Yoshio Yoda is a Japanese actor who played Fuji Kobiaji on the television series McHale's Navy. He also appeared in the movie The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962). After finishing McHale's Navy in 1966, Yoda appears to have had just one further role, in the 1969 segment of Love American Style entitled Love and the Letter.
In the cast reunion extra feature on the McHale's Navy first season DVD set, Edson Stroll (Virgil in the series) states that Yoda had later changed his name to James Yoda and worked as a Toyota vice-president. He also reported that Yoda had secured his American citizenship.
In Season 2, Episode 13, "A Letter for Fuji," the character is given the full name 'Fujiwara Takeo.'