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Date: 1999-02-12
Title: Japanese foreign minister meets President Kim Dae Jung
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Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (L) shakes hands with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung (R) Feb. 11 at the presidential office in Seoul, prior to 60-minute talks. The two nations agreed they and the U.S. should jointly warn North Korea not to fire another rocket, and press Pyongyang to stop the development and export of missiles.
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Date: 1999-01-29
Title: Japanese relief team to Colombia searches for (replace)
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Using high-tech equipment, members of a Japanese emergency relief team to Colombia search for missing people at an apartment site in Armenia on Jan. 28 in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake on Jan 25. The team, headed by a Foreign Ministry official, consists of firefighters, policemen and members of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, a foreign assistance body of the Foreign Ministry.
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Date: 1999-03-15
Title: Japanese singer featured in Mongolia opera-2
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Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama, dressed in Mongolian costume, performs at Mongolia's National Opera Theater in Ulan Bator on March 13 to mark the 25th anniversary of cultural exchanges between Japan and Mongolia. Okuyama, who sang in Mongolian, is the first foreign singer to perform in a Mongolian opera.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-15
Title: Japanese singer featured in Mongolia opera
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Japanese soprano Yumi Okuyama (L) takes a practice session before performing a Mongolian opera at Mongolia's National Opera Theater in Ulan Bator on March 13 to mark the 25th anniversary of cultural exchanges between Japan and Mongolia. Okuyama, who sang in Mongolian, is the first foreign singer to perform in a Mongolian opera.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-11
Title: Japanese team joins FESPIC Games
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Members of the Japanese delegation smile as they attend an opening ceremony for Asia's largest sporting event for disabled athletes in Bankgkok on Jan. 10. The 7th Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled, known as the FESPIC Games, are the first to be held in Thailand, and are being sanctioned by the International Paralympic Committee for the first time. The games will feature a total of 2,424 athletes and officials from 36 countries.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-04-27
Title: Japanese-made J-1 rockets too co
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The cost of Japanese-made J-1 rockets is much higher than that of foreign-made rockets, making them uncompetitive in the international satellite-launch market, Management and Coordination Agency officials say April 26. The photograph was taken at Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 12, 1996.
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Date: 1998-10-13
Title: Japan-EU ministerial meeting held in Tokyo
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The 8th Japan-EU ministerial meeting takes place at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Oct. 12. The EU urged Japan to quickly resolve banking and economic problems, such as the bad-loan issue and the need for early implementation of economy-stimulating steps.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-26
Title: Japan permits manufacturing, import of Viagra
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Leslie Robert Patterson, country manager of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 25 after the Tokyo-based affiliate of Pfizer Inc. of the United States obtained permission from Japan's Health and Welfare Ministry to manufacture and import the anti-impotence drug Viagra.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-01
Title: Japan's delegation for Asian Games launched
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Reika Utsugi, Chinese-born softball player, (4th from L) receives Nov. 30 the Japanese flag (3rd from L) in a ceremony bringing together the Japanese delegation for the 13th Asian Games at a Tokyo hotel. She will carry the flag at the opening ceremony of the 15-day game.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-10-28
Title: Japan's first lung transplant operation
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A medical team of Okayama University Hospital, led by Professor Nobuyoshi Shimizu (R), walks into an operating theater on Wednesday Oct. 28 for Japan's first lung transplant operation on a 24-year-old woman. In the seven-hour operation, half of the left lung of the woman's 48-year-old mother and one-third of the right lung of her 21-year-old sister will be transplanted.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-10
Title: Japan's hopes in Asian Games revived
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Midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura (C) converts a penalty in the Asian Games soccer qualifier against Kuwait at Bangkok's Rajamangala National Stadium on Dec. 9, reviving Japan's hopes of earning a quarterfinal berth.
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Date: 1998-12-14
Title: Japan's Ito posts Japan record in 100-meter semifinal
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Japan's premier sprinter Koji Ito (C) marks a new Japanese and Asian record of 10.00 seconds in the 100-meter semifinal Dec. 13 at the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok, qualifying for Dec. 14's final. Ito, who shaved 0.08 second off the national record he shared with Nobuharu Asahara, was first clocked at 9.99, but his official time was corrected to 10 seconds flat, denying him the honor of becoming the first Asian to break the magic 10-second barrier.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-06-19
Title: Japan's parliamentary session en
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Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (L) and former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, now secretary general of the Democratic Party, bow to each other, as regular Diet (parliament) session comes to a close Thursday June 18. Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka (2nd from L) accompanies Hashimoto. A Japanese prime minister customarily pays a round of courtesy calls on opposition leaders at the end of each parliamentary sitting.
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Date: 1998-07-03
Title: Japan's spacecraft to explore M
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The M-5 rocket carrying the Planet-B spacecraft, Japan's first spacecraft to explore Mars, is shown to the press at the Kagoshima Space Center in Uchinoura, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Thursday July 2. Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) plans to launch the spacecraft later in July.
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Date: 1998-12-07
Title: Japan's Takahashi celebrates first gold medal
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Japan's Naoko Takahashi, who won the first gold medal of the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok on Dec. 6, is all smiles after winning the women's marathon race. Takahashi led all the way over the 42.195-kilometer course to complete the race in 2 hours, 21 minutes, 47 seconds.==Kyodo
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