Shintaro Ishihara

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Shintaro Ishihara on September 1, 2006

Shintarō Ishihara ( Japanese 石 原 慎 太郎 Ishihara Shintarō ; born September 30, 1932 in Kobe ) is a Japanese writer and politician . In 1956, Ishihara received the most important Japanese literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize . From 1968 a member of the national parliament for the Liberal Democratic Party , he was later, among other things, Environment and Transport Minister. From 1999 to October 2012, Ishihara was the governor of Tokyo Prefecture (often referred to as Tokyo's “Mayor” in Western media ). Then he returned to national politics. He was most recently a member of the lower house of the national parliament for the Tokyo proportional representation block until 2014 and was saikō komon (“highest adviser”) of the Jisedai no Tō (“party of the next generation”).

Career

Ishihara graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1956 . Shortly before, he had received the Akutagawa Prize for his novel Taiyō no Kisetsu ( 太陽 の 季節 , German "Season of the Sun", English title: Season of Violence ) published in July 1955 . In the film adaptation of the novel he made his first appearance as a film actor. This novel had a great influence on the youth of that time and gave the Taiyōzoku youth culture its name.

From 1968 to 1972 he was a member of the LDP in the upper house , then until 1995 in the lower house. He was head of the environmental agency (1976-77) in the cabinet of Fukuda Takeo and transport minister (1987-88) under Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita . Within the party he headed the faction Jiyū Kakushin Dōyūkai ( 自由 革新 同 友 会 ) from 1983 until they joined the Fukuda faction a year later. 1989 Ishihara ran for the LDP party chairmanship , but was subject to Toshiki Kaifu and Yoshirō Mori . In 1995 he resigned as an MP.

In the 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election , Ishihara applied with the support of parts of the LDP prefectural association to succeed Governor Yukio Aoshima , who was not running for a second term. He received around 30% of the vote and prevailed against Kunio Hatoyama and 17 other candidates. In 2003 and 2007 he was re-elected with absolute majorities. In the 2011 election he received only around 43% of the vote, but was confirmed for a fourth term with a clear lead over his next challenger Hideo Higashikokubaru .

For a return to national politics in the general election in 2012 Ishihara resigned and in October 2012 founded on 13 November 2012 together with the previous Tachiagare Nippon the Sunrise Party ( "Party of the Sun"), in which he deals with Takeo Hiranuma the Party leadership shared. Four days later, the party went up in the Nippon Ishin no Kai , where Ishihara was initially the only party chairman. In the general election, Ishihara did not run in a constituency, only for a proportional representation. The Ishin no Kai could not win any of the 25 constituencies in Tokyo, but received 3 of the 17 seats in the proportional representation in the Tokyo block with almost 20% of the vote. Ishihara was placed in first place in front of the constituency candidates alone and was safely elected. From January 2013, Ishihara and Hashimoto shared the party leadership.

In a dispute over a merger with the Yui no Tō of Kenji Eda in 2014, Ishihara and Hashimoto agreed to split the party. Ishihara's followers gathered in the Jisedai no Tō in the summer of 2014, with Hiranuma as chairman. In the low-loss general election in 2014 , Ishihara ran for proportional representation only on the last list position, subordinate to the dual candidates, left the lower house and then declared his withdrawal from politics.

Political measures

Building policy

The Tokyo city center (= the interior of the Yamanote railway loop line ) with around two million inhabitants was in many places a large area in the late 1990s of single-family homes dominate. For this inner city, Ishihara gave an increase in the population of one million inhabitants, i.e. by 50%, as the middle goal. Above all, this leads to a liberal approval policy for residential high-rise buildings and skyscrapers. To compensate for the loss of green space, private builders are now obliged to green the roof of their building with lawn or green plants if the roof area exceeds 1000 m². Buildings erected by the prefecture administration (which, among other things, manage more than 200,000 apartments) have to have roofs of 250 m² or more.

However, Ishihara also authorized private companies to issue building permits for construction projects up to a certain size , which was previously reserved for the building authorities . This ostensibly de- bureaucratic measure has the de facto consequence that construction companies, above all the all-powerful zenekon in Japan , can now issue their own permits.

Senkaku Islands

In April 2012, Ishihara announced that Tokyo Prefecture would buy the Senkaku Islands, located in the far southwest of Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands , in order to protect them from being taken over by one of the two Chinese states, both of which are making claims on the islands.

Right nationalistic convictions

As early as 1989, Ishihara drew attention to his nationalist views with his book “No” to Ieru Nihon ( 「NO」 と 言 え る 日本 , literally: “Japan can also say no”). This was published in 1992 under the title Wir sind die Weltmacht, also in German.

In the meantime, Ishihara has also attracted attention internationally through right-wing extremist statements. So he referred to Korea and the People's Republic of China using the old Japanese term that characterized these countries as colonies of Japan during their Japanese occupation. Even after the topic made waves in East Asia, he did not apologize.

A decree by the Tokyo governor allows the Japanese right-wing extremists ( Uyoku ) to roam all the streets of the prefecture with any number of slogans, spreading battle songs and right-wing extremist slogans over loudspeakers.

TV star

Ishihara was a well-known man even before his political career, who was often seen on television at the same time as his then even more famous younger brother, the singer and actor Yūjirō Ishihara (* December 28, 1934 - July 17, 1987).

You can also see Governor Ishihara outside of the political broadcasts every few weeks as a star guest in variety shows on Japanese television , for example as a guest in the Japanese edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? . Often he takes one of his two grown-up sons with him as a tandem. In these programs he does not express himself politically, but is just a prominent guest.

family

Ishihara's sons Nobuteru (former LDP General Secretary, Chairman of the LDP Prefectural Association Tokyo) and Hirotaka both became members of the national parliament. Yoshizumi works for Fuji TV and as an actor. His youngest son Nobuhiro is a painter. Ishihara is distantly related to the Koizumi family of politicians from Kanagawa Prefecture through his wife Noriko .

Works (selection)

  • Taiyō no kisetsu ( 太陽 の 季節 , 1956): Akutagawa Prize
  • Kurutta kajitsu ( 狂 っ た 果 実 , 1956)
  • Umi no chizu ( 海 の 地 図 , 1958)
  • His no ki ( 青年 の 樹 , 1959)
  • Gesshoku ( 月 蝕 , 1959)
  • Ōinaru umi e ( 大 い な る 海 へ , 1965)
  • Seishun to wa nanda ( 青春 と は な ん だ , 1965)
  • Kaeranu umi ( 還 ら ぬ 海 , 1966)
  • Kaseki no mori ( 化石 の 森 , 1970): Minister of Education Prize
  • Yabanjin no daigaku ( 野蛮人 の 大学 , 1977)
  • “No” to ieru nihon ( 「NO」 と 言 え る 日本 , 1989): together with Akio Morita, English title: Wir sind die Weltmacht (1992)
  • Soredemo “No” to ieru nihon. Nichibeikan no kompon mondai ( そ れ で も 「NO」 と 言 え る 日本 - 日 米 間 の 根本 問題 - , 1990): together with Shōichi Watanabe and Kazuhisa Ogawa
  • Hisai ( 秘 祭 , 1988)
  • Seikan ( 生還 , 1988): Hirabayashi Taiko Literature Prize
  • Waga jinsei no toki no toki ( わ が 人生 の 時 の 時 , 1990)
  • Kaze ni tsuite no kioku ( 風 に つ い て の 記憶 , 1994)
  • Ototo ( 弟 , 1996): Special Prize from Mainichi Bungaku-sho
  • “Chichi” nakushite kuni tatazu ( “父” な く し て 国立 た ず , 1997)
  • Scythefukoku. “No” to ieru nihon. America no kinyū dorei kara no kaihō ( 宣 戦 布告 「NO」 と 言 え る 日本 経 済 - ア メ リ カ の 金融 奴隷 か ら の 解放 - , 1998)
  • Hokekyō o ikiru ( 法 華 経 を 生 き る , 1998)
  • Seisan ( 聖餐 , 1999)
  • Kokka naru genei ( 国家 な る 幻影 , 1999)
  • Boku wa kekkon shinai ( 僕 は 結婚 し な い , 2001)
  • Ima, “Tamashii” no kyōiku ( い ま 「魂」 の 教育 , 2001)
  • Oi te koso jinsei ( 老 い て こ そ 人生 , 2002)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uraaozora.jpn.org
  2. ↑ Taiyō no Kisetsu on IMDb
  3. ↑ Mizuho Aoki: Ishihara, Hiranuma unveil new party. In: The Japan Times . November 13, 2012, accessed November 13, 2012 .
  4. ↑ 「太陽 の 党」 旗揚 げ ＝ 石 原 氏 ら 記者 会見 . In: The Wall Street Journal . November 13, 2012, Retrieved November 13, 2012 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ 維新 、 太陽 と の 合流 決定 ＝ 代表 石 原 氏 、 代行 に 橋下 氏 . In: The Wall Street Journal . November 17, 2012, Retrieved November 17, 2012 (Japanese).
  6. ^ Hashimoto, Ishihara merge parties. Despite critical policy differences, sides unite for Lower House poll. In: The Japan Times . November 17, 2012, Retrieved November 17, 2012 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ Shintaro Ishihara to run in Tokyo proportional representation block in Japan's general election. Ishin no Kai's new president won't run in any single-seat constituency. In: The Japan Times . November 17, 2012, accessed March 28, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : General Election Results 2014, proportional representation, Block Tokyo, Jisedai no Tō
  9. ↑ 【さ ら ば 石原慎太郎】 引退 会見 詳 報 . In: Sankei News . December 16, 2014, Retrieved October 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  10. ↑ Tokyo wants to buy Senkaku Islands in: FAZ of April 18, 2012, page 5
personal data
SURNAME Ishihara, Shintaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 石 原 慎 太郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe