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Hidankyo members at press conference in Tokyo

Terumi Tanaka (C), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, attends a press conference with Jiro Hamasumi (L) and Michiko Kodama, both deputy secretaries general of Nihon Hidankyo, at the National Press Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2024.

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Sterantis Japan Announces New EV “600e”

Sterantis Japan unveiled the new Fiat-branded 600e EV.=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Sterantis Japan Announces New EV “600e”

Sterantis Japan unveiled the new Fiat-branded 600e EV.=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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82nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack

Japanese Consul General in Honolulu Yoshinori Kodama makes a speech at a memorial service commemorating the victims of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii held on Ford Island, an islet in the harbor, on Dec. 8, 2023.

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82nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack

Japanese Consul General in Honolulu Yoshinori Kodama (R) offers flowers at a memorial service commemorating the victims of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii held on Ford Island, an islet in the harbor, on Dec. 8, 2023.

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Shinkansen business seats

Photo taken in an unknown location on Oct. 6, 2023, shows shinkansen bullet train seats that Central Japan Railway Co. will introduce from Oct. 20 in its Nozomi, Hikari and Kodama cars, running on the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen lines for those seeking to work comfortably. Making taking notes and using PCs easier, the more spacious S WorkP Seats cost an additional 1,200 yen (about $8).

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-ATHLETICS(CN)

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kodama Yusaku(R) of Japan and Dmitriy Koblov of Kazakhstan compete during the Men's 400m Hurdles heat of Athletics at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)

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Model train diorama installed on Shinkansen train

FUKUOKA, Japan - A model train diorama is installed on a Sanyo Shinkansen "Kodama" bullet train at West Japan Railway Co.'s rail yard in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 2, 2014. The renovated train will run between Shin-Osaka and Hakata stations from July 19 through March 2015, making one roundtrip a day.

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Yuji Kodama, leprosy activist, dies at 82

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2013 shows Yuji Kodama, a prominent fighter of discrimination against former leprosy patients, in a wheelchair in front of the health ministry in Tokyo. On May 11, 2014, Kodama died of lung cancer at a sanatorium in Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture. He was 82.

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A-bomb survivor publishes book, warns of radiation damage

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mitsuo Kodama, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima from within a 1-kilometer radius from the hypocenter and was exposed to an extremely high dosage of approximately 4,600 millisieverts of radiation, poses in front of the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima with his book "Hibakusha, Hiroshima karano Message" (Hibakusha, Message from Hiroshima) on March 25, 2014.

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A-bomb survivors pass on own experiences to support Fukushima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken March 6, 2013 in the city of Hiroshima shows atomic-bomb survivor Mitsuo Kodama with a photo of his damaged chromosomes. Kodama has continued efforts to raise public awareness about the horrors of radiation by showing people the photo when giving his testimonies of his ordeal.

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Japan, China in verbal war at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Li Baodong (L), Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 27, 2012, as part of a verbal war between top officials from Japan and China. After Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Kazuo Kodama, the Japanese deputy ambassador to the United Nations, exchanged words over the sovereignty of a cluster of islands in the East China Sea, Li said in his subsequent rebuttal, "The recent so-called island purchase by the Japanese government is nothing different from money laundering."

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Japan, China in verbal war at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Combination photo shows Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) and Kazuo Kodama, the Japanese deputy ambassador to the United Nations, addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 27, 2012. Yang accused Japan of stealing a cluster of islands in the East China Sea and "grossly" violating Chinese sovereignty in the process, while the Japanese envoy said in a rebuttal session following Yang's speech that the Senkaku Islands are "clearly an inherent territory of Japan based on historical facts and international law."

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Japan refutes China speech

NEW YORK, United States - The Japanese deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Kazuo Kodama, speaks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 27, 2012. In a rebuttal session following a speech of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, the Japanese envoy said the Senkaku Islands are "clearly an inherent territory of Japan based on historical facts and international law."

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Man arrested for forcing schoolgirl into bag

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Taxi driver Hisayuki Hoshiyama opens the trunk of his taxi, where a 12-year-old elementary schoolgirl in a large traveling bag was found, in the city of Hiroshima on Sept. 5, 2012. Tomohiro Kodama, a 20-year-old university sophomore in Tokyo, hailed Hoshiyama's taxi and put the bag in the trunk the previous day, but was arrested after the driver heard the girl's voice coming from the bag and asked a passerby to call the police while stopping at a red light. The girl, who had been forced into the bag after being threatened by Kodama with a knife, sustained no injuries.

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Man arrested for forcing schoolgirl into bag

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police unveil to reporters at Hiroshima Central Police Station in the city of Hiroshima on Sept. 5, 2012, a large traveling bag that a 12-year-old elementary schoolgirl was forced into by a 20-year-old man after being threatened with a knife the previous day. Tomohiro Kodama, a university sophomore in Tokyo, hailed a taxi and put the bag in the trunk, but was arrested after the taxi driver heard the girl's voice coming from the bag and asked a passerby to call the police while stopping at a red light. The girl sustained no injuries.

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Japan stresses need for speedy UNSC reform

NEW YORK, United States - Kazuo Kodama, Japan's deputy U.N. ambassador, speaks with reporters in New York on Nov. 28, 2011. During intergovernmental talks on the reform of the U.N. Security Council at the U.N. headquarters earlier the same day, Kodama stressed the need for facilitating the reform in a speedy manner.

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Death of Ghanaian man during deportation

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Koichi Kodama (R) looks at a photo of Abubakar Awudu Suraj, a Ghanaian man who died during the process of his deportation from Japan, at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2011. His Japanese widow filed a damages suit the same day against the state and nine immigration officers, alleging that the officers at Narita airport injured him and caused him to die in March 2010.

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Actor, TV personality Kiyoshi Kodama dies at 77

TOKYO, Japan - In this October 2002 file photo, Kiyoshi Kodama, actor and TV show host, poses with his favorite books at a hotel in Tokyo. Kodama died on May 16, 2011, of stomach cancer at the age of 77.

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Aioi Insurance names Kodama new president

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Kodama (L), senior managing director of Aioi Insurance Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 13 as President Akira Seshimo listens. Aioi said its board has decided to promote Kodama to president, effective April 1, when Seshimo will become chairman.

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1st of 2 women Shinkansen drivers makes debut

OSAKA, Japan - Rumi Yamashita, 27, the first of two Japanese women debuting as Shinkansen train drivers, conducts routine check Aug. 18 before setting off from Shin-Osaka Station at the controls of a bullet train ''Kodama 619'' bound for Hakata.

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Women receive certificates to drive Shinkansen

OSAKA, Japan - Rumi Yamashita (L) and Miyuki Fukuzawa hold their certifications for driving Sanyo Shinkansen bullet trains, which they received Aug. 17 from West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) at the company's Osaka branch. Yamashita, 27, and Fukuzawa, 29, who are the country's first female Shinkansen drivers, will make their debut driving Kodama trains leaving Shin-Osaka on Aug. 18.

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Japanese Military leaders st Shenyang, Manchuria

The Heads of the Japanese Military at the headquarters of their 'Manchurian Armies' at Mukden (now Shenyang), Manchuria following the end of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905). Following the Japanese victory, the Japanese concession at Mukden was one of the chief bases for Japanese economic expansion into southern Manchuria. Date: circa 1905

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1977, Japan.

The 1977 compilation of the Japan-Soviet 200 nautical mile problem. Children chase supercars. Mt. Usu eruption. Suguru Egawa refuses to join the Crown. Illustrations of a map of the 200 nautical mile area, a fishing boat in the sea, a Soviet ship, a meeting of party leaders, an illustration of a map of the four northern islands, a Japan-Soviet fishery agreement being exchanged, housewives arranging for food to be shipped directly from its place of origin, a pawn shop thriving, a supercar display event, happy children, a tardiness chart imitating a timetable, a long A long telephone receiver, a housewife using a gas stove for toilet gas, the eruption of Mount Usu, volcanic ash falling on the city, a home run by Oh, pitching by Taku Egawa, six Japanese Army personnel allowed to leave prison after the Japan Airlines hijacking incident, people resisting the Narita Airport issue and the Sanrizuka struggle. date unknown Date of shooting unknown, Release date: December 23, 1977.

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1976, Collected Works, Lockheed, This Year

A compilation of 1976: The arrest of Yoshio Kodama, Kakuei Tanaka, Tomizaburo Hashimoto and Koukou Sato for bribery from the US Lockheed Corporation. <Caption> Newspaper pages reporting on the Lockheed case, Diet scene with Kenji Osano as a witness, protest march on the Lockheed case, birth of quintuplets, young people running amok on cars and motorcycles, Prime Minister Takeo Miki's press conference on Lockheed, formation of the New Liberal Club, damage from Typhoon No. 17, Kakuei Tanaka's speech on the streets, date of shooting Unknown, Release date: December 24, 1976.

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(1) Yoshio Kodama

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Kodama (L), the reputed don of the Japanese underworld, attends the funeral of a friend. The photo was taken on April 7, 1967. (Kyodo)

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(2) Yoshio Kodama

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Kodama, the reputed don of the Japanese underworld, enters the Tokyo District Court for the Lockheed scandal trial. The photo was taken on June 2, 1977. (Kyodo)

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(3) Yoshio Kodama

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Kodama (C), the reputed don of the Japanese underworld, meets with Korean Central Intelligence Agency chief Kim Jong Pil (L) and Chak Young Taek at Kim's house in Seoul. The photo was taken in December 1962. (Kyodo)

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(2) Yoshio Kodama

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Kodama(C), a right-wing political fixer, poses to camera at the garden of his Tokyo residence. Photo was taken around 1971. (Kyodo)

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(4) Yoshio Kodama

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Kodama, the reputed don of the Japanese underworld, enters the Tokyo District Court for the Lockheed scandal trial. The photo was taken on June 2, 1977. (Kyodo)

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Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic Wild Knights' Kentaro Kodama breaks through to score a try during the first half of the 53rd All-Japan Championship match against Teikyo University at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2016. The Wild Knights, who won their fourth Top League title last week, beat the top university 49-15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wild Knights ground Eagles in playoffs opener

Kentaro Kodama scores a try during the first half of Panasonic Wild Knights' 46-6 win over Canon Eagles in Yokohama on Jan. 9, 2016, in the opening round of the LIXIL Cup, the playoff tournament to determine the Top League rugby champions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JAEA's new Pres. Kodama gives press conference

Toshio Kodama, new president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, gives a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2015. He did not clearly state the JAEA's target date for the Nuclear Regulatory Authority's lifting of a de facto ban on the troubled prototype fast breeder reactor Monju in Fukui Prefecture, saying it is a matter to be decided by the NRA. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyeongchang Paralympics

Nao Kodama (C) of Japan chases the puck during an ice hockey match against Sweden at the Pyeongchang Paralympics in Gangneung, South Korea, on March 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Luxury bag sharing app

Shoji Kodama, founder of Laxus Technologies Inc., speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2017. His company's luxury brand bags sharing app Laxus offers over 22,000 items for rental for a monthly price of $60. ==Kyodo

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Rugby: Panasonic flyer Kodama to play Super Rugby for Rebels

Photo taken in January 2016 shows then Panasonic Wild Knights wing Kentaro Kodama scoring a try in the first half of his team's 49-15 win over Teikyo University in the final of the national championship in Tokyo. Kodama has signed a one-year contract with the Melbourne Rebels, the Australian Super Rugby franchise said on Jan. 26, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JAEA chief questioned on stalled fast-breeder reactor project

Toshio Kodama, president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, responds in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2015, to questioning by the Nuclear Regulation Authority concerning a series of safety management problems at the JAEA-built Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kintai-kyo Bridge

Kintai Bridge was built in 1673 by Kikkawa Hiroyoshi, the third lord of Iwakuni Domain. It is said that Kodama Kurohemon designed the bridge. The bridge is a five-arched wooden structure. The bridge has been repaired about ten times in the past. Mid-Meiji Period. Hand-tinted.==Date:unknown, Place:Iwakuni, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐29‐0]

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Death of Ghanaian man during deportation

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Koichi Kodama (R) looks at a photo of Abubakar Awudu Suraj, a Ghanaian man who died during the process of his deportation from Japan, at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2011. His Japanese widow filed a damages suit the same day against the state and nine immigration officers, alleging that the officers at Narita airport injured him and caused him to die in March 2010. (Kyodo)

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Actor, TV personality Kiyoshi Kodama dies at 77

TOKYO, Japan - In this October 2002 file photo, Kiyoshi Kodama, actor and TV show host, poses with his favorite books at a hotel in Tokyo. Kodama died on May 16, 2011, of stomach cancer at the age of 77. (Kyodo)

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Model train diorama installed on Shinkansen train

FUKUOKA, Japan - A model train diorama is installed on a Sanyo Shinkansen "Kodama" bullet train at West Japan Railway Co.'s rail yard in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 2, 2014. The renovated train will run between Shin-Osaka and Hakata stations from July 19 through March 2015, making one roundtrip a day. (Kyodo)

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Japan stresses need for speedy UNSC reform

NEW YORK, United States - Kazuo Kodama, Japan's deputy U.N. ambassador, speaks with reporters in New York on Nov. 28, 2011. During intergovernmental talks on the reform of the U.N. Security Council at the U.N. headquarters earlier the same day, Kodama stressed the need for facilitating the reform in a speedy manner. (Kyodo)

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Mayor resigns over vote-buying scandal in Japan

The assembly of Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture, accepts Hiroshi Kodama's resignation as its mayor on July 3, 2020. Kodama received 600,000 yen from Katsuyuki Kawai, who once served as justice minister and has been arrested for alleged vote buying in 2019.

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Mayor resigns over vote-buying scandal in Japan

Hiroshi Kodama, mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, bows after his resignation was accepted by the local assembly on July 3, 2020. Kodama received 600,000 yen from Katsuyuki Kawai, who once served as justice minister and has been arrested for alleged vote buying in 2019.

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Mayor resigns over vote-buying scandal in Japan

Hiroshi Kodama, mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, speaks after his resignation was accepted by the local assembly on July 3, 2020. Kodama received 600,000 yen from Katsuyuki Kawai, who once served as justice minister and has been arrested for alleged vote buying in 2019.

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Mayor to resign over vote-buying scandal in Japan

Hiroshi Kodama, mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, bows in apology after announcing his intention to resign at a press conference in the city on June 30, 2020. Kodama received 600,000 yen from Katsuyuki Kawai, who once served as justice minister and has been arrested for alleged vote buying in 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mayor to resign over vote-buying scandal in Japan

Hiroshi Kodama, mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, announces his intention to resign at a press conference in the city on June 30, 2020, for receiving 600,000 yen from Katsuyuki Kawai, who once served as justice minister and has been arrested for alleged vote buying in 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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700-series bullet train

File photo taken at JR Tokyo Station in March 1999 shows a 700-series shinkansen bullet train Nozomi shortly after its debut. The 700-series trains, now mostly used as Kodama, the slowest of the three bullet train services on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, will be decommissioned from all services on the line in March 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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700-series bullet train

File photo taken at JR Tokyo Station in March 1999 shows a 700-series shinkansen bullet train Nozomi shortly after its debut. The 700-series trains, now mostly used as Kodama, the slowest of the three bullet train services on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, will be decommissioned from all services on the line in March 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of ADB Japanese office

Harumi Kodama, who was named to head the Asian Development Bank's Japanese Representative Office, is pictured in Manila on April 1, 2019. A long-serving communications specialist at the ADB, Kodama assumed her new post on May 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo