1932 - 2022
Shintaro Ishihara (石原 慎太郎, Ishihara Shintarō, 30 September 1932 – 1 February 2022) was a Japanese politician and writer who was 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. An ultranationalist, he was infamous for his misogynistic comments, racist remarks, xenophobic views and hatred of Chinese and Koreans, including using the antiquated pejorative term "sangokujin". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shintaro Ishihara has received more than 397,872 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Shintaro Ishihara is the 4,364th most popular politician (up from 6,114th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 496th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Japanese Politician.
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Among politicians, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 4,364 out of 15,577. Before him are John George II, Elector of Saxony, Anastasia of Kiev, John Dickinson, Yelü Chucai, Paolo Gentiloni, and Ibn Tumart. After him are Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, Igor Ivanov, John Hawkwood, Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Volusianus, and Alberic II of Spoleto.
1613 - 1680
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,358
1023 - 1074
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,359
1732 - 1808
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 4,360
1189 - 1243
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,361
1954 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,362
1097 - 1130
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,363
1932 - 2022
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,364
1604 - 1675
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,365
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 4,366
1320 - 1394
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 4,367
1840 - 1929
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 4,368
300 - 253
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 4,369
911 - 954
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 4,370
Among people born in 1932, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 77. Before him are Walter Gilbert, Rainer Weiss, Naina Yeltsina, Fernando Arrabal, Emmanuelle Arsan, and Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani. After him are Michael Smith, Oscar de la Renta, Joe Zawinul, Dieter Rams, Quino, and Hiroaki Sato. Among people deceased in 2022, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 76. Before him are Eric Walter Elst, Antonio Inoki, Bob Saget, Issey Miyake, Valeri Polyakov, and Margarita Lozano. After him are Angelo Badalamenti, Luis Echeverría, Sidney Altman, Leonid Kuravlyov, Frank Drake, and Gary Brooker.
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 71
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 72
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 73
1932 - Present
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 74
1932 - 2005
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 75
1932 - 2016
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 76
1932 - 2022
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 77
1932 - 2000
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 78
1932 - 2014
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 79
1932 - 2007
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 80
1932 - Present
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 81
1932 - 2020
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 82
1932 - 1988
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 83
1936 - 2022
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 70
1943 - 2022
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 71
1956 - 2022
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 72
1938 - 2022
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 73
1942 - 2022
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 74
1931 - 2022
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 75
1932 - 2022
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 76
1937 - 2022
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 77
1922 - 2022
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 78
1939 - 2022
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 79
1936 - 2022
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 80
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 81
1945 - 2022
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 82
Among people born in Japan, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 242 out of 6,048. Before him are Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), and Nobuyoshi Araki (1940). After him are Mōri Motonari (1497), Emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596), Prince Yasuhiko Asaka (1887), Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), Amakusa Shirō (1621), and Masaru Ibuka (1908).
1887 - 1990
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 236
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 237
1965 - Present
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 238
1915 - 1989
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 239
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 240
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 241
1932 - 2022
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 242
1497 - 1571
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 243
1596 - 1680
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 244
1887 - 1981
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 245
1464 - 1526
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 246
1621 - 1638
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 247
1908 - 1997
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 248
Among politicians born in Japan, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 90. Before him are Emperor Hanzei (336), Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830), Emperor Seinei (444), Issey Miyake (1938), Emperor Shōkō (1401), and Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887). After him are Mōri Motonari (1497), Emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596), Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), Amakusa Shirō (1621), Hōjō Tokimune (1251), and Emperor Sutoku (1119).
336 - 410
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 84
1830 - 1878
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 85
444 - 484
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 86
1938 - 2022
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 87
1401 - 1428
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 88
1887 - 1990
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 89
1932 - 2022
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 90
1497 - 1571
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 91
1596 - 1680
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 92
1464 - 1526
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 93
1621 - 1638
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 94
1251 - 1284
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 95
1119 - 1164
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 96