About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Shintar Ishihara, Joseph Heco, Morihiro Hosokawa, Mei Shigenobu, Renh, Hiro Muramoto, Takashi Hiraoka, Nakae Ch min, Tomoyo Nonaka, Kosuke Takahashi, Katsuichi Honda, Kuga Katsunan, Sen Katayama, Hotsumi Ozaki, Naoki Inose, ta Ch fu, Tanzan Ishibashi, Toyohiro Akiyama, Suzuki Mosabur, Junnosuke Ofusa, Toshiyuki Maesaka, Hasegawa Nyozekan, Numa Morikazu, Eriko Yamatani, Peter Barakan, Toshinao Sasaki, Toshimitsu Motegi, Yoshiko Sakurai, Tsuneo Watanabe, Miyake Setsurei, Daisuke Tsuda, Junichi Ueno, Tar Kimura, Tetsuya Chikushi, Takashi Tachibana, Masayoshi Toyoda, Takashi Uesugi, Keiko Higuchi, Tomohiro Kojiro, S ichi ya, Kennosuke Sato, K ichi Iiboshi, Sakai Tanaka, Akihiro tani, Akiko D moto, Masahiko Katsuya, Hiroshi Kume, Hajime Takano, Masanori Ito, Keiko Furukawa. 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...
