2000, in a speech before a Self-Defense Forces group, Ishihara said crimes were repeatedly committed by illegally entered people, using the pejorative term ''

'', and foreigners. He also speculated that in the event a natural disaster struck the Tokyo area, they would be likely to cause civil disorder. His comment invoked calls for his resignation, demands for an apology and fears among residents of Korean descent in Japan, as well as being criticised by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Regarding this statement, Ishihara later said: On 20 February 2006, Ishihara also said: "Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood.

Africans African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** Ethn ...

—I don't mean African-Americans—who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent." On 17 April 2010, Ishihara said "many veteran lawmakers in the ruling-coalition parties are naturalized or the offspring of people naturalized in Japan".

Other controversial statements

In 1990, Ishihara said in a ''Playboy'' interview that the Rape of Nanking was a fiction, claiming, "People say that the Japanese made a holocaust but that is not true. It is a story made up by the Chinese. It has tarnished the image of Japan, but it is a lie." He continued to defend this statement in the uproar that ensued. He also backed the film '' The Truth about Nanjing'', a Japanese film that denies the atrocity. In 2000, Ishihara, one of the eight judges for a literary prize, commented that homosexuality is abnormal, which caused an outrage in the gay community in Japan. In a 2001 interview with women's magazine ''Shukan Josei'', Ishihara said that he believed "old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin," adding that he "couldn't say this as a politician." He was criticized in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for these comments, but responded that the criticism was driven by "tyrant… old women." During an inauguration of a university building in 2004, Ishihara stated that French is unqualified as an international language because it is "a language in which nobody can count", referring to the counting system in French, which is based on units of twenty for numbers from 70 to 99 rather than ten (as is the case in Japanese and English). The statement led to a lawsuit from several language schools in 2005. Ishihara subsequently responded to comments that he did not disrespect French culture by professing his love of French literature on Japanese TV news. At a Tokyo IOC press briefing in 2009, Governor Ishihara dismissed a letter sent by environmentalist Paul Coleman regarding the contradiction of his promoting the Tokyo Olympic 2016 bid as 'the greenest ever' while destroying the forested mountain of

Minamiyama Minamiyama (written: 南山 lit. "south mountain") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese women's footballer *, Japanese basketball player See also *南山 (disambiguation) , Chinese characters meaning "south m ...

, the closest ' Satoyama' to the centre of Tokyo, by angrily stating Coleman was 'Just a foreigner, it does not matter'. Then, on continued questioning by investigative journalist Hajime Yokota, he stated 'Minamiyama is a Devil's Mountain that eats children.' Then he went on to explain how unmanaged forests 'eat children' and implied that Yokota, a Japanese national, was betraying his nation by saying 'What nationality are you anyway?' This was recorded on film and turned into a video that was sent around the world as the

Save Minamiyama Movement Save, SAVE, or Saved may refer to: Places *Save (Garonne), a river in southern France *Save River (Africa), a river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique *Sava, a river in Eastern Europe also known as Save *Savè, Benin, a commune and city *Save, Govuro ...

In 2010, Ishihara claimed that

Korea under Japanese rule Between 1910 and 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan. Joseon Korea had come into the Japanese sphere of influence with the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876; a complex coalition of the Meiji government, military, and business offic ...

was absolutely justified due to historical pressures from Qing dynasty and

Imperial Russia The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended th ...

. In reference to the

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...

, Ishihara said "that the disaster was 'punishment from heaven' because Japanese have become greedy". However, he also commented that the victims of this disaster were pitiable. This speech quickly caused many controversies and critical responses from the public opinion, both inside and outside Japan. The governor of Miyagi expressed displeasure about Ishihara's speech, claimed that Ishihara should have considered the victims of the disaster. Ishihara then had to apologize for his comments. During the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, Ishihara stated that "Westerners practicing judo resembles beasts fighting. Internationalized judo has lost its appeal." He added, "In Brazil they put chocolate in norimaki, but I wouldn't call it sushi. Judo has gone the same way." Ishihara has said that Japan ought to have

nuclear weapons A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...

Proposal to buy the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands

On 15 April 2012, Ishihara made a speech in Washington, D.C., publicly stating his desire for Tokyo to purchase the

Senkaku Islands The are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan. They are located northeast of Taiwan, east of China, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands. They are known in main ...

, called the Diaoyu Islands by mainland China, on behalf of Japan in an attempt to end the territorial dispute between China and Japan, causing uproars in Chinese society and increasing tension between the governments of China and Japan.

Personal life and death

Ishihara was married to Noriko Ishihara and had four sons. Members of the House of Representatives

Nobuteru Ishihara is a Japanese politician who was Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2010 to 2012. He was born in Zushi, Kanagawa, the son of author and former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara. He attended Keio Gijuku High School and gradu ...

and

Hirotaka Ishihara is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kanagawa Prefecture and graduate of Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is ...

are his eldest and third sons; actor and weatherman Yoshizumi Ishihara is his second son. His youngest son,

Nobuhiro Ishihara Nobuhiro (written: 信広, 信宏, 信尋, 信淵, 信弘, 信敬, 修宏, 修弘, 伸宏, 伸博, 伸洋, 敦弘, 敦彦, 暢彦, 順大, 順裕, 展裕, 伸啓, 宣浩, or 亘弘) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name i ...

, is a painter. The late actor Yujiro Ishihara was his younger brother. He died from

pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of t ...

at his home in Tokyo on 1 February 2022, at the age of 89.

Books written by Ishihara

* ''Taiyō no kisetsu'' (太陽の季節), ''

'', Winner of the

, 1956 * ''Kurutta kajitsu'' (狂った果実), '' Crazed Fruit'', 1956 * ''Kanzen Na Yuugi'' (完全な遊戯), ''The Perfect Game'', 1956 * ''Umi no chizu'' (海の地図), ''Map of the Sea'', 1958 * ''Seinen no ki'' (青年の樹), ''Tree of the Youth'', 1959 * ''Gesshoku'' (月蝕), ''Lunar Eclipse'', 1959 * ''Nanbei ōdan ichi man kiro'' (南米横断1万キロ), ''10 Thousand Kilometers Motoring across South America'' * ''Seishun to wa nanda'' (青春とはなんだ), ''What does Youth Mean?'', 1965 * ''Ōinaru umi e'' (大いなる海へ), ''To the Great Sea'', 1965 * ''Kaeranu umi'' (還らぬ海), ''Unretreating Sea'', 1966 * ''Suparuta kyōiku'' (スパルタ教育), '' Spartan education'', 1969 * ''Kaseki no mori'' (化石の森), ''Petrified Forest'', Minister of Education Prize, 1970 * ''Shintarō no seiji chousho'' (慎太郎の政治調書), ''Shintaro's Political Record'', 1970 * ''Shintarō no daini seiji chousho'' (慎太郎の第二政治調書), ''Shintaro's Second Political Record'', 1971 * ''Shin

Wakan rōeishū The is an anthology of Chinese poems (Jp. ''kanshi ''漢詩) and 31-syllable Japanese waka (Jp. ''tanka'' 短歌) for singing to fixed melodies (the melodies are now extinct). The text was compiled by Fujiwara no Kintō ca. 1013. It contains 58 ...

'' (新和漢朗詠集), ''New

(Collection of Japanese and Chinese poems)'', 1973 * ''Yabanjin no daigaku'' (野蛮人の大学), ''University of Barbarians'', 1977 * ''Boukoku -Nihon no totsuzenshi'' (亡国 -日本の突然死), ''The Ruin of a Nation - Japan's Sudden Death'', 1982 * '' 'Nō' to ieru Nihon '' (「NO」と言える日本), ''

'' (in collaboration with

), 1989 * ''Soredemo 'Nō' to ieru Nihon. Nichibeikan no konponmondai'' (それでも「NO」と言える日本 ―日米間の根本問題―), ''The Japan That Still Can Say No - Principal problem of the Japan–US relations'' (in collaboration with

Shōichi Watanabe was an English scholar and one of Japan’s cultural critics. He is known for ultranationalist historical negationism. He was born in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture. A graduate of Sophia University, where he obtained his Master’s degree, he ...

and

Kazuhisa Ogawa Kazuhisa (written: , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese video game developer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese ba ...

), 1990 * ''Waga jinsei no toki no toki'' (わが人生の時の時), ''The Sublime Moment of my Life'', 1990 * ''Danko 'No' to ieru Nihon'' (断固「NO」と言える日本), ''The Japan That Can Strongly Say No'' (in collaboration with Jun Etō), 1991 * ''Mishima Yukio no nisshoku'' (三島由紀夫の日蝕), ''The Eclipse of Yukio Mishima'', 1991 * '' 'No' to ieru Asia'' (「NO」と言えるアジア)，''The Asia That Can Say NO'' (in collaboration with

), 1994 * ''Kaze ni tsuite no kioku'' (風についての記憶), ''My Memory about the Wind'', 1994 * ''Otōto'' (弟), ''Younger brother'',

Mainichi Publishing Culture Award is an annual award given to distinguished literary works and activities in the sectors literature and art, humanities and social science, natural science, and encyclopedic work, plus a special award. It was founded in 1947 and is sponsored by the M ...

Special Award, 1996 * '' 'Chichi' nakushite kuni tatazu '' ("父"なくして国立たず), ''No Country can Stand without "Father"'', 1997 * ''Sensen fukoku 'Nō' to ieru Nihon keizai -Amerika no kin'yū dorei kara no kaihō-'' (宣戦布告「NO」と言える日本経済 ―アメリカの金融奴隷からの解放―), ''Declaration of War, Economy of Japan That Can Say No - Liberation from America's financial slavery'', 1998 * ''Hokekyō o ikiru''(法華経を生きる), ''To Live the Lotus Sutra'', 1998 * ''Seisan'' (聖餐), ''Eucharist'', 1999 * ''Kokka naru gen'ei'' (国家なる幻影), ''An Illusion called Nation'', 1999 * ''Amerika shinkō wo suteyo 2001 nen kara no nihon senryaku'' (「アメリカ信仰」を捨てよ ―2001年からの日本戦略), ''Stop worshipping America - Japan strategy from 2001'', 2000 * ''Boku wa kekkon shinai'' (僕は結婚しない), ''I Won't Marry'', 2001 * ''Ima 'Tamashii' no kyōiku'' (いま「魂」の教育), ''Now, 'Spirit' Education'', 2001 * ''Ei'en nare, nihon -moto sōri to tochiji no katariai'' (永遠なれ、日本 -元総理と都知事の語り合い), ''Japan Forever – A Talk between Ex-Premier and Tokyo governor'' (in collaboration with Yasuhiro Nakasone), 2001 * ''Oite koso jinsei'' (老いてこそ人生), ''To get Old is the Life'', 2002 * ''Hi no shima'' (火の島), ''Island of Fire'', 2008 * ''Watashi no suki na nihonjin'' (私の好きな日本人), ''My Favorite Japanese People'', 2008 * ''Saisei''(再生), ''Recovery'', 2010 * ''Shin Darakuron -Gayoku to tenbatsu'' (新・堕落論-我欲と天罰),''New "On Decadance" - Greed and Divine Punishment'', 2011

Translation work

* Robert Ringer: ''Winning Through Intimidation'', 1978

Translations in English

* ''

'' (in collaboration with

), Simon & Schuster, 1991, . Touchstone Books, 1992, . Cassette version . Disk version, 1993, .

Film career

He acted in six films, including '' Crazed Fruit'' (1956) and '' The Hole'' (1957), and co-directed the 1962 film ''

Love at Twenty ''Love at Twenty'' (french: L'Amour à vingt ans, ja, 二十歳の恋, Hatachi no koi, it, L'amore a vent'anni, german: Liebe mit zwanzig, pl, Miłość dwudziestolatków) is a 1962 French-produced omnibus project of Pierre Roustang, consisti ...

'' (with

François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After a career of more tha ...

, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda).

Honours

(1956) *

Grand Cordon of the

Order of the Rising Sun The is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese government, created on 10 April 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge features rays of sunlight ...

(2015)

References

External links

Sensen Fukoku (Declaration of War) – Ishihara's official website (in Japanese)
* * Fackler, Martin

New York ''Times'', 9 December 2012. "Shintaro Ishihara, a novelist turned political firebrand, promises to restore Japan's battered national pride."
J'Lit , Authors : Shintaro Ishihara , Books from Japan
, - , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Ishihara, Shintaro 1932 births 2022 deaths People from Kobe Politicians from Kanagawa Prefecture Explorers of the Arctic Gambling in Japan Ministers of Transport of Japan Governors of Tokyo Hitotsubashi University alumni Far-right politics in Japan Japan Restoration Party politicians 21st-century Japanese politicians Japanese actor-politicians Japanese anti-communists Japanese nationalists Japanese dramatists and playwrights Japanese male film actors Japanese mystery writers Japanese polar explorers 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Japanese Shintoists Japanese theatre managers and producers Japanese war correspondents Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Japanese memoirists Nanjing Massacre deniers Right-wing populism in Japan Treasure Island War correspondents of the Vietnam War Akutagawa Prize winners Members of Nippon Kaigi Party for Japanese Kokoro politicians Nichiren Buddhists Recipients of the Order of Brilliant Star Historical negationism Deaths from cancer in Japan Deaths from pancreatic cancer