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Date: 1999-07-08
Title: Akebono maintains share of lead at Nagoya sumo
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NAGOYA, Japan - Hawaiian-born yokozuna Akebono boosts his record to a perfect 5-0 on July 8 with a routine victory over top-ranked maegashira Kotonishiki, while rival grand champions Takanohana and Musashimaru also win at the 15-day Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament.
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Date: 1999-07-23
Title: ANA jumbo jet bound for New Chitose hijacked
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TOKYO, Japan - Passengers leave a hijacked All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 23. The plane, which was hijacked while heading for New Chitose airport in Hokkaido from Tokyo, returned to Haneda at 12:14 p.m. The pilot died from injuries sustained while subduing the knife-wielding hijacker.
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Date: 1999-07-20
Title: Ancient cargo ship shows up in Osaka Bay
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OSAKA, Japan - An ancient Japanese cargo ship that has undergone restoration shows up in Osaka Bay on July 20 to begin practicing sailing. The 610-kilogram Naniwamaru, one of the higaki kaisen that transported cotton, oil, sake, vinegar and soy sauce from Osaka to Edo, now known as Tokyo, is seen for the first time in more than 100 years.
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Date: 1999-07-20
Title: Antinuclear groups protest MOX shipments+
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TOKYO, Japan - About 30 people belonging to four citizens groups protesting the use of nuclear power march through Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on July 20, carrying banners with messages opposing mixed oxide (MOX) fuel shipments to Japan and handing out leaflets to passersby. Two ships carrying MOX fuel, a mixture of uranium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuel, leave an English port on July 19 bound for the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture and the Fukushima plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
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Date: 1999-07-24
Title: Award winners at Japanese baseball all-star game
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TOKOROZAWA, Japan - Award winners from Game One of the Japanese baseball all-star series are from left to right, Koji Uehara, Takanori Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka. Matsui, who led the Central League to an 8-4 win over the Pacific League, received the most valuable player award.
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Date: 1999-07-26
Title: BayStars' Rose gets MVP in all-star baseball game
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KOSHIEN, Japan - Bobby Rose of the Yokohama BayStars is interviewed on the winners' platform along with his son Cody after tying an all-star single game record with six RBIs on July 25. Rose's efforts sparked the Central League to a 9-5 romp over the Pacific League in Game Two of the Japanese baseball all-star series, held at the Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, and earned him the game's award for most valuable player (MVP).
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Date: 1999-07-25
Title: Beach crowded by a number of sea bathers, swimmers
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FUJISAWA, Japan - The photo, taken from a Kyodo News helicopter July 25, showing Katase Beach in the city of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, just south of Tokyo, crowded by a number of sea bathers and swimmers. The mercury shot up as the Japanese archipelago, where the rainy season is over except in the far northeast, was enveloped by a high pressure system in the Pacific.
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Date: 1999-07-24
Title: Body of slain ANA pilot returns home
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YOKOHAMA, Japan - The body of an All Nippon Airways (ANA) pilot who was killed by a hijacker July 23 returns to his home in Umegaoka, Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, on July 24 after undergoing an autopsy. The 51-year-old pilot, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old man who hijacked the ANA jumbo jet bound for Sapporo from Tokyo's Haneda airport.
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Date: 1999-07-26
Title: BOJ to keep easy monetary policy for now, Hayami says
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TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Masaru Hayami (C) reiterates July 26 that the central bank will stick to its policy of guiding the key short-term interest rate to nearly zero until fear of deflation disappears. Hayami spoke in his opening address to a quarterly meeting of BOJ branch managers, held at the BOJ head office.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Boys join ranks of Aceh independence fighters
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ACEH, Indonesia - A young boy takes aim with a rifle while training in an area controlled by the Free Aceh Movement, an anti-Indonesia, pro-independence group fighting the Indonesian military in Aceh, a special province of Indonesia on the northwestern tip of Sumatra. The photo was taken by Koji Harada of Kyodo News, who recently became the first Japanese photo journalist to visit the area since tensions there intensified. (1st of the 6-photo series)
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Date: 1999-07-20
Title: British ship heads for France to load cargo of nuclear fuel
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BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England - The British ship Pacific Teal heads out to sea July 19 en route to Japan. The Pacific Teal is headed for Cherbourg, France, to load its cargo of nuclear fuel.
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Date: 1999-07-20
Title: British ship with nuclear fuel heads out to sea
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BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England - The British ship Pacific Pintail with a shipment of nuclear fuel heads out to sea July 19 en route to Japan. The Pacific Pintail is loaded with its nuclear fuel before leaving Barrow-in-Furness on the northwest English coast.
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Date: 1999-07-28
Title: Broadcaster of Chinese wartime propaganda found
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SHENYANG, China - Kiyoko Hara, a Japanese female announcer who called on the Imperial Japanese Army to surrender in Chinese Communist Party radio broadcasts during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War, has been found to be still living in Shenyang 54 years after the war. In a recent interview with Kyodo News, Hara, 86, revealed for the first time that she cooperated with the Chinese communists in broadcasting their propaganda to the Japanese army during the war.
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Date: 1999-07-28
Title: Cardinal Sin calls for end to violence in E. Timor
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MANILA, Philippines - Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin (R) shakes hands with visiting East Timorese resistance leader Jose Ramos-Horta prior to their meeting in Manila on July 28. Sin urged an end to the violence in East Timor and said he is praying for the freedom of the territory's people.
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Date: 1999-07-28
Title: Children plant rice on roof of Tokyo department store
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TOKYO, Japan - Schoolchildren enjoy rice planting on the roof of a Tokyo department store July 27. A rice paddy promotion group made the 8-meter-long, 5-meter-wide paddy to allow people to experience rice planting in downtown Tokyo.
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