Shintaro Ishihara
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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 Hashim
Official portrait, 2003
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and U.S. Navy Commander Joseph Deleon at the Emergency Drill in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in September 2006
Ishihara at the Tokyo Governor's office (2009)
Shintaro Ishihara (upper) and Yukio Mishima (lower) in 1956 at the Bungeishunjū Building
Ninoy Aquino
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Benigno Simeón "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., was a Filipino politician and journalist who served as a senator of the Philippines and governor of the province of Tarlac. Aquino was the husband of Corazon Aquino,
Shintaro Ishihara
…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. Ishihara was often critical of Japan's foreign policy as being non-assertive…
Aquino, c. 1980s
Confernment of the Philippine Legion of Honor (rank of Pinuno) to Benigno Aquino Jr. (right) by then-Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay in August 1951
Undated photo of President Ferdinand Marcos meeting Aquino
The room where Aquino was detained from August 1973 to 1980