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	Tokyo Metropolitan University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shintaro Ishihara, a politician and novelist was voted the governor of Tokyo and has promised to renovate metropolitan academic institutes including Tokyo Metropolitan University.
		Disagreement is strong among the faculty of Humanities, since Ishihara plans to abandon all seminars of literature from the faculty and create a new faculty in Tsukisima where it takes one hour or more from Minamiosawa campus.
		If Ishihara realises his plan, Tokyo Metropolitan University will go away and in 2006 a new university Shuto Daigaku Tokyo(首都大学東京) will be settled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_University (271 words)

	Shintaro Ishihara. (World Beaters). - New Internationalist - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SHINTARO Ishihara is the best-known maverick of Japanese politics.
		Ishihara's remarks completely distort the actual historical record of the murder of up to 6,000 Koreans and Chinese by Japanese mobs following the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 when foreigners were rumoured to be poisoning wells and setting fires.
		Ishihara rails against everything from the reduction of the time hard-pressed Japanese kids have to spend in school to the country's non-nuclear peace constitution.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:95319883&refid=ink_tptd_mag (973 words)

	E-ASPAC
		Ishihara Shintaro was born in 1932 to a wealthy family and survived the war years with relatively little hardship.
		Shintaro’s elevation to celebrity status and his public persona reinforced the idea that he modeled his characters on real teenagers, and the lifestyle and mannerisms he depicted were authentic.
		But while many aspects of the Ishihara’s lifestyle differed from those of their fans, teenagers still responded positively by adopting other markers of style and identity in the novels and films that were more available for imitation because the novels and films fostered such a strong sense of authenticity.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /easpac/2002/shamoon.php3 (7523 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, to Speak..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Honorable Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo, will be delivering a speech entitled "The Future of Asia: The View from Tokyo" at 6pm on November 7, 2005 at the U.S. Trust Building, 114 West 47th Street in New York City.
		Ishihara was first elected as the Governor of Tokyo in 1999 and will hold office until his term is up in 2007.
		Ishihara was born in Kobe, Japan in 1932.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=208-10202005&site=rss (261 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| Cover: Rabble Rouser \| 4/24/2000
		Ishihara took advantage of a little-known provision in the country's tax code that allows local governments to impose certain kinds of taxes normally considered the central government's prerogative.
		Ishihara steps into the minefield of racial politics so often, and with such disastrous results, that one of his top aides conceded that he was relieved his boss took a day last week to inspect a forest on the outskirts of Tokyo.
		Ishihara's use of the term was particularly hurtful, because of the race-baiting that erupted after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/2000/0424/cover1.html (2238 words)

	City Mayors: Shintaro Ishihara - Governor of Tokyo
		Ishihara has argued that his outlook was formed by childhood experiences during the US occupation of Japan following the war, where he claims an American serviceman struck him with a rifle butt for simply failing to bow as his platoon passed Ishihara’s village.
		Ishihara was re-elected by a substantial margin in 2003, though his allies were reduced in the assembly elections of July 2005.
		Nobuteru Ishihara was appointed to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Koizumi in 2001 to oversee his key administrative reforms and then served as Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport until 2004.
	www.citymayors.com /mayors/tokyo_mayor.html (1863 words)

	JPRI Critique Vol. VII No. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ishihara's scheme exploits a provision in Japan's intergovernmental tax law that allows prefectural governments such as Tokyo to impose a local corporate tax based on criteria other than profits, which is the normal practice at present.
		Given this background, Ishihara scored heavily with the public by pointing to the official commitment to decentralize and wondering aloud why it should be problematic for Tokyo to exercise a little fiscal autonomy.
		Ishihara's tax has renewed discussion about a glaring deficiency of the decentralization laws: the very limited transfer of taxation powers from the central to the subnational governments.
	www.jpri.org /publications/critiques/critique_VII_5.html (1994 words)

	JPRI Critique Vol. IX No. 4
		Shintaro Ishihara, Tokyo’s fervently nationalistic governor, was a regular feature in the Japanese and international media long before he ran in and won the gubernatorial race in early 1999.
		Ishihara skillfully blended tax reform and populist issues by declaring that the banks were using metropolitan services while paying little or no taxes and failing to deal effectively with their non-performing loans and other problems.
		Ishihara is clearly keen, as Governor, to balance Tokyo’s books, but he is also just as eager to do it in a way that will enhance his prospects of becoming prime minister.
	www.jpri.org /publications/critiques/critique_IX_4.html (1953 words)

	Untitled
		Ishihara was unapologetic, and in the preface of the English version, he wrote that although he understood Morita's difficult position -- as a businessman, his business reputation was his most valuable asset -- he stood by his own words as written.
		Ishihara resigned from the LDP four years ago out of frustration, and the LDP (whose candidate, former high-ranking UN official Yasushi Akashi, placed an embarrassing fourth in the Tokyo elections), has been distancing themselves from him ever since.
		Ishihara has not yet learned that repeatedly saying "no" to powers like America, China, or the Japanese national government is not a means of saying "yes" to proactive policy.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/politics_east_asia/18740 (1320 words)

	Asia Times: Tokyo voters elect U.S. critic Ishihara as governor
		Tokyo - Shintaro Ishihara, a right-wing author and outspoken critic of Japan's defense alliance withthe U.S., has been elected governor of Tokyo, according to state broadcaster NHK Television.
		Ishihara is best known for his broadsides against Japan's reliance on the U.S for defense and his claims that the U.S. campaign to get Japan to open industries more to foreign competition is racially motivated.
		Ishihara was first elected to Japan's upper house in 1968.
	www.atimes.com /japan-econ/AD17Dh01.html (825 words)

	E-Budo.com - Ishihara says Tanaka deserved bomb threat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		NAGOYA — Tokyo Gov Shintaro Ishihara said Wednesday that Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka deserved to receive a bomb threat at his home earlier in the day because his attitude toward North Korea is too soft.
		Ishihara also criticized Tanaka for attempting to keep some of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's comments to U.S. President George Bush private after summit talks in May on how to deal with the North's nuclear development program.
		Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara remained unrepentant Thursday about his remark that Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka "deserved" the bomb that was placed in his garage, saying the act reflects public anger toward the bureaucrat's stance on North Korea.
	www.e-budo.com /forum/showthread.php?t=21475 (624 words)

	E-Budo.com - Ishihara takes air base to Washington (Part II )
		Ishihara later told reporters he knows the Yokota base issue is intrinsically a matter that should be handled by both national governments.
		Ishihara said he was asked about the noise a jumbo jet might make while using the runway at Yokota.
		Ishihara, who arrived in Washington on Sunday, is scheduled to hold a series of talks with U.S. government officials during his stay, which ends Friday.
	www.e-budo.com /forum/showthread.php?t=14538 (358 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On May 2, when Ishihara was having a difficult time in the appointment of a vice governor, he went to play golf with his four of his classmates.
		On June 2, Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, as part of his efforts to realize his election-campaign pledge to have the base "returned" or turned into "a joint-use airport by the military and the private sector," visited the United States forces' Yokota Air Base.
		Governor Ishihara's argument is strong enough to make us believe that having a third airport in the Tama area, which is not too far from the center of Tokyo, is indeed a good idea.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/dsjp/summaries/1999/June/Sm990604.doc (3919 words)

	Once Again Ishihara The Lunatic Can't Stop - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		However, outspoken Tokyo Gov Shintaro Ishihara has not only publicly announced that Tokyo has to be prepared for a terrorist attack, he is busy getting ready to cope with one.
		In fact, I think that Ishihara Shintaro is one of the few leaders in Japan that actually cares about the Japanese people and is working to secure the interests of OUR PEOPLE rather than being concerned about what other countries think about.
		Ishihara asks for Japanese people to be proud of their country and who they are.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=12079 (1491 words)

	Joi Ito's TypePad: Breakfast with Keiko Higuchi who is running for Governor of Tokyo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ishihara is an outspoken nationalist who rails against the United States and China and the central government.
		Ishihara is a well known writer who is able to capture the hearts of many Japanese with his catchy slogans and easy to understand policies that address many of the issues facing the average Japanese today.
		Ishihara is talking about ramping up the police force to stomp out crime (especially those committed by foreign immigrants) and is supportive of increasing the military power of Japan.
	joi.typepad.com /weblog/2003/04/breakfast_with_.html (521 words)

	[No title]
		Shintaro Ishihara has been described in some news accounts as a right-wing extremist, and Morita's association with him has been described as a foolish mistake.
		Ishihara a foolish mistake are making a basic error of a sort that has complicated our understanding of the relationship between the United States and Japan: they are imagining that the reception the book would be given in the United States should have played a major factor in Morita's decision.
		Ishihara and Morita have spoken of how the United States government has violated their copyright in distributing translations of the book to members of Congress, and Morita has gone on record as saying that he does not want to publish the book in the United States, as this might inflame relations between the two countries.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/japanno_readme.txt (1407 words)

	Tokyo governor uses earthquake drill to push rightwing, militarist agenda
		Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, an outspoken opponent of Japan's post-World War II constitutional limits on the functions of the armed forces, transformed the city's annual earthquake drill on September 3 into a platform for his bellicose nationalism and a public relations exercise for the normally unobtrusive Japanese military.
		Ishihara's comments hark back to the events following the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, when rightwing politicians whipped up a wave of hysteria, falsely accusing Korean immigrants in particular of setting fires and poisoning drinking water.
		Ishihara's response to Japan's stagnant economy, sharp trade conflicts and growing social tensions is similar to fascistic formations that have developed in the US and Europe.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/sep2000/jap-s18.shtml (1214 words)

	Japan urged to get tougher and rearm - smh.com.au
		Japan's leading right-wing politician, Shintaro Ishihara, has urged his country to rearm to face the threat of a hostile North Korea.
		Mr Ishihara, the Governor of Tokyo and a possible candidate for the prime ministership, has also urged his country to seek "revenge" against North Korea for its abduction of Japanese nationals.
		The controversial Mr Ishihara is one of Japan's most popular politicians, and is up for re-election next month as head of the city of almost 13 million.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/25/1048354595302.html (450 words)

	Japan: Tokyo Maverick Just One of the Crowd Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		TOKYO -- Shintaro Ishihara, governor of one of the world's most populous cities, sat comfortably in a white leather armchair in his private meeting room, the endless steel and neon of Greater Tokyo visible behind him through wall-length windows.
		Despite the grandeur of his surroundings, Ishihara, 73, no longer seems the threat he once was, when critics feared he would climb to the top job of prime minister and rebuild Japan into a military power.
		Ishihara once threatened that since silicon chips make up most of the innards of ballistic missiles, that Japan could snub the USA and tip world political scales by selling chips to the Russians.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1521192/posts (599 words)

	Far East Cynic: The wisdom of the Governor....... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ishihara has had the vision to recognize the real threat it poses to the Japanese way of life.
		Ishihara previously acknowledged the risks inherent in Japanese political life when he shrugged off the planting of a bomb at the home of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka in September 2003 by suggesting he might have deserved it.
		Ishihara can rest easily at night: Japan, at the very least, knows that political favors cannot be bought and sold at this venerable institution.
	fareastcynic.blogspot.com /2005/10/wisdom-of-governor.html (1326 words)

	Profile of Shintaro Ishihara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Nathan describes Ishihara as a national hero and for many Japanese an appealing alternative to the party hacks who led the government throughout the nineties, while the economy collapsed and scandals involving fraud, bribery, and collusion among government ministers and yakuza bosses toppled one cabinet after another.
		In the fall of 1955, when he was a twenty-three year-old college student, Ishihara wrote a short novel, “Season of the Sun,” that won the Akutagawa Prize, “the gateway to a career as a serious writer in Japan.” He had never written a novel before and wrote it in three days.
		Ishihara has a suite of offices on the seventeenth floor of the gargantuan Tokyo City Hall; a forty-five-story twin tower built in 1987 by Kenzo Tange.
	www.ezipangu.org /english/contents/news/naname/ishihara/ishihara2.html (1201 words)

	Shintaro Ishihara. - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Ishihara is the brother of the now long dead yujiro ishihara.
		Ishihara's thoughts are controversial, and even though I do not like the thought of it, they paralled what was in the back of most people's minds.
		Maybe Shintaro Ishihara is a bit of a nutter, but there has to be some kind of explaination why his book is so famous.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=13518 (1364 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Beware foreign rioters - Tokyo governor
		Tokyo's controversial Governor Shintaro Ishihara has told defence forces to prepare for rioting by foreigners in the event of a major disaster in the Japanese capital.
		Mr Ishihara made the speech during a ceremony at the GSDF's garrison in Nerima Ward, north-east of Tokyo, to mark its 49th anniversary.
		Mr Ishihara - elected as governor last April - has previously drawn criticism for saying the Nanking Massacre, in which hundreds of thousands of Chinese were slaughtered by Japanese troops in the 1930s, never happened.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/707389.stm (415 words)

	Can This Man Save Tokyo? (int'l edition)
		Ishihara has been grilling bureaucrats about the true depth of the city's burdens--and is still looking for the bottom.
		Ishihara's challenge is to use his popularity to change all this.
		Ishihara has even insisted that the government rent out the governor's palatial residence; he continues to live in the well-to-do suburb of Denen-Chofu.
	www.businessweek.com /@@sHztCWYQxW9cGQUA/1999/99_52/b3661172.htm (1037 words)

	phorum - Our World Forum at Asiawind - The danger of a latter-day Japanese Hitler
		Lost in the anger of the Chinese leadership was the fact that Ishihara Shintaro had an independent streak and flamboyant manner of expressing his political stand.
		Ishihara's ultranationalism can stir up jingoistic feelings, and the danger sign is that already the number of Japanese not amiable to China have increased several percentage point then.
		Ishihara Shintaro wants to break away from the leash of the Americans vis a vis military alliance, whereas Koizumi Junichiro appears to be leaning on the US.
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=3&i=2055&t=2055&v=f (3109 words)

	NY1: Politics
		Ishihara is known to be an outspoken nationalist and a controversial maverick in the Japanese political world.
		Ishihara later admitted that he likes Alaska the most out of all 50 states.
		Ishihara has a reputation of reprimanding reporters if he doesn't like their question, and he told one group of journalists at a press conference attended by NY1,”I have hay fever and am in a bad mood, so don't ask me stupid questions.”
	www.ny1.com /ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=50927&search_result=1&stid=3 (726 words)

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