Being the former leader of the radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashimoto's Japan Restoration Party out of which he split his faction into the Party for Japanese Kokoro, [2 ] he was one of the most prominent…
He is the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, Japan.
Hakushaku Itagaki Taisuke was the founder of Japan’s first political party, the Liberal Party, or Jiyūtō. Born into a middle-ranking samurai family, Itagaki entered the service of his feudal lord in 1860 and emerged from subsequent…
Ishihara Shintaro, Japanese writer and politician who served as governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. He was known for his conservative views and often generated controversy, notably with the nationalist essay The Japan That Can Say No (1989…