Shintaro Ishihara in 1956

Shintaro Ishihara in 1956

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 1956 shows Shintaro Ishihara, currently the governor of Tokyo, soon after he won the Akutagawa literary award for his novel ''Taiyo no Kisetsu'' (Season of the Sun). At the time, the 23-year-old Ishihara was a student at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University.

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