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
Season of the Sun
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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
Shintaro Ishihara
…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. His brother Yujiro played a supporting role in the movie adaptation of the novel (for which Shintaro wrote the screenplay). Ishihara had dabbled in…
1956 edition cover