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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Masayoshi hira, Shintar Ishihara, Sabur Kurusu, Kichimatsu Kishi, Kaf Nagai, Takashi Hikino, Yasuo Tanaka, Kenkichi Ueda, Heiz Takenaka, Iou Kuroda, Tran Van Tho, Naotake Sat, Hiroshi Okuda, Toshikazu Kase, Fusanosuke Kuhara, Futabatei Shimei, Sh z Murata, Harumi Takahashi, Wataru Yoshizumi, Ken Ishii, Masaru Hayami, Kotaro Suzumura, Koji Omi, Tsunei Kusunose, Takashi Kawamura, Masaji Kiyokawa, Michio Watanabe, Kunio Egashira, Yoshiharu Sekino, Asahiko Mihara, Naoki Minezaki, Tokuz Fukuda, Seiichiro Kashio, Hiroko ta, Zenjiro Kaneko, Hirofumi Hayashi, Takatoshi Ito, Zenzo Shimizu, Yoshinori Suematsu, Yoshitake Kimata, Koichiro Ichimura, Ichiro Nakayama, Taizo Mikazuki, Eiichi Sugimoto, Shigeyuki Tomita, Ichiro Yoshizawa, Taikichiro Mori. Excerpt: Shintar Ishihara Ishihara Shintar, born September 30, 1932) is a Japanese author, actor, politician and the governor of Tokyo since 1999. Shintar was born in Suma-ku, Kobe. His father Kiyoshi was an employee, later a general manager, of a shipping company. Shintar grew up in Zushi. In 1952, he entered Hitotsubashi University, and graduated in 1956. Just two months before graduation, Shintar won the Akutagawa Prize (Japan's most prestigious literary prize) for the novel Season of the Sun Taiy no kisetsu). His brother Yujiro played a supporting role in the screen adaptation of the novel, and the two soon became the center of a youth-oriented cult. 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. He also ran a theatre company, and found time to visit the North Pole, race his yacht The Contessa and crossed South America on a motorcycle (of which he turned his memoir of the journey into a best...
