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Date: 1999-02-21
Title: Matsuzaka-Seibu-escape
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Seibu Lions' rookie pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka tries to
escape from his fans. (February 21, 1999)
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Date: 1999-02-14
Title: Matsuzaka-Seibu-Valentine's Day
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Seibu Lions' rookie pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka receives
a lot of chocholates for Valentine's Day from his fans. (February
14, 1999)
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Date: 1999-01-26
Title: Nagano mayor meets press
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Nagano Mayor Tasuku Tsukada, who was executive chairman of the Nagano Winter Olympics bidding committee, meets the press in Nagano, central Japan, on Jan. 25, and said his city gave favors to International Olympic Committee (IOC) members ''as part of its campaign.'' The IOC is seeking to expand its probe into alleged vote buying by Olympic candidate cities, including Nagano and other past bidders.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-06-18
Title: Mboma tackles R. Baggio in Italy
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Cameroon midfielder Patrick Mboma tackles Italian striker Roberto Baggio from behind in the 44th minute of the World Cup Group B match June 17 at Stade de la Mosson in Montpellier, France. Italy won 3-0 over Cameroon.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-02-20
Title: Medical treatment by satellite
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Doctors at Shinshu University in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture consulted Feb. 19 with their colleagues in Belarus after carrying out via satellite a transplant of peripheral blood stem cells for a five-year-old female leukemia patient in Belarus. Shinshu University has been providing medical support to the former Soviet republic since 1991 to treat victims suffering from radiation exposure stemming from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-09-17
Title: Meeting on global warming opens
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Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (C) addresses the opening of a two-day informal meeting of ministers from 22 nations and the European Union (EU) on measures to tackle global warming at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Thursday Sept. 17.
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Date: 1998-12-04
Title: Menem hold talks with Obuchi
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Argentine President Carlos Menem (R) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi at the beginning of their talks at the state guesthouse in Tokyo on Thursday Dec. 3.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-26
Title: Midfielder Motoyama named to world best 11 youth players
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Masashi Motoyama, midfielder of the Japanese national team, speaks happily to reporters at a hotel in Lagos, Nigeria, on April 25 after he was named among the best 11 players of the world youth soccer championship. Teammate Shinji Ono was also chosen. Japan lost 4-0 to Spain in the world under-20 soccer tournament final at Nigeria's National Stadium in Lagos on April 24.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-26
Title: Midfielder Shinji Ono named to youth world best 11 players
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Japan's Midfielder Shinji Ono smiles in an interview at a hotel in Lagos, Nigeria, on April 25 after he was named among the best 11 players of the world youth soccer championship. Teammate Masashi Motoyama was also chosen. Ono said, ''I don't know what to say. There must have been better players than me.'' ==Kyodo
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Date: 1997-03-19
Title: Miike Mine
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Miike Mine is going to be closed at the end of this
March 1997. The photo was taken from Kyodo News helicopter at
January 30, 1997.
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Date: 1997-05-01
Title: Miike-Cave in
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Cave-in disaster at Mitsui Miike Mine . Trying to rescue
three people who were locked inside the mine. June 9, 1992.
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Size:
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Date: 1972-10-06
Title: Minamata Disease-plant-drain
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Minamata Disease -- A disease similar to acute
anterior poliomyelitis appeared in Japan between 1953 and 1960.
Since cases centered in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture,
the illness was named Minamata disease. The blame was fixed on
organomercury compunds, which had polluted the local fish
population via the effluent waters of the acetaldehyde-
synthesizing plant of the Chisso Corporation in the city of
Minamata. ( Photo: The water gate of the drain in which Chisso
Minamata plant has used to throw its effluent waters. October 6,
1972)
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Date: 1972-10-06
Title: Minamata Disease-patient
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Minamata Disease -- A disease similar to acute
anterior poliomyelitis appeared in Japan between 1953 and 1960.
Since cases centered in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture,
the illness was named Minamata disease. The blame was fixed on
organomercury compunds, which had polluted the local fish
population via the effluent waters of the acetaldehyde-
synthesizing plant of the Chisso Corporation in the city of
Minamata. (Patient Ms. Tomoko Uemura and her mother Ryouko Uemura,
October 6, 1972)
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Size:
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Date: 1997-02-12
Title: Mitsui Miike Coal Mine-1
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Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Coal mine located on the Ariake
Sea in Kyushu, extending over parts of Fukuoka and Kumamoto
prefectures. In 1888 the government sold mines to Mitsui business
group. After World War II, the Miike mines were scene of several
large-scale labor strikes, which culminated in the Miike Strike
of 1960. (February 12, 1997)
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Date: 1997-02-13
Title: Mitsui Miike Coal Mine-2
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Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Coal mine located on the Ariake
Sea in Kyushu, extending over parts of Fukuoka and Kumamoto
prefectures. In 1888 the government sold mines to Mitsui business
group. After World War II, the Miike mines were scene of several
large-scale labor strikes, which culminated in the Miike Strike
of 1960. (February 13, 1997)
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