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Date: 1998-10-15
Title: Japanese baby girl in U.S. for heart transplant
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Yoshiharu Endo (R) and her wife Yuka (L) speak to reporters in Los Angeles on Wednesday Oct. 14 while waiting for their one-year-old daughter Riho to undergo a heart transplant operation at the UCLA Medical Center. Riho, of Wakakusa, Yamanashi Prefecture, suffers from a form of myocardiopathy, a disease that effects the muscular tissue of the heart wall.
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Date: 1998-07-13
Title: Japanese drummers perform at Wor
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A Japanese taiko drummer performs at the closing ceremony of the World Cup soccer finals at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis on July 12. The 2002 World Cup will be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-08
Title: Japanese mountain bikers win gold, silver at Asiad
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Sachiko Kamakura (R) and her teammate Mami Masuda smile after winning gold and silver medals in the women's mountain bike downhill event in the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok on Dec. 7. Kamakura pedaled her way to Japan's second gold medal of the games following Naoko Takahashi's in the women's marathon Dec. 6.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-11-14
Title: Japanese Prime Minister Obuchi h
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) hosts a reception at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Moscow on Nov. 13 before leaving for home after his 3-day official visit to Russia. He invited 45 guests, including Russian Communist Party leader Gennadiy Zhuganov (5th from R) and Krasnoyarsk Gov. Aleksandr Lebed (3rd from R).
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Date: 1998-07-01
Title: Japanese singer wins Tchaikovsky
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Japanese soprano Mieko Sato beams July 1 in Moscow after winning the women's vocal division of the prestigious Tchaikovsky music contest. Sato, 32, who is currently studying in Rome. The contest is known as a gateway for young musicians.
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Date: 1998-06-12
Title: Japanese squad braces up
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Members of Japan's World Cup squad wind up their training session in the French Alps resort of Aix-les-Bains on Thursday June 11 prior to departure for Toulouse, where they are to meet Argentina in their first match of the tournament on Saturday June 13. (L-R) Masashi Nakayama, Shoji Jo, Masami Ihara and Hidetoshi Nakata.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-06-12
Title: Japanese squad braces up
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Members of Japan's World Cup squad wind up their training session in the French Alps resort of Aix-les-Bains on Thursday June 11 prior to departure for Toulouse, where they are to meet Argentina in their first match of the tournament on Sunday June 14. (L-R) Masashi Nakayama, Shoji Jo, Masami Ihara and Hidetoshi Nakata.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-07-14
Title: Japanese, Russian prime minister
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Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (R) and RussianPrime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko pose before photographers at Hashimoto's office in Tokyo on July 13 before holding talks. Kiriyenko arrived in Tokyo earlier in the day for a two-day visit.Also earlier in the day, Hashimoto announced his intention to resign to take responsibility for his Liberal Democratic Party's heavy loss in Sunday's House of Councillors election.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-13
Title: Japanese, Chinese, S. Korean environment leaders meet
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Top environment officials from Japan, China and South Korea shake hands Jan. 13 in Seoul prior to a meeting on environmental issues affecting Northeast Asia and the rest of the world. They are Xie Zhenhua (L), director of the Chinese National Environmental Protection Agency, Japanese Environment Agency Director General Kenji Manabe (C), and South Korean Environment Minister Choi Jae Wook.
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Date: 1999-02-22
Title: Japanese, Russian foreign ministers in Tokyo
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Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov (R) and Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (L) pose for photographers prior to their meeting Feb. 21 in Tokyo. Ivanov, who arrived in Tokyo Saturday night, is in Japan for a four-day visit to discuss with Japanese leaders the goals of resolving a long-standing territorial dispute in the northern Pacific and signing a peace treaty by 2000.
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Date: 1999-04-16
Title: Japanese actress performs in Broadway musical
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Japanese actress Keiko Horiuchi (R) takes the stage April 15 as the long-running Broadway musical ''Beauty and the Beast'' marked its fifth year. The 27-year-old Horiuchi, who starred in the Japanese version of the musical, sang two songs to loud applause.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-19
Title: Japanese basketball team celebrates gold medal win
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Members of the Japanese women's basketball team, who grabbed the Asian Games gold medal with a crushing 93-69 win over China, celebrate their victory at Thammasat University's main gymnasium in Bangkok on Dec. 18.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-08
Title: Japanese defense chief visits Panmunjom truce village
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Hosei Norota, director general of the Japanese Defense Agency, visits the truce village of Panmunjom on the Korean military border in the afternoon of Jan. 7. The photo shows Norota inspecting the military border zone at the House of Freedom in Panmunjom. The Japanese defense chief arrived in Seoul on Jan. 6 for a three-day visit.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-16
Title: Japanese economy slightly better
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) presides over a meeting of his economic ministers, which approved an Economic Planning Agency (EPA) monthly report on March 16. The report, while retaining a severe view overall, made a slightly upward revision in its assessment of the Japanese economy for the first time in four months.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-10
Title: Japanese firms slow in drawing up Y2K contingency plans
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi addresses a meeting April 9 of a panel of experts that is tracking how the private and public sectors are proceeding in tackling the year 2000 computer glitch. The panel heard a report that Japanese companies are making progress in fixing the Y2K bug but are slow in drawing up plans to deal with possible disruptions of their computer systems.==Kyodo
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