Shintaro Ishihara

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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,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> he was one of the most prominent ultranationalists in modern Japanese politics.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Ishihara was infamous for his misogynistic comments, his xenophobic views and his racist remarks against Chinese and Koreans in Japan, including his use of the antiquated pejorative term "sangokujin".<ref name="Mizuho Aoki">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was also a denier of the Nanjing Massacre.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0" />

A critic of relations between Japan and the United States, his artistic accomplishments included his authorship of a prize-winning novel, his authorship of best-sellers, and his work in theater, film, and journalism. His 1989 book, The Japan That Can Say No, co-authored with Sony chairman Akio Morita (published in English in 1991), called on the authors' countrymen to stand up to America.

After an early career as a writer and a film director, Ishihara served as in the House of Councillors from 1968 to 1972, then he served as in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1995, just four years before he served as Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. He resigned from the governorship to briefly co-lead the Sunrise Party, before he joined the Japan Restoration Party upon his return to the House of Representatives in the 2012 general election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}. Japan Times. 16 December 2012</ref> He unsuccessfully sought re-election in the general election of November 2014, and officially left politics the following month.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In October 2021, Ishihara was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer while his wife, Noriko had ruptured aortic aneurysm, and given only three months to live amid a routine physical exam. Ishihara died from its complications on 1 February 2022, at the age of 89.<ref name=nytimes/>

Early life and artistic careerEdit

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Ishihara family; from left to right: Kiyoshi (father), Yūjirō (youngest brother), Mitsuko (mother), and Shintaro

Shintaro Ishihara was born on 30 September 1932 in Suma-ku, Kobe. His father, Kiyoshi Ishihara (1899–1951), an employee, later a general manager, of a shipping company, and his mother, Mitsuko Ishihara (1909–1992), a daughter of Sannosuke Kato from Hiroshima. He grew up in Zushi, Kanagawa, parts of Greater Tokyo Area. In 1952, Ishihara entered Hitotsubashi University, and he graduated in 1956. Just two months before graduation, Ishihara won the Akutagawa Prize (Japan's most prestigious literary prize) for the novel Season of the Sun.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His brother Yujiro played a supporting role in the movie adaptation of the novel (for which Shintaro wrote the screenplay).<ref name="citymayors">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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 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".<ref>Playboy, Vol. 37, No. 10, p. 76.</ref><ref>Stonefish, Isaac (1 November 2013) The Man Who Would Be Warlord. Foreign Policy.</ref>

In the early 1960s, he concentrated on writing, including plays, novels, and a musical version of Treasure Island. One of his later novels, Lost Country (1982), speculated about Japan under the control of the Soviet Union.<ref name="TimeCover">Larimer, Tim (24 April 2000) "Rabble Rouser" Template:Webarchive, TIME Asia.</ref> He also ran a theatre company, and found time to visit the North Pole, race his yacht The Contessa and cross South America on a motorcycle. He wrote a memoir of his journey, Nanbei Odan Ichiman Kiro.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

From 1966 to 1967, he covered the Vietnam War at the request of Yomiuri Shimbun, and the experience influenced his decision to enter politics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}, accessed 22 December 2010. Template:In lang</ref> He also was mentored by the influential author and political "fixer" Tsûsai Sugawara.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Political careerEdit

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.<ref>Emmerson, John J., Arms, Yen & Power: The Japanese Dilemma, (Tokyo: C.E. Tuttle, 1971), p. 339.</ref> After four years in the upper house, Ishihara ran for the House of Representatives representing the second district of Tokyo, and again won election.Template:Citation needed

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.<ref name="citymayors" />

Ishihara ran for Governor of Tokyo 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".<ref name=JT01/>

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.<ref name="TimeInterview">"'There's No Need For an Apology': Tokyo's boisterous governor is back in the headlines Template:Webarchive," TIME Asia, 24 April 2000.</ref> In 1983, his campaign manager put up stickers throughout Tokyo stating that Ishihara's political opponent was an defector from North Korea. Ishihara denied that this was discrimination, saying that the public had a right to know.<ref>河信基『代議士の自決ー新井将敬の真実』（河信基・三一書房）</ref>

In 1989, 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. The book called on his fellow countrymen to stand up to America.Template:Citation needed

Governor of TokyoEdit

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Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and U.S. Navy Commander Joseph Deleon at the Emergency Drill in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in September 2006

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Ishihara at the Tokyo Governor's office (2009)

In the 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election, 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.<ref name="TimeCover" />
Imposed a new tax on banks' gross profits (rather than net profits).<ref>DeWit, Andrew, and Masaru Kaneko, "Ishihara and the Politics of His Bank Tax" Template:Webarchive, JPRI Critique 9:4, May 2002.</ref>
Imposed a new hotel tax based on occupancy.<ref>"Tokyo hotel tax plan enacted," Kyodo News International, 24 December 2001.</ref>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}, Reuters, 3 March 2006.</ref>

Imposed cap and trade energy tax.<ref>Carbon Trades of Up to $212 Billion Opposed by Japan, South Korea Firms, Bloomberg, 13 January 2011.</ref>
Proposed opening casinos in the Odaiba district.<ref name="TimeCover" />
Declared in 2005 that Tokyo would bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, which discouraged a bid by Fukuoka.<ref>"Tokyo governor suggests bid for 2016 Olympics Template:Webarchive," Daily Times, 6 August 2005.</ref> 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. The project came under criticism- according to The Times, the bank had lost approximately 1 billion dollars worth of taxpayers' money through inadequate customer risk assessments.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Served as Chairman of Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Generated controversy from PETA for the culling of the 37,000 crows that populated Tokyo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}, First Regular Session of the Metropolitan Assembly, 2002. metro.tokyo.jp</ref>

He won re-election in 2003 with 70.2% of the vote,Template:Citation needed and re-election in 2007 with 50.52% of the vote.Template:Citation needed In the 2011 gubernatorial election, his share of the vote dipped to 43.4% against challenges by comedian Hideo Higashikokubaru and entrepreneur Miki Watanabe.Template:Citation needed

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.Template:Citation needed

Sunrise PartyEdit

Ishihara's new national party was expected to be formed with members of the right-wing Sunrise Party of Japan, which he had helped to set up in 2010.<ref name=JT01>Nagata, Kazuaki, "Ishihara leaves office with sights on Diet seat", The Japan Times, 1 November 2012.</ref> When announced by co-leaders Ishihara and SPJ chief Takeo Hiranuma on 13 November 2012, Sunrise Party incorporated all five members of SPJ. SP would look to form a coalition with other small parties including Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's Japan Restoration Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai).<ref name=JT02>Aoki, Mizuho (14 November 2012) "Ishihara, Hiranuma unveil new party", The Japan Times.</ref>

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.<ref name=JT02/>

Sunrise Party merger with the Japan Restoration PartyEdit

Only four days after the Sunrise Party was launched, on 17 November 2012, Ishihara and Tōru Hashimoto, leader of the Japan Restoration Party (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.<ref>New parties merge forces / Taiyo no To dissolves to join Ishin no Kai; Ishihara named chief. Daily Yomiuri. 18 November 2012</ref>

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.<ref>Matsumura, Ai (4 December 2012) "Survey: DPJ snubbed, Japan Restoration Party favored as coalition partner" Template:Webarchive. Asahi Shimbun.</ref>

Party for Future GenerationsEdit

In December 2014 general elections, he was a candidate for the Party for Future Generations, an extreme right-wing party, but he was defeated.<ref name="Mizuho Aoki"/> Following this, he retired from politics.Template:Citation needed

Political viewsEdit

Template:Conservatism in Japan Ishihara is generally described as having been one of Japan's most prominent extreme right-wing politicians.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was called "Japan's [Jean-Marie] Le Pen" on a program broadcast on Australia's ABC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was affiliated with the openly ultranationalist organization Nippon Kaigi.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Foreign relationsEdit

Ishihara was a long-term friend of the prominent Aquino family in the Philippines. He is credited with being the first person to inform future President Corazon Aquino about the assassination of her husband Ninoy Aquino, a former senator and exiled critic of Ferdinand Marcos, on 21 August 1983.<ref>"24 hours that changed Philippine history." Philippine Daily Inquirer, 21 August 2013. Accessed 28 August 2021. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/470559/24-hours-that-changed-philippine-history.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Ishihara was often 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."<ref name="TimeInterview" /> As part of the criticism, Ishihara published a book co-authored with the then Prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, titled "No" to ieru Ajia – tai Oubei e no hōsaku in 1994.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Ishihara was also long critical of the communist government of the People's Republic of China. He invited the Dalai Lama and the President of Taiwan Lee Teng-hui to Tokyo.<ref name="TimeCover" />

Ishihara was deeply interested in the North Korean abduction issue, and called for economic sanctions against North Korea.<ref name="NPQInterview">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Following Ishihara's campaign to bid Tokyo for the 2016 Summer Olympics, he eased his criticism of the PRC government. He accepted an invitation to attend the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and was selected as a torch-bearer for the Japan leg of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Views on foreigners in JapanEdit

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 sangokujin, and foreigners. He also speculated that in the event a natural disaster struck the Tokyo area, they would be likely to cause civil disorder.<ref>original in Japanese: "今日の東京をみますと、不法入国した多くの三国人、外国人が非常に凶悪な犯罪を繰り返している。もはや東京の犯罪の形は過去と違ってきた。こういう状況で、すごく大きな災害が起きた時には大きな大きな騒じょう事件すらですね想定される、そういう現状であります。こういうことに対処するためには我々警察の力をもっても限りがある。だからこそ、そういう時に皆さん（=自衛隊）に出動願って、災害の救急だけではなしに、やはり治安の維持も1つ皆さんの大きな目的として遂行して頂きたいということを期待しております。"</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His comment invoked calls for his resignation, demands for an apology and fears among residents of Korean descent in Japan,<ref name="TimeCover" /> as well as being criticised by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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On 20 February 2006, Ishihara also said: "Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans—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."<ref>Japan Threatened by China, Its Own Timidity: Ishihara", Bloomberg, 20 February 2007.</ref>

On 17 April 2010, Ishihara said "many veteran lawmakers in the ruling-coalition parties are naturalized or the offspring of people naturalized in Japan".<ref>与党の党首や幹部は帰化した人の子孫が多い</ref>

Other controversial statementsEdit

In 1990, 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. It is a story made up by the Chinese. It has tarnished the image of Japan, but it is a lie."<ref>Playboy, Vol. 37, No. 10, p. 63.</ref><ref name=":0">Historical Forces Drove U.S. and Japan to War; Rape of Nanking. New York Times. 2 December 1991 .</ref> He continued to defend this statement in the uproar that ensued.<ref>Chang, Iris (1997) The Rape of Nanking, Basic Books, Template:ISBN, pp. 201–2.</ref> He also backed the film The Truth about Nanjing, a Japanese film that denies the atrocity, framing it as Chinese communist propaganda.<ref>Hongo, Jun (25 January 2007){{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}, The Japan Times.</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Reed, Robert (28 July 2005) "The governor's artistic side"Template:Dead link, Daily Yomiuri.</ref>

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, 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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and turned into a video that was sent around the world as the Save Minamiyama Movement.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2010, Ishihara claimed that Korea under Japanese rule was absolutely justified due to historical pressures from Qing dynasty and Imperial Russia.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In reference to the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster, which claimed the lives of 20,000 people, Ishihara said that "the triple disaster was 'divine punishment from heaven', because Japanese people have become a greedy":<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

America's identity is freedom. Japan has no sense of that. Only responsible, material, and monetary greed. For many years, in the heart of Japanese people, who had always bounded with devil. This greed bounds with populism. Japanese people's identity is greed. These things need to be washed away from triple disaster. I think this is a divine punishment from heaven.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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However, he also commented that the victims of triple disaster in Japan were pitiable.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

This speech was 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 amid Akihito's response the victims of triple disaster in Japan. Then, Ishihara had to apologize for his comments.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Dead link</ref>

During the 2012 Summer Olympics, 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Ishihara has said that Japan ought to have nuclear weapons.<ref>Herman, Steve (15 February 2013) "Rising Voices in S. Korea, Japan Advocate Nuclear Weapons.". Voanews.com. Retrieved on 11 May 2014.</ref>

Proposal to buy the Senkaku IslandsEdit

On 15 April 2012, Ishihara made a speech in Washington, D.C., publicly stating his desire for Tokyo to purchase the Senkaku Islands, called the Diaoyu Islands by mainland China and Diaoyutai Islands in Taiwan, 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The government of Japan bought the islands in an effort to preempt the provocative bid, although the Chinese side viewed the purchase as an effort by Japan to bring the islands under Japanese sovereignty.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Ishihara married to Japanese essayist, Noriko Ishihara (石原典子, b. 1 January between 1933 and/or 1938Template:Efn – d. 8 March 2022) (formerly real name as Yumiko Ishida), a Hiroshima bombing survivor. The couple have four sons: Nobuteru (b. 19 April 1957), a politician; Yoshizumi (b. 15 January 1962), an actor and weatherman; Hirotaka (b. 19 June 1964), a politician; and Nobuhiro (b. 22 August 1966), a painter and artist.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.

Illness and deathEdit

In October 2021, Ishihara was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only three months to live. As Ishihara wanted to spend his last days at home without feeling pain, according to his son, Nobuteru, who asked a doctor specializing in terminal care to prescribe him painkilling medication. His wife, Noriko, was also unwell due to ruptured aortic aneurysm.

The couple's four sons and one daughter-in-law spent New Year's Day and other holidays at the house on a rotating basis with a resident nanny. Shintaro repeatedly told his son, Nobuteru, "Dying and boring", and "Please take care of everything else", as he wrote manuscripts on his sickbed.

On his last New Year's Day in January 2022 alongside his wife, Noriko, Ishihara had suddenly said: "I want to eat ramen and sushi." Unfortunately, Ishihara died at his home in Tokyo on 1 February 2022, at aged 89.<ref name=nytimes>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> About a month later on 8 March of the same year, his wife, Noriko had collapsed and died at aged 89, as if to follow in his footsteps.Template:Citation needed (Statements by his family and Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, pancreatic cancer and aortic aneurysm are both now 89-year-old Japanese couple's cause of death were unrelated to Fukushima disaster and COVID-19 infection.) Both of their bodies were cremated after their private funerals, and both of ashes were scattered at the sea.Template:Citation needed

They were survived by four sons, Nobuteru, Hirotaka, Yoshizumi, and Nobuhiro; and a daughter-in-law, Risa.Template:Citation needed

Books written by IshiharaEdit

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Shintaro Ishihara (upper) and Yukio Mishima (lower) in 1956 at the Bungeishunjū Building

Taiyō no kisetsu (太陽の季節), Season of the Sun, Winner of the Akutagawa Prize,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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 (新和漢朗詠集), New Wakan rōeishū (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), The Japan That Can Say No (in collaboration with Akio Morita), 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 and Kazuhisa Ogawa), 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 Mahathir Mohamad), 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 Special Award,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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'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 workEdit

Robert Ringer: Winning Through Intimidation, 1978

Translations in EnglishEdit

The Japan That Can Say No (in collaboration with Akio Morita), Simon & Schuster, 1991, Template:ISBN. Touchstone Books, 1992, Template:ISBN. Cassette version Template:ISBN. Disk version, 1993, Template:ISBN.

Film careerEdit

He acted in six films, including Crazed Fruit (1956) and The Hole (1957), and co-directed the 1962 film Love at Twenty (with François Truffaut, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Allusions in filmEdit

Ishihara served as a model for the character of Shinsaburô Ishiyama, a fictional Japanese Minister of Defence invariably replying No! to all foreign requests, in the 2006 satiric comedy Nihon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

HonoursEdit

Akutagawa Prize (1956)
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