【Shintaro Ishihara is dead!】 On February 1, Shintaro Ishihara, who had served as governor of Tokyo and minister of transport in Japan, died at the age of 89.
In the 1970s, Shintaro Ishihara, along with other right-wing forces, formed the right-wing political group Qinglanhui and funded the construction of lighthouses on the Diaoyu Islands by Japanese right-wing youth. In the spring of 2012, Ishihara threw out Tokyo's plan to buy the Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands and raised donations, after which the Japanese government decided to "nationalize" them, resulting in the deterioration of Japan-China relations.
According to public information, Shintaro Ishihara served as governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012.