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Date: 1998-07-07
Title: NASDA monitoring world's first u
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Officials at the Tuskuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, are monitoring July 7 rendezvous-docking experiments in orbit. Two Japanese space probes, Orihime and Hikoboshi, prepared by the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) successfully docked over Mexico, marking the world's first unmanned rendezvous and docking in orbit.==Kyodo
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Date: 1997-10-03
Title: NEC, Lockheed link up for person
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The photo is automated fingerprint identification system
developed by Japan's NEC Corp. NEC reached a basic agreement to
form a partnership with Lockheed Martin Corp. in the rapidly
expanding person-identification business.
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Date: 1998-11-05
Title: Nepal asks for continued Japanese financial aid
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Nepalese Finance Minister Ram Saran Mahat (R) asks for continued Japanese financial aid in a meeting with Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Tokyo on Wednesday Nov. 4.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-11-10
Title: Neutrino test tank shown to press
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The photo shows a huge tank-shaped facility designed to detect neutrinos which physicists say pass through all substances. The test facility equipped with 680 lenses attached to the ceiling was shown to the press Monday Nov. 9 at the Education Ministry's High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-06-02
Title: New Boeing 777-300 passenger pla
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A new Boeing 777-300 passenger plane, which has the world's longest fuselage, arrives at Kansai international airport in Osaka, western Japan, on June 1 on its first flight to Japan. Cathay Pacific Airways introduced the new plane on the flights between Hong Kong and Kansai airport.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-25
Title: Merger announced to create new debt-collection body
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CKohei Nakabo (L), president of the Housing Loan Administration Corp., and Shigeru Mizuno (R), president of the Resolution and Collection Bank, shake hands Dec. 25 with Noboru Matuda (C), president of the government's Deposit Insurance Corp., after signing a contract for merger of their two organizations next April 1 to become a new government-backed debt collection body. The new corporation, aimed to facilitate clean up of the bad loans plaguing the Japanese financial system, is to be funded entirely by Deposit Insurance Corp. that bails out troubled banks.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-02-02
Title: New finance minister assumes pos
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New Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga (R) takes over duties at the Finance Ministry on Feb. 2 from Hiroshi Mitsuzuka who stepped down from the post last week to take responsibility for a bribery scandal involving two financial inspectors at the ministry.
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Date: 1996-03-04
Title: New Frontier Party-Sit-in-1
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New Frontier Party(Shinshinto) Sit-in protest -- The
opposition and citizens' groups staged rallies in the capital on
March 4, 1996, in protest against a government scheme to use 685
billion yen in taxpayers' money to help liquidate seven crippled
mortgage firms, or "jusen". The main opposition party Shinshinto (
New Frontier Party) members have picketed the lower house budget
committee since early morning to prevent the panel from voting on
the fiscal 1996 budget. (March 4, 1996)
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Date: 1996-03-04
Title: New Frontier Party-Sit-in-2
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New Frontier Party(Shinshinto) Sit-in protest -- The
opposition and citizens' groups staged rallies in the capital on
March 4, 1996, in protest against a government scheme to use 685
billion yen in taxpayers' money to help liquidate seven crippled
mortgage firms, or "jusen". The main opposition party Shinshinto (
New Frontier Party) members have picketed the lower house budget
committee since early morning to prevent the panel from voting on
the fiscal 1996 budget. (March 4, 1996)
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Date: 1996-03-04
Title: New Frontier Party-Sit-in-3
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New Frontier Party(Shinshinto) Sit-in protest -- The
opposition and citizens' groups staged rallies in the capital on
March 4, 1996, in protest against a government scheme to use 685
billion yen in taxpayers' money to help liquidate seven crippled
mortgage firms, or "jusen". The main opposition party Shinshinto (
New Frontier Party) members have picketed the lower house budget
committee since early morning to prevent the panel from voting on
the fiscal 1996 budget. (March 4, 1996)
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Date: 1998-09-03
Title: New Party Sakigake announces its virtual dissolution
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Masayoshi Takemura (C), leader of the New Party Sakigake, announces in Tokyo on Sept. 2 that the party will virtually dissolve after the current extraordinary Diet session ends Oct. 7. Three of the party's five Diet members will leave the party. The party will continue to legally exist and simply be called ''Sakigake.'' He made the announcement with Hiroyuki Sonoda (R), the party's secretary general, and Akiko Domoto, general council chairwoman.
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Date: 1998-10-20
Title: New Party Sakigake dissolved
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New Party Sakigake leader Masayoshi Takemura (standing) says a few words at an Oct. 20 ceremony to officially dissolve the opposition party he founded five years and four months ago. The former finance minister said he and House of Councillors member Tenzo Okumura will form a new party called Sakigake later in the day.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-01-08
Title: New public phone enabling e-mail
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) unveils Jan. 7 a next-generation public pay telephone machine that will enable users to send and receive e-mails and forward color images they photographed with digital cameras. NTT will set up the ''ComBase''phones across the nation starting this fall.
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Date: 1998-12-22
Title: New 'bullet' train model unveiled
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This goose bill-shaped train, unveiled in a tape-cutting ceremony at the Toyokawa factory of Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. on Dec. 22, is the latest in a series of Japan's shinkansen 'bullet' train models. The new train is to be put in service on the JR route between Tokyo and Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 13.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-06-03
Title: New hair loss treatment on market-replace
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Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. puts long-awaited new hair loss treatment on sale June 3 throughout the nation. Newly developed ''RiUP'' is similar to popular ''Rogaine'' of Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc., containing minoxidil for the first time in Japan. A 60-milliliter bottle costs 5,500.
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