Quote #7
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 That spacecraft was an outdated one.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.'
More from Shintaro Ishihara
- About the United States: 'Fifty years of subservience to the interest of the United States has deprived the Japanese of a national purpose …
- 'Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.'
- Regarding the famous novelist Yukio Mishima: 'Japan is not the same since with him gone, but his politics were a joke.'
- Regarding the bomb-planting at the private residence of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka: 'A bomb was planted there. I think it was d…
- 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 …
- Regarding a war between China and the United States: 'Wars are a war of attrition of lives. China holds no value at all for human life and …
- On political parties: 'A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.'
- About himself: 'I'm an existentialist--freedom and passion are the most important things to me. I was horribly disappointed when I learned …