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Date: 1999-04-16
Title: Group demands Ishihara stop using 'Shina'
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Members of a Hong Kong civic group hold a banner in front of the Japanese Consulate on April 15, demanding Tokyo Gov.-elect Shintaro Ishihara stop using the word ''Shina'' when referring to China. Shina, a little-used holdover from the days when Japan occupied Manchuria in northeastern China, is considered to be a derogatory way of referring to China.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-02-01
Title: GSDF mission returns from Golan Heights
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Twenty members of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) arrive at Narita airport Feb. 1 from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after a 6-month U.N. peacekeeping operation. They are the first group of a 43-member contingent, the sixth unit to be sent by Japan to the Syria-based U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, and carried out transport tasks.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-02-04
Title: Guidebook for foreign students published.
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A book published by a Tokyo-based publisher, Asia Pacific Communications Inc., on Feb. 3 features information on 366 public and private universities across Japan, including the extent to which they accept foreign students. The company says the guidebook is available in three editions for Chinese, Korean and Taiwanese students.
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Date: 1998-12-10
Title: Hagiwara wins women's 100-meter backstroke
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Tomoko Hagiwara of Japan throws up her hand in joy after winning the Asian Games women's 100-meter backstroke title in Bangkok on Dec. 9.
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Date: 1999-03-19
Title: Handmade hydropower generators working in Vietnam
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This picture, taken on March 18, shows how a remote village in Lai Chau Province in Vietnam gets electricity from handmade hydropower generators set up in a river. The river's current flows through the wooden box, rotating turbines to generate electricity that can be used in homes for lighting.
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Date: 1997-01-31
Title: "Happo-One Ridge"-Nagano Ski
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Nagano Winter Olympics -- the Happo-One Ridge. Alpine
Ski events will be held here. (January 31, 1997)
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Date: 1997-11-06
Title: Happoone-Hakubamura-Ski
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Happo-one Ski slope in Hakuba-mura, Nagano prefecture. (
November 6, 1997)
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Date: 1998-07-13
Title: Hashimoto after LDP defeat in up
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Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is sunk in thought at his Liberal Democratic Party head office in Tokyo July 13 after the party suffered a huge setback in the July 12 House of Councillors election. The LDP won only 44 of the 126 seats contested.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-07-13
Title: Hashimoto announces resignation
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Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announces in Tokyo on July 13 he will step down to take responsibility for the setback of his Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday's House of Councillors election. Speaking at a press conference, Hashimoto said, ''I conveyed my intention to resign as party president (and hence prime minister) at a meeting of party executive members.''==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-05-15
Title: Hashimoto arrives in Birmingham
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Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R), accompanied by his wife Kumiko, removes his overcoat on arrival at Birmingham, England, on May 14. Hashimoto is in the central England city to attend the annual G-8 summit scheduled for May 15-17.==Kyodo
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Date: 1997-12-17
Title: Hashimoto at emergency press m
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Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announces a 2 trillion yenincome tax cut at an emergency press conference at his official residence on Dec.17.
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Date: 1998-07-07
Title: Hashimoto casts absentee ballot
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Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto casts an absentee ballot in Tokyo July 7 for the July 12 House of Councillors election. Requirements for absentee voting were eased on June 1, allowing anyone who is busy on voting day, including those who just want to go shopping, to vote early. Previously absentee voting had been allowed only for people with ''compelling reasons,'' such as work.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-06-30
Title: Hashimoto favors public entity t
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Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (C) tells reporters at his official residence in Tokyo on June 30 that he is in favor of a scheme to establish a state-funded institution to handle the administrative duties of ''bridge banks'' that would take over the loan portfolios of troubled banks.
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Date: 1998-04-02
Title: Hashimoto leaves for London to a
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Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, along with his wife Kumiko, leaves Tokyo's Haneda airport for London on April 2 to attend the April 3-4 summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), which will also be participated in by leaders of the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, South Korea and China.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-07-30
Title: Hashimoto leaving his office
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Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, leaving his office in Tokyo on July 30, receives flowers from an office employee. Hashimoto stepped down to take responsibility for the setback of his Liberal Democratic Party in the July 12 House of Councillors election.
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