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Date: 1998-11-21
Title: Mitsui O.S.K., Navix agree on merger
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Masaharu Ikuta (R), president of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, and Noriaki Hori, president of Navix Line, speak at a news conference in a Tokyo hotel Nov. 20 after their companies agreed to merge next April to form one of Japan's biggest shipping firms.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-11-04
Title: Miyazaki wins fifth all-Japan kendo crown
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Kanagawa police officer Masahiro Miyazaki is all smiles after claiming an unprecedented fifth kendo national championship crown Nov. 3 with a victory over Osaka rival Yoshihisa Eto at the Nippon Budokan. Miyazaki, a holder of the seventh dan, beat sixth-dan Eto with a strike to the head to regain the title he let slip away last year.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-09-17
Title: Miyazawa Brown meet in Tokyo
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Japan's Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (L) meets British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in Tokyo on Sept. 16. Miyazawa said he agreed with Brown on the need to explore ways among the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations to stabilize global financial markets.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-04
Title: Miyazawa delivers fiscal policy speech
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Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa gives Dec. 4 a fiscal policy speech at the House of Representatives. Miyazawa outlined government's efforts to revive economy.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-10-31
Title: Miyazawa meets Ginandjar
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-- Japan's Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (L) meets Ginandjar Kartasasmita, Indonesia's coordinating minister for economy, finance and industry, in Tokyo on Oct. 30. Ginandjar said he is sure his country's economy will hit the bottom in 1999 and begin to recover in 2000 in view of the recent stability of its currency and low inflation. Ginandjar, making a two-day visit to Japan, called on Tokyo to help Indonesia improve its infrastructure under a new plan to spend 30 billion dollars to support troubled Asian economies.
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Date: 1998-09-06
Title: Miyazawa meets press
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Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa meets reporters at a San Francisco hotel Sept. 4 after holding talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Rubin urged Japan to implement a set of economic stimuli with ''a sense of urgency'' to save the global economy, now facing a systemic risk due to financial woes in Asia, Russia and Latin America.
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Date: 1998-07-31
Title: Miyazawa named finance minister
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Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa walks into the prime minister's official residence to meet the press Thursday July 30 after being named finance minister by new Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi.
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Date: 1998-11-27
Title: Miyazawa says he will resign
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (standing) and Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (R) bow to each other prior to the start of a regular cabinet meeting at the prime minister's official residence Friday Nov. 27. Miyazawa told reporters earlier he will leave the Obuchi cabinet before the end of the year.
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Date: 1998-12-16
Title: Miyazawa speaks at Foreign Correspondents' Club
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Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa speaks Dec. 15 at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. He urged the international community to explore ways to revamp the global financial system to avoid a repetition of the crises that hit Asia, Russia and Brazil over the past year.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-07-30
Title: Miyazawa to assume post of fina
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Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (C) undergoes a barrage of questions from reporters as he emerges from a lengthy meeting with Liberal Democratic Party President Keizo Obuchi on Wednesday July 29.Miyazawa agreed to assume the key post of finance minister under a new cabinet to be formed by Obuchi on July 30, LDP sources said.==Kyodo
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Date: 1997-09-11
Title: Miyazawa, Kiichi-Former PM
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Kiichi MIYAZAWA - Former Prime Minister of Japan (Nov.
1991-July 1993)
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Date: 1998-12-21
Title: Miyazawa meets press after MOF proposes FY '99 budget
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Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa holds a press conference on the morning of Dec. 21 after his ministry proposed a record 81.86 trillion yen national budget for fiscal 1999 that calls for an 11 percent rise in public works spending to lift Japan's economy out of recession.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-17
Title: Modified electric car makes 520-km Tokyo-Osaka run
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A car converted from gasoline to electric power by a Tokyo Denki University team is parked outside Osaka's Expo Memorial Park on March 16 after bettering its own distance record, traveling 520 km from Tokyo to Osaka on a single charge. The team set its previous record of 460 km last July with the same vehicle extensively modified from a 1300 cc gasoline-powered car. The group installed 26 high-performance nickel-hydrogen batteries on the car for the Osaka run.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-01-27
Title: MOF - Prosecutors raid
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Prosecutors enter the financial inspection department at
the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on Jan. 26 to investigate
allegations that two department officials accepted bribes in the
form of wining, dining and golf from several major Japanese banks.
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Date: 1998-04-28
Title: MOF bureau chief resigns
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Atsushi Nagano, chief of the Securities Bureau at the Ministry of Finance, is surrounded by reporters after turning in his resignation April 27. Nagano took the action after being punished for being excessively wined and dined by brokerage houses.
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