“many sangokujin who entered Japan illegally.”
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Shintarō Ishihara
Shintaro Ishihara was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashimoto's Japan Restoration Party out of which he split his faction into the Party for Japanese Kokoro, he was one of the most prominent ultranationalists in modern Japanese politics. Ishihara was critic…
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culture · Japanese politician (1932–2022) · politician · explorer · writer · actor · novelist · journalist · screenwriter · playwright · film director · lyricist · also Shintarō Ishihara, Shintaro Ishihara, Ishihara Shintarō, Ishihara Shintaro, Shintarou Ishihara, Ishihara
Born 30 September 1932 · Died 1 February 2022 · Q38849
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
NDTV: Shintaro Ishihara
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2023· 1 entry
朝日新聞社: Shintaro Ishihara took dying in his stride, says son
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2022· 6 entries
The Washington Post: Shintaro Ishihara, fiery Japanese nationalist politician, dies at 89
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Yahoo: Japan's nationalist firebrand Shintaro Ishihara dies at 89
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Yahoo: Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese politician who set off row with China, dies at 89
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Yahoo Finance: UPDATE 1-Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese politician who set off row with China, dies at 89
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Died 2022-02-01.
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Yahoo Finance: Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese politician who set off row with China, dies at 89 -NHK
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2015).
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2012· 3 entries
“Westerners practicing judo resembles beasts fighting. Internationalized judo has lost its appeal.”
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“establishment of an independent Constitution, beefing up of Japan”
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Career landmark: member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2012–2014).
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2010· 2 entries
Ishihara claimed that Korea under Japanese rule was absolutely justified due to historical pressures from Qing dynasty and Imperial Russia
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“many veteran lawmakers in the ruling-coalition parties are naturalized or the offspring of people naturalized in Japan”
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2009· 1 entry
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 Minamiya
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2006· 1 entry
“Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans—I don”
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2005· 1 entry
That Tokyo would bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, which discouraged a bid by Fukuoka
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2004· 2 entries
“a language in which nobody can count”
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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
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2001· 1 entry
“old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin”
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2000· 1 entry
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
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of Tokyo (1999–2012).
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1990· 3 entries
Ishihara said in a Playboy interview that the Rape of Nanjing was a fiction, claiming, "People say that the Japanese made a holocaust but that is not true
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“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.”
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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"
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1989· 1 entry
Shortly after losing a highly contested race for the party presidency, Ishihara came to the attention of the West through his book The Japan That Can Say No, co-authored with Sony chairman Akio Morita
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Hirabayashi Taiko Prize (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Transport of Japan (1987–1988).
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1983· 1 entry
His campaign manager put up stickers throughout Tokyo stating that Ishihara's political opponent was an defector from North Korea
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1976· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of the Environment (1976–1977).
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1975· 1 entry
But lost to the popular Socialist incumbent Ryokichi Minobe
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1973· 1 entry
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
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1968· 2 entries
Ishihara ran as a candidate on the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) national slate for the House of Councillors
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Career landmark: member of the House of Councillors (1968–1972).
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Bungakukai Shinjin Award (1955).
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Awarded Akutagawa Prize for Season of the Sun (1955).
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1952· 1 entry
Ishihara entered Hitotsubashi University, and he graduated in 1956
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1934· 1 entry
His younger brother, Yujiro Ishihara (1934–1987) was an actor and singer; his sister-in-law, Mie Ishihara (b. 1933) was an actress; and his daughter-in-law, Risa Ishihara (b. 1 August 1963), was an actress and woman talent.
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-09-30.
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