Famous People with Name Kodama

Arata Kodama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Arata Kodama: a Japanese football defender currently playing for J1 team Shimizu S-Pulse.Kodama made his J. League debut for Gamba Osaka against Kashiwa Reysol on 10 May 2003. Despite making several appearances for Japan at youth level, he has so far been unable to break into the full national team.

Hideo Kodama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideo Kodama: was a politician and wartime cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan. He was the eldest son of famed Russo-Japanese War general Kodama Gentaro, and his wife was the daughter of Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake.Kodama was born in Yamaguchi prefecture. After graduating from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1900, he obtained a position at the Ministry of Finance), passing his career civil service examinations the same year. He served in a number of bureaucratic posts. During the Russo-Japanese War, he was assigned to the Imperial General Headquarters and sent to the Liaodong Peninsula (under Japanese occupation), where he served as liaison between the civilian government in Tokyo and the Japanese general armies in Manchuria

María Kodama            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

María Kodama: is an Argentine writer, translator, and literature professor. She is best-known as the widow of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, and the heir to his estate.She was the daughter of a Japanese architect. She met Jorge Luis Borges in one of the meetings about Icelandic literature. She became his secretary and later his wife on 26 April 1986. She helped him write Breve antología anglosajona (1978) and Atlas (1984) and translate Younger Edda by Snorri Sturlson. She is the president of Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges, which has headquarters in Buenos Aires.

Kazuoki Kodama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuoki Kodama: is a Japanese nordic combined skier who competed from 1989 to 1991.