7/25/2023 0 Comments Notable deaths![]() ![]() He was elected governor of Tokyo in 1999 and won four terms before resigning in 2012 to form the Sunrise Party. Later as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served in both the upper and lower houses of the Diet and held cabinet posts as director general of the Environmental Agency (now the Ministry of the Environment) and minister of transport. Season of Violence), which won the Akutagawa Prize for its depiction of rebellious postwar youth culture. Ishihara charged onto the literary scene while a student at Hitotsubashi University with his 1956 novel Taiyō no kisetsu (trans. Manga Artist Mizushima Shinji and the Fight for Gender Equality in Japanese Sportsįebruary 1 Ishihara Shintarō (89): Author, former member of the House of Representatives, former governor of Tokyo.Known for his realism, his works centered around baseball, including Otoko do ahō kōshien (“Men’s Dumbass Kōshien”), which debuted in the weekly comic anthology Shōnen Sunday in 1970, and later classics like Dokaben and Abu-san. He began his career as a mangaka after finishing second in a contest for new artists run by Osaka-based manga publisher Hinomaru Bunko. January 10 Mizushima Shinji (82): Manga creatorīorn in Niigata Prefecture in 1939, Mizushima worked various jobs while pursuing his interest in manga. He left the Liberal Democratic Party in 1994 to head the now defunct New Frontier Party. As premier from August 1989 to November 1991, he was the first major leader of a democratic country to visit China following the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising and made the controversial decision to send Self-Defense troops to the Persian Gulf to provide logistic support to the US military. He served as deputy chief cabinet secretary for Prime Minister Miki Takeo and was education minister under Prime Ministers Fukuda Takeo and Nakasone Yasuhiro. ![]() Born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, in 1931, he first won election to the House of Representatives at the age of 29. Kaifu rose to the office of prime minister in August 1989 and worked to rebuild public trust in the wake of a string of scandals that forced the resignation of a number of prominent politicians, including his predecessor Uno Sōsuke. January 9 Kaifu Toshiki (91): Former prime minister ![]()
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