Six high-profile contestants had already entered the 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial race when Shintaro Ishihara announced his candidacy at a news conference. Reporters held their breath in anticipation as ...

Ishihara Shintaro, the former Tokyo governor who first became known as the chronicler of the “Sun Tribe,” privileged kids living lives of leisure and license amidst the poverty of postwar Japan, has ...

Satomi Ishihara’s latest film “Missing” is bound to change the way audiences view her. By 2017, she had grown tired of playing straightforward roles that simply required glamor. “So I went straight to ...

Ishihara Shintaro, a fiery nationalist politician remembered as Tokyo’s gaffe-prone governor who provoked a spat with China by calling for Japan’s purchase of disputed islands in the East China Seas, ...

According to NHK, Japanese right-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara died on Tuesday at the age of 89. Ishihara has multiple identities: He is a writer, a politician, and a social activist. Therefore, ...

IN THE 1970s when the price of oil rose alarmingly, Takashi Ishihara, of Nissan, a Japanese car company, sought to persuade Americans that they needed a smaller car. It was not an easy message to get ...

TOKYO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Shintaro Ishihara, a fiery nationalist who was governor of Tokyo for more than a decade and set off a territorial row with China over a plan to buy islands claimed by both ...