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Date: 1999-07-19
Title: People flock to 'Summer Jumbo Lottery'
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TOKYO, Japan - People line up July 19 to buy tickets, at 300 yen each, for the annual ''Summer Jumbo Lottery'' at a booth in Nishi-Ginza, Tokyo. Sales of the tickets for the 300 million yen maximum prize will continue through Aug. 6. The drawing will be held Aug. 18.
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Date: 1999-07-17
Title: Pro-Jakarta militiamen march in E. Timor
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BALIBO, East Timor - A group of pro-Jakarta militiamen march on the annual ''Integration Day'' July 17 in Balibo, western East Timor, carrying Indonesian national flags. They oppose voter registration for an August ballot on the territory's future.
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Date: 1999-07-19
Title: S. Korean group protests against Japan's MOX shipment
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SEOUL, S. Korea - About 30 members of the Korean Federation of Environmental Movements hold a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 19 in protest against Japan's plan to ship mixed-plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel through the Korea Strait. Two ships are now at Barrow-in-Furness in northern England preparing to transport the fuel.
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Date: 1999-07-19
Title: Tokyo stocks surge
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TOKYO, Japan - The signboard at a securities company in Tokyo's Nihombashi shows the surge in prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 19, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 index closing at 18,532.58, above 18,500 for the first time in 22 months. The last time the index closed above 18,500 was Sept. 10, 1997, when it ended at 18,704.77.
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Date: 1999-07-19
Title: Trucks carry MOX to French port for shipment to Japan
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CHERBOURG, France - Photo shows a trailer truck carrying mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel July 18 with a police escort to the French port of Cherbourg, where the cargo will be shipped to Japan. Two other trailer trucks also transported MOX to the port, where the substance will be loaded on two British cargo ships to soon arrive from Barrow in northern England.
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Date: 1999-07-16
Title: Unexpected kiss makes Tiger smile
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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - Tiger Woods smiles as a woman wearing only underclothes suddenly runs up to him for a kiss when he was about to putt out at the 18th green on the first day of the British Open at Carnoustie on July 15. Woods finished the first round at a three-over par 74.
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Date: 1999-07-16
Title: Venus is brighter
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TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by a crescent, the Venus glimmers (top center) in the western sky over the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay on the evening of July 15. Shining at magnitude -4.5, the planet is the brightest it has been in the past two years.
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Date: 1999-07-15
Title: Wartime letter made public
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LOS ANGELES, United States - Banzai Derango, 74, of Oakland, Calif., holds the envelop and letter sent to a Japanese soldier by her sister-in-law in 1943. Derango has kept the unopened letter since finding it among the wreckage of a destroyed building on the Pacific island of Saipan in 1944.
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Date: 1999-07-15
Title: Wartime letter released 55 years later
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LOS ANGELES, United States - The photo shows a copy of an envelop and letter sent to a Japanese soldier during World War II, which was made public by Banzai Derango, 74, of Oakland, Calif. The December 1943 letter, sent by Tokyo resident Hinako Hiramine to her brother-in-law Choji Nakamata, then stationed in Kolonia, Pohnpei, came into possession of Derango while he was posted in the port town of Garapan on Saipan from June to July in 1944.
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Date: 1999-07-15
Title: young victims of Chernobyl accident in Japan
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ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Belarussian girls who suffer aftereffects of the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant arrive in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on July 15 for medical treatment and to take part in outdoor activities. They are three of five children, aged from 7 to 12, who were invited to Japan by a civic group promoting friendship between Japan and Belarus.
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Date: 1999-07-23
Title: 2 trucks collide on expressway
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HIKONE, Japan - Wreckage block the Meishin expressway in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, on July 23 following a traffic accident in which the drivers of two trucks were killed when their vehicles collided and caught fire. One of the trucks first collided into the backside of a trailer, then crossed the highway divider and crashed into the front of another truck.
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Date: 1999-07-30
Title: 2nd family from Kosovo arrives in Japan
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OSAKA, Japan - A family of eight ethnic Albanians from Kosovo arrives at Kansai International Airport on July 30 to stay with their relatives in Japan. As the second family of refugees from Kosovo to come to Japan, they will stay with Ramo Dellovac, 31, who lives with his Japanese wife in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. In May, five other relatives of the same man came to Japan from Kosovo. Japan allowed the second family to stay in Japan for up to 90 days under a status that allows for family visits.
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Date: 1999-07-22
Title: 5 more cracks found in Fukui reactor pipe
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FUKUI, Japan - The photos show original (above) and enlarged pictures (middle and below) of one of five cracks newly found on the inner surface of a section of pipe that leaked radioactive water July 12 at a nuclear power plant operated by Japan Atomic Power Co. in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The photos were provided by the company.
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Date: 1999-07-30
Title: 8th GSDF mission leaves for Golan Heights
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NARITA, Japan - Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) leave Narita airport July 30 to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Twenty-two GSDF members are departing this time and 21 will depart later to make up a 43-strong GSDF contingent that has been assigned to the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) for a period of six months.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Aceh independence group guerrillas march in training
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ACEH, Indonesia - Guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), an independence group fighting the Indonesian military, march during training in forests near a GAM-controlled area at Pidi in Aceh, a special province of Indonesia. The guerrillas, aged from 18 to 61, were armed U.S.-made and Russian-made automatic rifles. (3rd of 6-photo series).
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