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Stranger Things Season 5 World Premiere - LA

Hiro Koda and Jahnel Curfman arrive at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Netflix's 'Stranger Things' Season 5 held at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on November 6, 2025 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Stranger Things Season 5 World Premiere - LA

Hiro Koda and Jahnel Curfman arrive at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Netflix's 'Stranger Things' Season 5 held at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on November 6, 2025 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Stranger Things Season 5 World Premiere - LA

Hiro Koda and Jahnel Curfman arrive at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Netflix's 'Stranger Things' Season 5 held at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on November 6, 2025 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Stranger Things Season 5 World Premiere - LA

Hiro Koda arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Netflix's 'Stranger Things' Season 5 held at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on November 6, 2025 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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Unheralded Koda wins Resort Trust Ladies

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Yoshimi Koda holds up the winner's cup after capturing her first career victory in the Resort Trust Ladies golf tournament at Grandee Karuizawa Golf Club in Nagano Prefecture on June 6, 2010. Koda, who turned pro just last year, finished 14-under for a 202 total, three shots ahead of Hiromi Takesue.

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Iraqi court sentences man to death for killing Japanese

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi central criminal court on Nov. 22 sentences Hussein Fahmi (file photo taken on March 6) to death for killing Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda in October 2004.

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Japan to issue commemorative silver coin

OSAKA, Japan - Charmine Koda, director of the United Nations Information Center in Japan, looks at a 1,000 yen silver coin to be issued in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Japan's U.N. membership at the Mint Bureau in Osaka on Aug. 30.

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Iraqi hostage-taker says beheaded Japanese wasn't tortured

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hussein Fahmi, who has confessed to his involvement in the murder of Japanese backpacker Shose Koda in 2004, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in an Iraqi Interior Ministry facility in Baghdad on March 6.

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Iraq to inform Japan about 2004 murder of Japanese hostage Fri.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hussein Fahmi tells in Iraqi television footage why his group killed Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in 2004. In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso told a press conference on March 3 that the Iraqi Interior Ministry plans to provide information about the murder later in the day.

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Man held in Iraq admits slaying Japanese man in 2004: police

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hussein Fahmi (photo), believed to be a member of a group close to al-Qaida, has admitted killing Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda, 24, in 2004, a senior Baghdad police official said on March 2. Photo was taken from footage aired by a local TV station.

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Suspect says Koda killed because Japan did not withdraw troops

AMMAN, Jordan - A group of Islamic extremists claims in an impage put up at an Internet website in October 2004 that they have abducted Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda in Iraq. An suspect arrested by Iraqi authorities has said Koda was killed because Japan did not follow his abductors' demand to withdraw Ground Self-Defense Force from Iraq, a senior Iraqi police official said on March 2. Japan is trying to verify information that the Iraqi authorities have arrested a suspect in the killing of the 24-year-old Japanese man who was traveling in Iraq, the Japanese Embassy in Iraq said.

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Suspect says Koda killed because Japan did not withdraw troops

NOGATA, Japan - Members of media organizations stand outside the house of Masumi Koda in Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on March 2 following reports that a suspect in the October 2004 slaying of his son, Shosei Koda, in Iraq has said he was killed because Japan did not follow his abductors' demand to withdraw Ground Self-Defense Force from Iraq. ''Now I just feel only emptiness, thinking why my son had to be killed,'' Masumi Koda said of the news

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National title valid for scandal-hit Komadai Tomakomai

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshifumi Koda (R), manager of the baseball team of Komadai Tomakomai high school, and other school officials bow at the end of a press conference in Osaka on Aug. 27 following the Japan High School Baseball Federation's ruling that the team's national championship title remains valid despite a beating incident by the teacher overseeing the team.

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Komadai wins 2nd straight national high school c'ship

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Yoshifumi Koda, manager of the Komadai Tomakomai baseball team, is tossed into the air after the team wins their second straight national high school baseball championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 20. Komadai beat Kyoto Gaidai Nishi in the final 5-3.

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Family holds funeral for murdered hostage

NOGATA, Japan - Setsuko Koda holds a photo of her son Shosei, who was killed by an Islamic militant group in Baghdad, at his funeral in Nogata, Fukuoka, Nov. 5.

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Family holds funeral for slain hostage Koda

FUKUOKA, Japan - Masumi Koda, father of Shosei Koda, a hostage slain in Iraq, makes an address in Nogata in Fukuoka Prefecture on Nov. 5. At center is Shosei's mother, Setsuko, and at right is elder brother, Maki.

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Plane carrying Koda's body arrives in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - A container carrying the coffin of slain Japanese hostage Shosei Koda is unloaded on arrival at Kansai International Airport in Osaka from Kuwait on Nov. 3.

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Slain hostage Koda's body arrives in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Masumi Koda (L) and his wife Setsuko, the parents of slain Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, arrive at Fukuoka airport Nov. 3 to receive their son's body. Shosei's body, after he was killed in Baghdad, was transported to his hometown in Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Koda's body arrives in Kuwait City

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa walks into a Kuwait hotel on Nov. 2 to receive the body of murdered Japanese hostage Shosei Koda that was flown to Kuwait City from Baghdad earlier in the day. The body is expected to arrive at Kansai International Airport in Osaka on Nov. 3.

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Tanigawa arrives in Kuwait to accompany Koda's body

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Senior Foreign Vice Minister Shuzen Tanigawa responds to questions from reporters on arriving in Kuwait from Jordan on Oct. 31 to accompany the body of slain Japanese hostage Shosei Koda back to Japan. Koda's body is expected to be transferred Nov. 1 from Baghdad to a U.S. military base in Kuwait.

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(6)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad is Koda's

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bloodstains remain at a site near Haifa Street in Baghdad, Iraq on Oct. 31, where the body of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda was found on Oct. 30.

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(3)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad as Koda's

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 31 about the slaying of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda.

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(5)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad is Koda's

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 31 about the slaying of Japanese hostage of Shosei Koda.

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(2)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad as Koda's

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura tells reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 31 that a beheaded body found in Baghdad was confirmed as that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda.

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(1)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad as Koda's

TOKYO, Japan - Photo, taken from footage posted on a website Oct. 26, shows Japanese hostage Shosei Koda sitting before three masked Islamic militants. The Japanese government on Oct. 31 confirmed that a beheaded body found in Baghdad was Koda's.

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(4)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad as Koda's

NOGATA, Japan - Reporters and camera crew gather before the house of Shosei Koda in Nogata, Fukuoka Precture, on Oct. 31 after a beheaded body found in Baghdad was confirmed to be his.

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Body flown to Kuwait confirmed not to be Japanese hostage

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at his official residence in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Oct. 30 about a Japanese hostage in Iraq. He vowed to make every effort to achieve the release of Shosei Koda, who was taken hostage by Islamic extremists in Iraq. (Pool photo)

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Body found in Iraq not Koda's, Hosoda says

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda speaks to reporters about the identity of a body found in Iraq, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30. Hosoda said the body was not that of Shosei Koda, who was taken hostage earlier in the week by militants in Iraq and threatened with death.

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(1)Family of Japanese hostage urges safe release

TOKYO, Japan - Kidnapping victim Shosei Koda's mother Setsuko (L) cries in a car Oct. 28, when she left the Tokyo office of the Al-Jazeera satellite news network. She appealed for her son's freedom in an interview. He has been kidnapped by a group of Islamic militants in Iraq.

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(2)Family of Japanese hostage urges safe release

TOKYO, Japan - Teary-eyed Setsuko Koda (R), mother of Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda who has been kidnapped by a group of militants in Iraq, and his elder brother Maki, plead for his release Oct. 39 in a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.

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Koda's aunt pleads for his life to be spared

NOGATA, Japan - Yumi Koda, aunt of Shosei Koda who is held hostage in Iraq, pleads for his immediate release in Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 28, saying, ''Shosei is a precious member of our family. We are really suffering.''

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Japan has made no contact with Iraq hostage takers

AMMAN, Jordan - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Amman on Oct. 28 after launching a local task force to deal with the case of Shusei Koda, held hostage in Baghdad by militants linked to al-Qaida.

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(2)Japan seeks to rescue hostage in Iraq, no troop pullout

NOGATA, Japan - Masumi Koda (L), flanked by his wife Setsuko, reads a statement near his house in Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, asking the government for help in securing the release of his 24-year-old son Shosei, who has been held hostage in Iraq by a radical group linked to the al-Qaida network.

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(1)Group kidnaps Japanese man, demands troop pullout from Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 27 following reports that a Japanese man was taken hostage by Al-Qaida-linked militants in Iraq. The man was identified as Shosei Koda, 24, of Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan.

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Manaka hits two-run homer

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows outfielder Mitsuru Manaka watches the ball after hitting a two-run homer off Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes relief pitcher Isao Koda with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning in Game 3 of the best-of-seven Japan Series at Jingu Stadium on Oct. 23.

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(1)Group kidnaps Japanese man, demands troop pullout from Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 27 following reports that a Japanese man was taken hostage by Al-Qaida-linked militants in Iraq. The man was identified as Shosei Koda, 24, of Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Japan seeks to rescue hostage in Iraq, no troop pullout

FUKUOKA, Japan - An undated file photo shows Shosei Koda, a 24-year-old man from Fukuoka Prefecture, who was held hostage in Iraq by a militant group linked to the al-Qaida network. (Kyodo)

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(2)Family of Japanese hostage urges safe release

TOKYO, Japan - Teary-eyed Setsuko Koda (R), mother of Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda who has been kidnapped by a group of militants in Iraq, and his elder brother Maki, plead for his release Oct. 39 in a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. (Kyodo)

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Body flown to Kuwait confirmed not to be Japanese hostage

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at his official residence in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Oct. 30 about a Japanese hostage in Iraq. He vowed to make every effort to achieve the release of Shosei Koda, who was taken hostage by Islamic extremists in Iraq. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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(2)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad as Koda's

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura tells reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 31 that a beheaded body found in Baghdad was confirmed as that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda. (Kyodo)

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(3)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad as Koda's

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 31 about the slaying of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda. (Kyodo)

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(4)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad as Koda's

NOGATA, Japan - Reporters and camera crew gather before the house of Shosei Koda in Nogata, Fukuoka Precture, on Oct. 31 after a beheaded body found in Baghdad was confirmed to be his. (Kyodo)

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(6)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad is Koda's

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bloodstains remain at a site near Haifa Street in Baghdad, Iraq on Oct. 31, where the body of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda was found on Oct. 30. (Kyodo)

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(5)Gov't confirms beheaded body found in Baghdad is Koda's

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 31 about the slaying of Japanese hostage of Shosei Koda. (Kyodo)

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Tanigawa arrives in Kuwait to accompany Koda's body

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Senior Foreign Vice Minister Shuzen Tanigawa responds to questions from reporters on arriving in Kuwait from Jordan on Oct. 31 to accompany the body of slain Japanese hostage Shosei Koda back to Japan. Koda's body is expected to be transferred Nov. 1 from Baghdad to a U.S. military base in Kuwait. (Kyodo)

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Koda's body arrives in Kuwait City

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa walks into a Kuwait hotel on Nov. 2 to receive the body of murdered Japanese hostage Shosei Koda that was flown to Kuwait City from Baghdad earlier in the day. The body is expected to arrive at Kansai International Airport in Osaka on Nov. 3. (Kyodo)

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Plane carrying Koda's body arrives in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - A container carrying the coffin of slain Japanese hostage Shosei Koda is unloaded on arrival at Kansai International Airport in Osaka from Kuwait on Nov. 3. (Kyodo)

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Family holds funeral for murdered hostage

NOGATA, Japan - Setsuko Koda holds a photo of her son Shosei, who was killed by an Islamic militant group in Baghdad, at his funeral in Nogata, Fukuoka, Nov. 5. (Kyodo)

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Komadai wins 2nd straight national high school c'ship

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Yoshifumi Koda, manager of the Komadai Tomakomai baseball team, is tossed into the air after the team wins their second straight national high school baseball championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 20. Komadai beat Kyoto Gaidai Nishi in the final 5-3. (Kyodo)

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National title valid for scandal-hit Komadai Tomakomai

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshifumi Koda (R), manager of the baseball team of Komadai Tomakomai high school, and other school officials bow at the end of a press conference in Osaka on Aug. 27 following the Japan High School Baseball Federation's ruling that the team's national championship title remains valid despite a beating incident by the teacher overseeing the team. (Kyodo)