Yoshio Kodama
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Yoshio Kodama was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist and a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan. The most famous kuromaku, or behind-the-scenes power broker, of the 20th centur
Yoshio Kodama (first row, second from right) in a group photograph with right-wing doyen Mitsuru Tōyama in 1929
Kodama in January 1953 during a visit by conservative politicians Ichirō Hatoyama and Bukichi Miki to his Tokyo estate. Hatoyama became Prime Minister of Japan a year later. The photo was published in 1953 in Mainichi Shimbun.
Takijirō Ōnishi
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Takijirō Ōnishi was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze.
Yoshio Kodama
…a special procurement agency for them in China. This became known as the Kodama Kikan (Kodama Organization). Thanks to his relationship with Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi, Kodama had an exclusive contract as a purchasing agent in China for the Navy Air Service. With these resources, Kodama was able to use what he described…
Takijirō Ōnishi
The Japanese aircraft mother ship Wakamiya, from which the world's first ship-based air raids against German positions in Tsingtau were flown
Grave of Ōnishi at Sōji-ji