Shintaro Ishihara: Difference between revisions

 

== Illness and death ==

 

 

On his last [[Japanese New Year|New Year's Day]] in January 2022 alongside his wife, Noriko, Ishihara had suddenly said: "I want to eat [[ramen]] and [[sushi]]." He also saying in his last words: "Please, my wife, Noriko and I both accept my apology for my family, friends, and Japanese people that what will happened in the future." Unfortunately, Ishihara died at his home in [[Tokyo]] on 1 February 2022, at aged 89.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Kwai|first1=Isabella|last2=Inoue|first2=Makiko|date=2022-02-02|title=Shintaro Ishihara, Hawkish Ex-Governor of Tokyo and Writer, Dies of Pancreatic Cancer at 89|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/world/asia/shintaro-ishihara-dead.html|access-date=2022-02-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Hawkish ex-Tokyo governor and author Ishihara dies of pancreatic cancer at 89|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/02/24a90dbb4bfe-breaking-news-ex-tokyo-gov-shintaro-ishihara-dies-at-89-source.html|access-date=2022-02-03|work=[[Kyodo News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Shintaro Ishihara, Hawkish Former Governor of Tokyo and Writer, Dies of Pancreatic Cancer at 89|url=https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14537506|access-date=2022-02-03|work=[[The Asahi Shimbun]]|language=en}}</ref> About a month later on 8 March of the same year, his wife, Noriko had collapsed and died at aged 89, as if to follow in his footsteps.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} (Statements by his family and [[Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare|Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare]], [[pancreatic cancer]] and [[aortic aneurysm]] are both now 89-year-old Japanese couple's cause of death were unrelated to Fukushima disaster and COVID-19 infection.) Both of their bodies were [[Cremation|cremated]] after their private funerals, and both of ashes were scattered at the sea or [[Pacific Ocean]].{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}