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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: Exodus of Japanese summer vacationers begins+
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OSAKA, Japan - Japanese travelers begin leaving on July 17 on summer vacation trips to overseas destinations via the Narita and Kansai international airports. Some 20,000 people are to board planes at Kansai airport's international lobby. The post popular destination among those using Kansai airport is North America, followed by South Korea and Europe.
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Date: 1999-07-16
Title: First photos taken of rare Vietnamese rhinoceros
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HANOI, Vietnam - A photo released by the World Wide Fund (WWF) shows a male Javan rhino lumbering through a swamp. WWF said the photo, taken in May, marks the first time the animal has been captured on film in Vietnam.
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Date: 1999-07-14
Title: Former sex slaves from Taiwan file suit in Japan
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TOKYO, Japan - Huang Atau (L), 76, who claims she was forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II, wipes her tears at a news conference July 14 after joining four other women from Taiwan in filing a suit with the Tokyo District Court seeking a formal apology and a total of 90 million yen in compensation.
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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: Gion Matsuri reaches high point with Yamaboko
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KYOTO, Japan - The Gion Festival, sponsored by Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, reaches a high point on July 17 with a parade of Yamaboko (mountain spear) floats. The festival dates back to 869, when 66 tall spears were erected in the Imperial Park to fight a nationwide epidemic. The photo shows the Naginataboko (halberd spear) float leading the parade, which starts from the Shijyokarasuma section of the old Japanese capital.
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Date: 1999-07-14
Title: Gold coin to be issued to celebrate emperor's enthronement
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TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows both sides of the 10,000-yen gold coin to be issued to celebrate Emperor Akihito's 10th anniversary of enthronement. One side of the coin, 20 grams in weight and 28 millimeters in diameter, is a design of a Phoenix, and the other side is a chrysanthemum, the emblem of the imperial family. Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazwa on July 13 announced details of the issuance in November. The government will issue 200,000 gold coins and 15 million 500-yen nickel coins.
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Date: 1999-07-19
Title: Greenpeace delays departure of MOX ship to Japan
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BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England - The Pacific Teal, which is to stop in northern France to pick up a cargo of mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel to transport to Japan, is forced to stay at Barrrow-in-Furness harbor July 19 due to a blockade by Greenpeace protesting against the shipment.
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Date: 1999-07-15
Title: Hakata Yamagasa reaches climax with decorative float rush
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FUKUOKA, Japan - Young men carrying a decorative float on their shoulders run at full speed in the yard of Kushida Shrine in the city of Fukuoka, Kyushu, on the morning of July 15. The bearing of the floats called ''yamagasa'' to the shrine is the climax of the 15-day Hakata Yamagasa festival.
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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: Head of Japan Atomic Power apologizes over leak
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FUKUI, Japan - Yoshihiko Sumi, president of Japan Atomic Power Co. (R), apologizes July 17 at a news conference over the July 12 leak of more than 50 tons of radioactive water at the company's Tsuruga No. 2 nuclear power in Fukui Prefecture along the Sea of Japa coast.
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Date: 1999-07-16
Title: Hiroshima Stock Exchange to close for merger with TSE
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HIROSHIMA, Japan - A file photo shows the Hiroshima Stock Exchange which, faced with dwindling trading volume, is considering closing as early as next spring and possibly merging with the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
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Date: 1999-07-16
Title: Ivory imports checked at Tokyo customs
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TOKYO, Japan - A customs official in Tokyo on July 16 examines ivory imported from Namibia. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) decided in February to approve a one-time sale of ivory to Japan from Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Ivory sales had been banned for 10 years.
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Date: 1999-07-18
Title: Kato to declare candidacy for LDP president
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TOKYO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary General Koichi Kato is expected to announce his decision to run for the ruling party's presidential race around Aug. 13, when the current Diet session adjourns. Kato, 60, who leads the LDP's No. 2 faction, made his remarks on the issue on a TV Asahi program aired in the morning of July 18 in Tokyo. The LDP presidential election is scheduled to take place in September, when the two-year term of the incumbent chief, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, 62, expires.
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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: LDP secretary general speaks on electorial system
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TOKYO, Japan - The secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suggests it may merge with the Liberal Party (LP) if Japan retains its small-constituency electoral system. ''A shift to a system of two main political parties is inevitable as long as the small electoral district system is maintained,'' Yoshiro Mori told a training session for LDP members from across Japan on July 17 at a Tokyo hotel.
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Date: 1999-07-15
Title: Lower house OK's extra budget for jobs
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TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives approves a 519.8 billion yen supplementary budget for fiscal 1999 to finance a package of measures to create more than 700,000 new jobs.
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Date: 1999-07-14
Title: Nikko, Fujitsu to form joint Web-based brokerage house
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TOKYO, Japan - Fujitsu Ltd. President Naoyuki Akikusa (L) and Nikko Securities Co. President Masashi Kaneko shake hands at a news conference July 14 after announcing an agreement to set up a joint venture that will use the Internet to offer securities products and accept trading orders. The joint company, tentatively called Internet Trading Securities, will offer the services to about 3.5 million subscribers of Fujitsu's Web access service.
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Date: 1999-07-14
Title: Northern Japan hit by flooding
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MITO, Japan - A photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter July 14 shows wide areas of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, flooded after continued torrential rain.
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