Japan Cabinet reshuffle

Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Tadamasa Kodaira, Japan's new chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, enters Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2012, as Noda reshuffled his Cabinet.

Former WWII kamikaze pilot recounts war experience

Former WWII kamikaze pilot recounts war experience

Tadamasa Itatsu, a former Japanese kamikaze pilot, talks about suicide flight missions during World War II at his home in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, as seen in this photo taken on March 6, 2014. Itatsu died of heart failure on April 6, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Former WWII kamikaze pilot Itatsu dies of heart failure

Former WWII kamikaze pilot Itatsu dies of heart failure

Tadamasa Itatsu, a former Japanese kamikaze suicide pilot seen in this file photo on May 3, 2014, died of heart failure on April 6, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Recipients of Grand Cordon of Order of Rising Sun at photo session

Recipients of Grand Cordon of Order of Rising Sun at photo session

Recipients of Japan's Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun attend a photo session at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 8, 2015. They are (from L) Iwao Uruma, former chief of the National Police Agency, Tsuyoshi Takagi, former head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Tadamasa Kodaira, former chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, Tadashi Okamura, former head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare, Kosuke Hori, former home affairs minister, former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, Etsuhiko Shoyama, former president of Hitachi Ltd., Hiromasa Yonekura, former chairman of Keidanren, Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Yoshihito Karasawa, former president of the Japan Medical Association, and Toshitsugu Saito, former chief of the Defense Agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Akashi castle

Akashi castle

Akashi Castle was built by Ogasawara Tadamasa in 1619, and the Matsudaira family became lords of the castle afterwards. The existing Hitsuji Saru Yagura and Tatsumiyagura show what it was like then.==Date:unknown, Place:Akashi, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number24‐7‐0]