Shintaro Ishihara the former governor of Tokyo has formed yet another political party given the appropriate name Next Generation. Ishihara is 81 and the other founding members are all over 70 yet they represent the "Next Generation."
Ishihara's previous party Japan Restoration was formed with Osaka Toru Hashimoto who is a younger version of Ishihara. Racist, ultra nationalist and historical revisionist.
Next Generation Party (次世代の党).
The 81-year-old Ishihara, a fixture on the fringes of government for decades, has been in search of a new moniker for his party of mostly-elderly men since falling out with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, with whom he jointly led the Japan Restoration Party.
The grouping of about 20 lawmakers include sworn allies, 74-year-old Takeo Hiranuma, Hiroyuki Sonoda, 72, and Nariaki Nakayama, 71, as well as wrestler-turned-politician Antonio Inoki, 71.
At a press event to reveal the party’s name, whose official English translation has not yet been decided, the firebrand Ishihara noted: “The situation that faces young people today is different from what we experienced.”
He's partly responsible for the current diplomatic chill between China and Japan when in February of 2012 he began soliciting private funds to purchase the Senkaku island from their private owner living in Saitama.
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