Talk:Shintaro Ishihara

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• Regarding the Rape of Nanjing: "They say we made a holocaust there, but that is not true. It is a lie made up by the Chinese."
• About himself: "I’m an existentialist--freedom and passion are the most important things to me. I was horribly disappointed when I learned that Sartre was a Communist."
• On political parties: "A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away."
• On the status of politicians in Japan: "in Japan people avoid going into politics. I was really looked down on in literary circles [when I went into politics]."
• Regarding the famous novelist Yukio Mishima: "Japan is not the same since with him gone, but his politics were a joke."
• About the United States: "Fifty years of subservience to the interest of the United States has deprived the Japanese of a national purpose and engendered a paralyzing identity crisis." [After all, Japan] "is the only non-Caucasian society to have created a modern superpower."
• In response to China's first successful launch of a man in space: "The Chinese are ignorant, so they are overjoyed. That spacecraft was an outdated one. If Japan wanted to do it, we could do it in one year."
• “Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.”

• Regarding the bomb-planting at the private residence of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka: "A bomb was planted there. I think it was deserved."
• Regarding the Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011: "I think (the disaster) is tenbatsu (divine punishment), although I feel sorry for disaster victims." and "America's identity is liberty. France's identity is liberty, equality and fraternity. Japan doesn't have any sense of that. Just greed. Greed for nothing but money. The identity of the Japanese people is greed.This tsunami represents a good opportunity to cleanse this greed, and one we must avail ourselves of. Indeed, I think this is divine punishment."