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Date: 1999-01-07
Title: Japan, S. Korea defense leaders meet in Seoul
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Japanese Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota (L) shakes hands with South Korea's Defense Minister Cheon Yong Taek on Jan. 7 prior to their talks in Seoul. Norota arrived in the South Korean capital Jan. 6.
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Date: 1999-04-19
Title: Japan advances to semifinals in world youth soccer
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Philippe Troussier (R), Japanese national team coach for the World Under-20 Youth Soccer Championship, congratulates team members after they defeated Mexico 2-0 at a quarterfinal game in Ibadan, Nigeria, on April 18.
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Date: 1999-04-16
Title: Japan beats Portugal on penalties
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Japanese players run in joy after beating two-time winners Portugal 5-4 on penalties to reach the quarter-finals of the World Youth Cup at Bauchi, Nigeria, on April 15. The sides had ground out a 1-1 draw after extra-time.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-05-13
Title: Japan defeated 1-0 by Australia in Olympic warm-up
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Australian keeper Peter Zois punches a right-wing cross by Japanese midfielder Tomokazu Myojin in the second half of their under-22 friendly international match at the Komaba stadium in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture, on May 12. The Japan squad was defeated 1-0 by Australia in their final warm-up match before the first-round qualifiers for next year's Sydney Olympics.
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Date: 1999-04-12
Title: Japan downs England to win group in youth soccer
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Members of the Japan team celebrate after defeating England 2-0 to finish top of Group E in the World Under-20 Youth Soccer Championship in Bauchi, Nigeria, on April 11. Tatsuya Ishikawa and Shinji Ono scored for Japan. Twenty-four teams divided into six groups started the 52-game tournament April 3. The final is scheduled for April 24 in Lagos.
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Date: 1999-04-19
Title: Japan downs Mexico, advances to youth soccer semifinals
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Japan's Masashi Motoyama (R) heads the game's opening goal in the first half of play against Mexico in the quarterfinals of the World Under-20 Youth Soccer Championship in Ibadan, Nigeria, on April 18. Japan defeated Mexico 2-0 to advance to the semifinals.
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Date: 1999-04-29
Title: Japan selects Okinawa to host 2000 G-8 summit
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Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka announces on April 29 that Okinawa will be the venue of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in July 2000, which Japan is hosting. The meetings of finance and foreign ministers will be held in the cities of Fukuoka and Miyazaki in Kyushu, the top cabinet spokesman said.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-07
Title: Japan sending 1,000 tents for Kosovo refugees
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The Japanese government is sending 1,000 tents to ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing the war-torn province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia. The photo shows a worker at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, preparing tents one day before they are to be airlifted April 7.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-28
Title: Japan soccer squad gets hero's welcome
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Midfielder Shinji Ono (R), captain, and French coach Philippe Troussier (2nd from R), who led Japan's under-20 squad to win the silver medal in the world youth soccer championship in Nigeria, shake hands at a news conference called upon returning to Narita airport April 28.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-24
Title: Japan squad bracing up
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French coach Philippe Troussier peps members of Japan's Under-20 squad April 23 as they brace up for Saturday's world youth soccer championship final with Spain.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-05-02
Title: Japan to take lead in ADF replenishment
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Japan vows May 1 to ''take the lead'' in efforts to replenish the Asian Development Bank's dwindling concessional loan window -- the Asian Development Fund (ADF). ''Japan is determined to take the lead in fulfilling its obligation,'' Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa told a news conference in Manila. ''Japan is willing to shoulder a considerable portion of the projected 6.3 billion dollar ADF, which is to cover a four-year period from 2000.''==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-20
Title: Japan wins gold in 4x400m relay at Asian Games
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Japan's 4x400-meter relay team runs a textbook race in Bangkok on Dec. 19 to edge out India for the gold medal at the 13th Asian Games. The team comprises Shunji Karube (far L), Masayoshi Kan, Kenji Tabata, and Jun Osakada (far R).==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-12
Title: Japan to pay 21.5 mil. dlrs. for U.N. ambassador's residence
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The Japanese government will pay 21.5 million dollars for a New York mansion (shown) that will become the official residence of the Japanese ambassador to the United Nations. Officials of Japan's Permanent Mission to the U.N. said the contract on the house will be signed on Jan. 12. The price of the 19th century five-story mansion is the highest ever paid for a residence in New York, sources close to the deal said.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-11-04
Title: Japanese astronaut explains how Spartan was retrieved
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Japanese astronaut Takao Doi explains with the help of a TV monitor at the Johnson Space Center, Texas, on Nov. 3 how the space shuttle Discovery retrieved the Spartan satellite which observes the corona of the sun. The small satellite, released Nov. 1, succeeded in taking 500 photos which are expected to help analyze solar winds that disrupt television and radio waves on Earth.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-07-23
Title: Japanese attempts to swim to S
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Japanese attempts to swim to South Korea from Japan -- Tomoshige Hirose, a 58-year-old sporting goods store owner, begins a 70-kilometer solo swim July 22 from the island of Tsushima in Nagasaki to South Korea. Hirose, who hails from Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, left Cape Saozaki on northern part of Kami, one of the islets in Tsushima, shortly after 1 p.m. July 22 and hopes to reach South Korea's southern port city of Pusan July 24. ==Kyodo
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