'Koizumi's Children' blown away by winds of change

'Koizumi's Children' blown away by winds of change

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, one of the 83 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers who were elected in 2005 for the first time on the back of the popularity of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, bows to supporters at her campaign office in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2009, after losing her seat in the House of Representatives. Sato, a former chief economist at Credit Suisse First Boston who became one of Koizumi's ''assassin'' candidates fielded against LDP dissidents, was defeated in her constituency in Tokyo by the DPJ's Yoshio Tezuka, 42, who served two terms in the lower house before losing his seat in 2005.

A-Bomb survivors visit Enola Gay, urge Bush to visit Hiroshima

A-Bomb survivors visit Enola Gay, urge Bush to visit Hiroshima

WASHINGTON, United States - Yoshio Sato, 75, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, speaks to reporters in front of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, in Virginia on Aug. 4. Sato and two other survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki visited the museum displaying the Enola Gay B-29 bomber.

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.

A-Bomb survivors visit Enola Gay, urge Bush to visit Hiroshima

A-Bomb survivors visit Enola Gay, urge Bush to visit Hiroshima

WASHINGTON, United States - Yoshio Sato, 75, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, speaks to reporters in front of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, in Virginia on Aug. 4. Sato and two other survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki visited the museum displaying the Enola Gay B-29 bomber. (Kyodo)

'Koizumi's Children' blown away by winds of change

'Koizumi's Children' blown away by winds of change

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, one of the 83 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers who were elected in 2005 for the first time on the back of the popularity of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, bows to supporters at her campaign office in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2009, after losing her seat in the House of Representatives. Sato, a former chief economist at Credit Suisse First Boston who became one of Koizumi's ''assassin'' candidates fielded against LDP dissidents, was defeated in her constituency in Tokyo by the DPJ's Yoshio Tezuka, 42, who served two terms in the lower house before losing his seat in 2005. (Kyodo)

Yellow handkerchiefs in disaster area

Yellow handkerchiefs in disaster area

SENDAI, Japan - Fisherman Yoshio Sato displays yellow handkerchiefs in the Arahama area of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 28, 2012. Local residents have displayed yellow handkerchiefs like banners in the area to express hope for reconstruction from the March 2011 quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

Snow sculpture of creature from animated film "Nausicaa"

Snow sculpture of creature from animated film "Nausicaa"

Children look at a snow sculpture of Ohm, a creature in the Japanese animated film "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind," in Akita, Japan, on Feb. 16, 2017. Yoshio Sato, 56, who runs a hair salon in the city, spent two days making the sculpture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo