Draft:Hitoshi Kodama

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The native form of this personal name is Kodama Hitoshi. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Hitoshi Kodama
Born	児玉仁士 [Kodama Hitoshi] (1931-11-26)26 November 1931 Satsumasendai, Kagoshima
Died	8 February 2021(2021-02-08) (aged 89)
Occupations	Academic linguist
Notable work	Japansk-Frysk wurdboek 日本語フリジア語辞典 [Japanese-Frisian dictionary]

Hitoshi Kodama (Japanese: 児玉仁士, romanized: Kodama Hitoshi, 26 November 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a Japanese linguist and professor with interest in the West Frisian language of Friesland, Netherlands. He published Japansk-Frysk wurdboek, the Japanese-Frisian dictionary, in 2004.

Kodama studied Middle English at the University of Cambridge in the 1950s, where he discovered the Anglo-Frisian family of languages, where Old Frisian descented from, is closely related to historical English, and that became West Frisian. Since the 1990s, he came every summer to Leeuwarden for almost ten years, where he worked on the dictionary at the Fryske Akademy. Kodama completed the lexicon in 2001, after his retirement. The dictionary was published in 2004, having 1,100 pages and c. 22,500 Frisian words, along with their Japanese equivalents.

Kodama died in early February 2021, aged 89, due to kidney failure.

Works or publications

• Kodama, Hitoshi (2015). Japansk-Frysk wurdboek 日本語フリジア語辞典 [Japanese-Frisian dictionary] (in Western Frisian and Japanese). Tokyo: "Daigaku Shorin" 大学書林 [University Bookstore]. ISBN 978-4-475-00168-7. OCLC 956688578.

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• Linguists from Japan
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• Japanese expatriates in the Netherlands
• Deaths from kidney failure