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Date: 1999-07-16
Title: Akebono shoves out Chiyotaikai in Nagoya sumo
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NAGOYA, Japan - Yokozuna Akebono (L) shoves ozeki Chiyotaikai out of the ring at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium on July 16 as he edges another step closer to his first championship in more than two years at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. Akebono has 12 wins against one loss in the 15-day tourney, one win clear of his nearest challenger, sekiwake Dejima.
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Date: 1999-07-14
Title: Akebono takes sole lead
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NAGOYA, Japan - Yokozuna Akebono (R) defeats nemesis Takatoriki to boost his record to 10-1 on July 14, claiming sole position of the lead at the current Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament.
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Date: 1999-07-14
Title: Annual Japan-U.S. business council ends in San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Minoru Makihara (R), chairman of both the Japan-U.S. Business Council and Mitsubishi Corp., and Michael Jordan, former chairman of CBS Corp., speak to reporters in San Francisco on July 13 after the three-day annual meeting of the council.
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Date: 1999-07-19
Title: Another crack found in pipe of Tsuruga nuclear reactor
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TSURUGA, Japan - Japan Atomic Power Co. released July 19 this picture showing a 7.6-centimeter-long crack on the inner wall of a pipe removed from a Tsuruga nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The company has found a 9.9-cm-long crack on the outer surface of the pipe, from which more than 50 tons of radioactive water leaked July 12.
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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: Boom for digital cameras
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OSAKA, Japan, - Digital cameras are selling briskly in Japan, with shipments rising 7 percent to 1.18 million devices in fiscal 1998 end March 31, 1999. The cameras, which translate electrical impulses into pictures that can be seen on computers, are shown at a discount shop for electronics appliances in downtown Osaka on July 17.
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Date: 1999-07-15
Title: Boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant
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OSAKA, Japan - Ryo Sunagawa, 14, a third-year student at a junior high school in Kobe, western Japan, leaves Osaka for the United States on July 15 with his parents and doctors for a heart transplant. He will be hospitalized at a heart clinic in Texas. His parents said Ryo had a heart attack in February this year and now relies on a mechanical heart to sustain his life.
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Date: 1999-07-15
Title: Chinese president arrives in Mongolia
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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Chinese President Jiang Zemin (R), flanked by Mongolian President Natsagiin Bagabandi (L), attends a welcome ceremony upon arrival at Ulan Bator for a three-day state visit on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
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Date: 1999-07-15
Title: Cleanup work resumes at Fukui nuclear plant
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TSURUGA, Japan - Workers of Japan Atomic Power Co. resume the removal of radioactive material from the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture on July 14, after a temporary suspension in cleanup activities due to higher-than-expected contamination levels at the facility. The cleanup work is expected to finish July 15. The photo was released by the company.
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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: Commemorative train marks Tsuruga port's centennial
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TOKYO, Japan - Well-wishers see off a commemorative train leaving Tokyo's Shinagawa Station on July 17 for Tsuruga port in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The train marks a railway service linking Asia and Europe in the early 1900s and celebrate the port's centennial.
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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: Cracked reactor pipe to be cut off July 18 for inspection
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TSURUGA, Japan, - Japan Atomic Power Co. will cut off on July 18 a cracked pipe that leaked radioactive water at its Tsuruga nuclear power facility in Fukui Prefecture, about 300 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, on July 12, to investigate the cause of the leakage. Photo shows the L-shaped portion of the pipe connecting regenerated heat exchangers at a containment building housing the facility's No. 2 reactor .
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Date: 1999-07-16
Title: Daewoo plans to enter Japanese market
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TOKYO, Japan - The photo shows a 800 cc Matiz, a model Daewoo Motor Co. of South Korea plans to start marketing in Japan early next year. Sources at the automaker said July 16 the company plans to introduce the model at about 700,000 yen.
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Date: 1999-07-18
Title: Dejima holds trophy for Nagoya sumo triumph
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NAGOYA, Japan - Sekiwake Dejima holds the winner's trophy after defeating yokozuna Akebono in a championship playoff at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on July 18. The championship was the first for Dejima who will be promoted to ozeki, sumo's second highest rank, for the autumn tourney in September.
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Date: 1999-07-18
Title: Dejima shoves out Akebono for Nagoya sumo crown
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NAGOYA, Japan - Sekiwake Dejima (R) shoves out yokozuna Akebono in a championship playoff at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on July 18. Dejima and Akebono both finished the 15-day tourney with 13-2 records and squared off in a winner-take-all playoff at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: Delta airliner runs aground at Narita airport
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NARITA, Japan - A Delta Air Lines MD-11 bound for Atlanta has two flat tires shortly before takeoff and runs aground on the only runway of Narita airport July 17. The runway was temporarily closed for an emergency inspection.
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Date: 1999-07-14
Title: Ex-lawmaker Nakajima gets 2 1/2 years in prison
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TOKYO, Japan - Yojiro Nakajima (C), a former member of the House of Representatives, enters the Tokyo District Court on July 14 to hear the ruling of his trial for bribe-taking and other charges. The court sentenced Nakajima to two years and six months in prison and imposed a 10 million yen fine for receiving 5 million yen in bribes from Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. in 1996. Nakajima appealed the district court's ruling to the Tokyo High Court the same day.
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