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POLITICIAN

Shintaro Ishihara

1932 - 2022

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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

Among politicians, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 4,364 out of 15,577Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 77Before 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 76Before 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.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 242 out of 6,048Before 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).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Shintaro Ishihara ranks 90Before 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).

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