Japan to bring the islands under Japanese sovereignty. Personal life Ishihara was married to Noriko Ishihara and had four sons. Members of the House of Representatives Nobuteru Ishihara and Hirotaka Ishihara are his eldest and third sons; actor and weatherman Yoshizumi Ishihara is his second son. His youngest son, Nobuhiro Ishihara, is a painter. Actor Yujiro Ishihara was his younger brother. In April 2011, Ishihawa has also Fukushima survivor amidst 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan. Illness and death In January 2022, Ishihawa has diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died at his home in Tokyo on 1 February 2022, at the age of 89. Books written by Ishihara Taiyō no kisetsu (太陽の季節), Season of the Sun, Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, 1956 Kurutta kajitsu (狂った果実), Crazed Fruit, 1956 Kanzen Na Yuugi (完全な遊戯), The Perfect Game, 1956 Umi no chizu (海の地図), Map of the Sea, 1958 Seinen no ki (青年の樹), Tree of the Youth, 1959 Gesshoku (月蝕), Lunar Eclipse, 1959 Nanbei ōdan ichi man kiro (南米横断1万キロ), 10 Thousand Kilometers Motoring across South America Seishun to wa nanda (青春とはなんだ), What does Youth Mean?, 1965 Ōinaru umi e (大いなる海へ), To the Great Sea, 1965 Kaeranu umi (還らぬ海), Unretreating Sea, 1966 Suparuta kyōiku (スパルタ教育), Spartan education, 1969 Kaseki no mori (化石の森), Petrified Forest, Minister of Education Prize, 1970 Shintarō no seiji chousho (慎太郎の政治調書), Shintaro's Political Record, 1970 Shintarō no daini seiji chousho (慎太郎の第二政治調書), Shintaro's Second Political Record, 1971 Shin Wakan rōeishū (新和漢朗詠集), New Wakan rōeishū (Collection of Japanese and Chinese poems), 1973 Yabanjin no daigaku (野蛮人の大学), University of Barbarians, 1977 Boukoku -Nihon no totsuzenshi (亡国 -日本の突然死), The Ruin of a Nation - Japan's Sudden Death, 1982 'Nō' to ieru Nihon (「NO」と言える日本), The Japan That Can Say No (in collaboration with Akio Morita), 1989 Soredemo 'Nō' to ieru Nihon. Nichibeikan no konponmondai (それでも「NO」と言える日本 ―日米間の根本問題―), The Japan That Still Can Say No - Principal problem of the Japan–US relations (in collaboration with Shōichi Watanabe and Kazuhisa Ogawa), 1990 Waga jinsei no toki no toki (わが人生の時の時), The Sublime Moment of my Life, 1990 Danko 'No' to ieru Nihon (断固「NO」と言える日本), The Japan That Can Strongly Say No (in collaboration with Jun Etō), 1991 Mishima Yukio no nisshoku (三島由紀夫の日蝕), The Eclipse of Yukio Mishima, 1991 'No' to ieru Asia (「NO」と言えるアジア)，The Asia That Can Say NO (in collaboration with Mahathir Mohamad), 1994 Kaze ni tsuite no kioku (風についての記憶), My Memory about the Wind, 1994 Otōto (弟),