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Date: 1999-07-26
Title: New Komeito will join coalition
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TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito party leader Takenori Kanzaki (L) greets Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi prior to their meeting at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on July 26. Kanzaki told Obuchi his party plans to join the coalition government of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Liberal Party (LP) if a policy agreement can be reached.
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Date: 1999-07-31
Title: Noda pledges gov't support for Okinawa summit
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NAHA, Japan - Home Affairs Minister Takeshi Noda (L) on July 31 pledges government support to Okinawa as the prefecture prepares to host the 2000 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) countries next July. ''I want the Home Affairs Ministry to do all it can to support the summit and the promotion of Okinawa,'' Noda told Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine during a meeting at the prefectural office.
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Date: 1999-07-08
Title: Obuchi arrives in Beijing for 3-day visit
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BEIJING, China - Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (C) arrives in Beijing on July 8 to begin a three-day visit for talks with Chinese leaders on wide-ranging issues. Photo shows Obuchi waving on the ramp at Beijing airport, flanked by his wife Chizuko and Home Affairs Miniser Takeshi Noda.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Obuchi attends funeral of slain ANA captain
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TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi joins palms together in player July 29 at a wake for Naoyuki Nagashima, the captain slain in the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet.
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Date: 1999-07-30
Title: Obuchi in 2nd year of office
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TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, marking the start of his second year in office July 30, replies to questions by reporters at his official residence.
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Date: 1999-07-26
Title: Obuchi vows efforts for world free of nuclear weapons
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TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (C) vows July 26 to make efforts toward realizing a world free of nuclear weapons. Photo shows Obuchi receiving at his office a proposal adopted July 25 by an international forum of experts on nuclear disarmament from Nobuo Matsunaga (R), former Japanese ambassador to the U.S., along with Yasushi Akashi, former U.N. undersecretary general. Matsunaga and Akashi co-chaired the Tokyo forum.
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Date: 1999-07-27
Title: Optical disk system for digital cameras devised
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OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a magneto-optical disk system 50 millimeters in diameter for digital still cameras, jointly developed by Sanyo Electric Co., Olympus Optical Co. and Hitachi Maxell Ltd. The companies said July 27 the system is the world's smallest rewritable optical disk, with a thickness of 0.6 millimeter.
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Date: 1999-07-22
Title: Pacific Teal loaded with Japan-bound nuclear fuel
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CHERBOURG, France - The 4,648-ton British cargo ship Pacific Teal is loaded with a vessel containing 32 elements of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, for delivery to a nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, at Cherbourg port in northwestern France on July 21. The ship left the port later in the day to rendezvous with its sister ship, the 5,087-ton Pacific Pintail, already carrying British-produced MOX fuel and waiting in waters off France.
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Date: 1999-07-21
Title: Pacific Teal sails into Cherbourg
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CHERBOURG, France - The Pacific Teal enters the port of Cherbourg on July 21 to pick up a shipment of 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: 1999-07-24
Title: People converge to kick off 3-day Woodstock festival
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EW YORK, United States - Some 200,000 people converge on former Griffiss Air Force Base in upstate New York to kick off the three-day ''Woodstock 1999'' celebration of music and peace, on July 23, 30 years after the original festival made musical and cultural history.
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Date: 1999-07-27
Title: Plastic-body passenger car displayed
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YOKOHAMA, Japan - A red passenger car whose body is made from plastic draws onlookers at an underground shopping mall of Yokohama Station on July 26. Bayer AG, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company, made the car in an effort to promote chemical products, saying, ''An automobile made from plastic is lighter. It means we can make a more environment-friendly car.''
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Date: 1999-07-21
Title: Police on alert against Falun Gong sect
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BEIJING, China - Police question pedestrians in Beijing on July 21 as they tightened security around the Zhongnanhai leadership compound after some 50 Hong Kong followers of the Falun Gong sect staged a silent sit-in in front of the local office of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong for the second day in a protest against a major Chinese crackdown on the semi-religious group.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Pro-independence residents rally in Aceh
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ACEH, Indonesia - Residents in an area controlled by the anti-Indonesia, pro-independence group, the Free Aceh Movement, in Aceh, a special province of Indonesia, shout out, ''Independence! Independence! Allah is the greatest.'' The photo was taken on the outskirts of Pidi. (4th of 6-photo series)
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Date: 1999-07-25
Title: Robot dogs train for int'l robot soccer meet
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TOKYO, Japan - Robot dogs train for an international robot soccer meet in Stockholm scheduled to open July 27. Two teams from Japan will participate in the third Robot World Cup (RoboCup), which will also invite seven other teams from six other countries. The RoboCup, which at its two previous meets held games only for car-type robots, created a new official event for robot dogs this year.
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Date: 1999-07-31
Title: Rock group GLAY draws record 200,000 crowd at concert
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MAKUHARI, Japan - Popular rock group GLAY attracted an audience of 200,000, a Japanese record, at its outdoor concert on a specially-built site next to Makuhari Messe, east of Tokyo, July 31. Fans also gathered in areas surrounding the concert ground near Tokyo Bay in Chiba city's Mihama Ward, Chiba Prefecture, to hear the music even though they could not see the concert itself.
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