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Date: 1999-07-24
Title: Matsuzaka welcomes home run by Ichiro in all-star game
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TOKOROZAWA, Japan - Rookie star pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is all smiles in the first inning, welcoming Ichiro Suzuki after a solo homer in the first game of the Japanese baseball all-star series at Seibu Dome. Suzuki's homer in the bottom of the first gave Matsuzaka and the Pacific League stars an early 1-0 lead, but the Central League came back to lead 4-2 after six innings.
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Date: 1999-07-20
Title: Medium-sized oil field found in Tibet+
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BEIJING, China - A medium-sized oil field has been found in the northern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China National Petroleum Corp. said July 20 in Beijing. The oil field lies in the Luenpola Basin 4,700 meters above sea level, with estimated oil and gas resources standing at 100 million to 150 million tons.
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Date: 1999-07-31
Title: Memorial held for town obliterated by Hiroshima bomb
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HIROSHIMA, Japan - Former residents of a town that was the hypocenter of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, hold a ceremony on July 31 to commemorate a new red granite memorial for the town, offering silent prayers and flowers for A-bomb victims.
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Date: 1999-07-24
Title: Memorial service for curry-poisoning victims
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WAKAYAMA, Japan - Relatives of victims in a 1998 curry-poisoning case in Wakayama, western Japan, offer silent prayers before a small altar during a memorial service July 24. Four people were killed and 63 others fell ill after eating arsenic-laced curry which was prepared by members of the local community and served at a summer festival on July 25, 1998. A former insurance sales woman has been indicted on murder charges in the case.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Military-guerrilla clashes create refugees
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ACEH, Indonesia - Clashes between Indonesian military and pro-independence guerrillas in East Timor have created an estimated 80,000 refugees. The old man in the photo, taken at Lamno in Aceh, fled antiguerrilla operations by the Indonesian army. The terror-stricken man said soldiers killed members of his family. (5th of 6-photo series)
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Date: 1999-07-28
Title: Mohri promises new perspective after second shuttle flight
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CAPE CANAVERAL, United Sates - Mamoru Mohri, selected to take part in the U.S. space shuttle mission in September as a mission specialist, talks to reporters at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, on July 27. Mohri became the first Japanese to participate in a U.S. space shuttle mission when he joined the crew aboard the Endeavour in September 1992. Mohri, 51, said, ''I want to take a new look at space, from my own unique perspective, and share my views with other Japanese.''
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Date: 1999-07-30
Title: More than 1,000 people attend funeral of slain ANA captain
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TOKYO, Japan - Flight attendants of All Nippon Airways (ANA) and other mourners send off a car carrying the coffin of slain ANA pilot Naoyuki Nagashima at the Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on July 30.
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Date: 1999-07-21
Title: MOX ship berthed at Cherbourg
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CHERBOURG, France - The Pacific Teal is berthed in Cherbourg on July 21, ready to be loaded with a vessel containing mixed oxide (MOX) fuel from French nuclear firm COGEMA for delivery to the Fukushima power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
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Date: 1999-07-22
Title: MOX ship sets sail for Japan
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CHERBOURG, France - Escorted by patrol vessels, the 4,648-ton British cargo ship Pacific Teal carrying a Japan-bounded shipment of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel sets sail from Cherbourg port July 21.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Nagasaki group to research Chinese forced laborers
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NAGASAKI, Japan - File photo taken July 17 shows Yasunori Takazane, professor at Nagasaki University, standing at the ruins of a coal mine on Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, where Chinese laborers were forced to work during World War II. A civic group headed by Takazane will visit China in August to interview some of those Chinese workers or their family members.
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Date: 1999-07-21
Title: Nago starts countdown to 2000 summit
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NAHA, Japan - With exactly one year until the 2000 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) major nations, the host city of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture starts counting down the remaining days July 21. Nago municipal officials unveil a 3.6-meter-tall wooden countdown board set up in a plaza at the city hall. The board bore the number 366, as next year is a leap year.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Nakabo criticizes banks at last press conference
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TOKYO, Japan - Kohei Nakabo, president of the Resolution and Collection Corp. (RCC), speaks to reporters prior to resigning on Aug. 2 at a Bank of Japan press club in Tokyo on June 29. ''Japanese bankers should behave with high moral standards since they have public responsibilities,'' he said at his last regular press conference as the head of the RCC.
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Date: 1999-07-22
Title: NEC to release optical disk recorder
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TOKYO, Japan - The photo shows a video recorder using optical disks which NEC Corp. said July 22 it will release on Sept. 21. The company says the GigaStation is the first commercially viable optical disk recorder in the world.
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Date: 1999-07-24
Title: New Komeito decides to join coalition gov't
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TOKYO, Japan - The New Komeito party formally decides on July 24 to join the Liberal Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in forming a new coalition government. The photo shows New Komeito leader Takenori Kanzaki meeting the press in Tokyo after an extraordinary party convention.
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Date: 1999-07-24
Title: New Komeito head Kanzaki addresses party congress
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TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito leader Takenori Kanzaki addresses an extraordinary party convention at Tokyo's Suginami Public Hall on July 24. The New Komeito, Japan's No. 2 opposition party, is expected to formalize a plan to join the Liberal Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in forming a new coalition government.
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