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is a Japanese politician, supreme advisor of Party for Future Generations and author who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. His arts career included a prize-winning novel, best-sellers and work also in theater, film and journalism. His 1989 book, ''The Japan That Can Say No'', co-authored with Sony chairman Akio Morita (1991 in English), called on the authors' countrymen to stand up to the United States. After an early career in the arts, he served for more than 25 years in the Parliament, leaving after the Tokyo subway attack in 1995. He subsequently served as Governor of Tokyo from April 1999 to October 2012, resigning to briefly co-lead the Sunrise Party, and then the Japan Restoration Party. He was elected to the Japanese lower house〔. Japan Times. December 16, 2012〕 in the 2012 general election, but lost two years later, and officially left politics. == Early life and artistic career == Shintaro Ishihara was born in Suma-ku, Kobe. His father Kiyoshi was an employee, later a general manager, of a shipping company. Shintaro grew up in Zushi, Kanagawa. In 1952, he 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''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=太陽の季節：ここに始まる-炎のランナー )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile of the Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government )〕 His brother Yujiro played a supporting role in the movie adaptation of the novel (for which Shintaro wrote the screenplay), and the two soon became the center of a youth-oriented cult.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mayors: Shintaro Ishihara: Governor of Tokyo )〕 Ishihara had dabbled in directing a couple of films starring his brother. Regarding these early years as a filmmaker, he stated to a ''Playboy'' 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".〔''Playboy'', Vol. 37, No. 10, p. 76.〕〔Stonefish, Isaac (November 1, 2013) (The Man Who Would Be Warlord ). Foreign Policy.〕 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.〔Larimer, Tim (April 24, 2000) ("Rabble Rouser" ), ''TIME Asia''.〕 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''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile of Shintaro Ishihara )〕 From 1966 to 1967, he covered the Vietnam War at the request of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. The experience influenced his decision to enter politics.〔, accessed December 22, 2010. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shintaro Ishihara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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