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Date: 1999-06-27
Title: Landslide buries teahouse at Kiyomizudera temple
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Students on a school trip look at a heavy rain-triggered landslide which buried a teahouse in the compound of the Kiyomizudera temle in Kyoto on June 27.
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Date: 1999-07-03
Title: Largest unit of floating airport enters Tokyo Bay
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The largest piece of a giant floating steel sheet enters Tokyo Bay on July 3, pulled by tugboats. The steel sheet will be used for construction of a huge floating airport. The photo was taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the Uraga Channel off Kannonzaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, just south of Tokyo, on the morning of July 3.
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Date: 1999-09-03
Title: Leader of guerrillas who abducted Japanese engineers
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OSH, Kyrgyzstan - Photo shows Juma Namangoni, leader of the Islamic guerrillas who abducted a group of hostages, including four Japanese mining engineers, in southern Kyrgyzstan on Aug. 23. The guerrilla group is well-equipped and well-manned, a Kyrgyz government military officer, who took part in fighting with the guerrillas, told Kyodo News in an interview Sept. 2. Namangoni is said to be aged around 25.
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Date: 1999-06-11
Title: Megawati's party holds lead as votes trickle in
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The Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle (PDI-Perjuangan) remains comfortably ahead of the ruling Golkar party June 10 with 10.2% of the votes cast in the June 7 parliamentary election counted.
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Date: 1999-06-30
Title: Memorial service held for victims of 1959 plane accident
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Shoichi Higa lays flowers June 30 at a plaque dedicated to 11 elementary school children who were killed 40 years ago when a U.S. air force plane crashed into the school building. Higa, 76, was vice principal of the school, located in Ishikawa, Okinawa Prefecture, at the time of the accident.
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Date: 1999-06-27
Title: Mongolia's Sim wins WBA super featherweight title
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Lakva Sim (L), a 28-year-old boxer from Ulan Bator, jumps for joy after defeating Japanese champion Takanori Hatakeyama by TKO in the fifth round of a scheduled 12-rounder at the WBA super featherweight title fight in Tokyo on June 27. Sim became Mongolia's first world champion in professional boxing.
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Date: 1999-07-07
Title: Morning glory fair gets under way
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TOKYO, Japan - An unidentified vendor hawks pots of morning glories to her customers July 6 as the annual Morning Glory Fair opens at Iriya in downtown Tokyo. Fair organizers expect the three-day event to draw about 600,000 visitors.
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Date: 1999-07-01
Title: Mt. Fuji opens for summer season
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Climbers enjoy the sunrise from Mt. Fuji at 4:35 a.m., July 1 as Japan's highest mountain was opened to the public the same day for the summer season. The mountain will be closed again Aug. 31 for the winter season.
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Date: 1999-06-27
Title: Murai has record-setting win at Japan Women's Open
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Mayumi Murai double-bogeys the final hole of an even-par 72 on June 27, but still manages to come away with a record-setting victory in the Japan Women's Open golf tournament. She finished four rounds at Kasumigaseki Country Club with the record for most strokes under par (7) in the 32-year history of the event and the lowest strokes total (281) since the tournament went to 72 holes in 1982.
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Date: 1999-06-15
Title: Musashimaru enters capsule for medical checkup
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Yokozuna Musashimaru goes into a cocoon-like capsule for a medical checkup for fat and muscle levels at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on June 14. The checkup is part of a pre-tournament health examination for sumo wrestlers.
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Date: 1999-06-26
Title: Musashimaru performs 'dohyo-iri' at Atsuta Shrine+
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Newly promoted yokozuna Musashimaru (R) performs the ''dohyo-iri'' ring-purification ritual at Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya on June 26 prior to the opening of the 15-day Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on July 4. Musashimaru was accompanied by maegashira Musoyama, who served as sword-bearer for his senior Musashigawa stablemate.
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Date: 1999-07-04
Title: Musashimaru performs first 'dohyo-iri' ritual
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Newly promoted yokozuna Musashimaru performs the "dohyo-iri" ring purification ritual on the first day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium. The Samoan-born grand champion performs the "unryu" style of ritual with the right arm representing offense and the left arm symbolic of defense.
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Date: 1999-06-18
Title: N. Korea not to escalate confrontation, Hong says
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South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Hong Soon Young speaks at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club on June 18. Hong said North Korea is not likely to escalate confrontation with South Korea following an exchange of gunfire in the Yellow Sea earlier this week.
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Date: 1999-06-26
Title: N., S. Korea agree to discuss separated family issue
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North and South Korea agree on June 26 to put priority on discussing families separated after the Korean War. The photo shows South Korea's delegation head, Vice Unification Minister Yang Young Shik, meeting the press after a two-hour vice minister-level meeting at a Beijing hotel.
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Date: 1999-06-26
Title: N., S. Korea resume talks
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South Korea's Vice Unification Minister Yang Young Shik (R) shakes hands with Pak Yong Su (L), deputy director of North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Fatherland, at a Beijing hotel June 26, resuming inter-Korean vice minister-level talks.
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