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Date: 1999-07-07
Title: N.Z. premier urges Obuchi to take initiative at summit
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand Prime Minister Jenny Shipley says the success of this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Auckland hinges partly on what kind of ''personal contribution'' is to be made by Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. Photo shows the New Zealand premier in an interview with Kyodo News in Wellington July 6 ahead of her visit to Tokyo later this month.
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Date: 1999-06-18
Title: Nakamura gives Japan the lead in Olympic qualifier
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Shunsuke Nakamura (R) curves a free kick into the bottom corner to give Japan a 1-0 lead against the hosts in their final Olympic first-round qualifying match in Hong Kong on June 18.
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Date: 1999-06-23
Title: Nanami officially presented in Venice
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Japan's soccer player Hiroshi Nanami speaks to the press June 22 in his first official appearance since joining the Italian First division team Venezia.
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Date: 1999-06-29
Title: NASA developing asteroid exploration vehicle
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has started developing this miniature asteroid exploration vehicle, NASA officials said June 28. The vehicle, called ''nanorover,'' will be taken to an asteroid by a MUSES-C spacecraft which will be launched by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, an affiliate of Japan's Education Ministry. The photo was provided by NASA.
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Date: 1999-07-02
Title: New yokozuna Musashimaru to seek 3rd victory in a row
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Newly promoted Samoa-born yokozuna Musashimaru, winner of the spring and summer sumo meets, will seek his 3rd straight Emperor's Cup at the 15-day Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament beginning July 4. Photo shows Musashimaru (L) trainning prior to the forthcoming tourney.
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Date: 1999-06-26
Title: No cooperation with current Yugoslav gov't, KLA says
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Hashim Thaqi, head of the Kosovo Liberation Army's (KLA) political bureau, says he has no intention to cooperate with the current Yugoslav administration in establishing an autonomous government in the Serbian province. He said this in a recent exclusive interview with Kyodo News in Pristina.
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Date: 1999-06-24
Title: Norinchukin Bank to bail out Miyagi 'shinren'
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Kazuo Nagai (L), managing director of the National Association of Prefectural Credit Federations of Agricultural Cooperatives, speaks at a news conference June 24 on plans to bail out the troubled 'shinren' credit federation of agricultural cooperatives in Miyagi Prefecture in cooperation with Norinchukin Bank
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Date: 1999-06-29
Title: Northern Kyushu hit by heavy rain
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People cross a flooded street in Fukuoka, Kyushu, on June 29. The Meteorological Agency said an active seasonal rain front brought heavy rain to regions from Kyushu in southwestern Japan to Tokai in central Japan. As much as 200 millimeters of rain is expected in northern Kyushu and the Shikoku and Chugoku areas, western Japan, over a 24-hour period from Tuesday morning, the agency said.
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Date: 1999-06-16
Title: NTT chief speaks at news conference
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Junichiro Miyazu, president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), speaks at a news conference at the NTT head office in Tokyo on June 16. He explained the circumstances that had led NTT to give up its takeover bid for International Digital Communications Inc. (IDC). Britain's Cable and Wireless PLC (C and W) earlier announced that its agreements with IDC shareholders gave it a 97.69% stake in the Japanese international telecom carrier.
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Date: 1999-06-30
Title: NTT chief speaks on reorganization
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Junichiro Miyazu, president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., speaks on NTT's major reorganization in an interview with Kyodo News this week. He said the telecom giant is considering slashing the workforce at its two regional carriers by some 3,000 to 100,000 to deal with the present difficult situation.
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Date: 1999-07-01
Title: NTT reorganized into holding company, three new firms
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NTT Communications Corp., a long-distance and international carrier, opens its operation in Tokyo on July 1 as part of reorganization of Japanese telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.(NTT). NTT was reorganized into a holding company, two regional carriers, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. (NTT East), Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. (NTT West), and NTT Communications.
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Date: 1999-07-01
Title: NTT split into 3 firms
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) President Junichiro Miyazu speaks at a news conference following reorganization of Japan's telecom giant July 1. In the biggest change since its privatization in 1985, NTT transformed itself into two regional companies and one long-distance and international carrier under a holding company with about 120 subsidiaries and affiliates under its umbrella.
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Date: 1999-06-30
Title: NTT to be reorganize
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Hidekazu Inoue (L), president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp., and Kazuo Asada (R), president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp., speak at a news conference June 30 following establishment of their new companies under a major shakeup of Japan's telecom giant, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT). Seated between them is Sho Nasu, chairman of a special panel that prepared for NTT's reorganization.
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Date: 1999-07-06
Title: NTT, JSAT agree on satellites
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TOKYO, Japan - Masanobu Suzuki (R), president of long-distance carrier NTT Communications Corp., and Takuya Yoshida, president of communications satellite operator Japan Satellite Systems Inc. (JSAT), shake hands at a Tokyo hotel July 6 in announcing a basic agreement on a new satellite communications venture.
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Date: 1999-06-21
Title: Obuchi arrives in London after G-8 summit
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (C) arrives at London's Heathrow airport at night June 20 after attending a three-day summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in Cologne, Germany. He was to hold talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on June 21 before heading for Reykjavik for talks with leaders of five Nordic countries -- Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
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