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Date: 1999-07-25
Title: Rose connects in all-star game
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NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Bobby Rose of the Yokohama BayStars connects for a bases-loaded single in the first inning of Game Two in the Japanese baseball all-star series on July 25. Rose also doubled and homered at Koshien Stadium and tied the all-star single game record with six RBIs as the Central League forged an 8-2 lead over the Pacific League after five innings.
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Date: 1999-07-21
Title: S. Korean parties decide against constitutional change
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SEOUL, South Korea - Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil speaks at a news conference July 21 following his meeting with President Kim Dae Jung. The premier said the country's ruling coalition partners agreed not to seek a constitutional change this year to introduce a parliamentary cabinet system in place of the current presidential system.
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Date: 1999-07-26
Title: Sakura, Fujitsu to form 'Web bank' for online shopping
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TOKYO, Japan - Akishige Okada (L), president of Sakura Bank, and Naoyuki Akikusa, president of Fujitsu Ltd., shake hands in Tokyo on July 26 after announcing that the two companies will establish a ''Web bank'' for Internet shoppers to make online payments.
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Date: 1999-07-30
Title: Sanwa Bank, 5 finance firms to form marketing alliance
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TOKYO, Japan - Junji Sugiyama (2nd from L), managing director of Sanwa Bank, announces at a news conference July 30 an agreement his bank reached with five other financial firms to form an alliance focusing on retail marketing and asset management.
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Date: 1999-07-20
Title: Scantily dressed samba dancers dancing in Kobe Festival
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KOBE, Japan - A team of scantily dressed samba dancers are performing Awa Odori, a variation of Buddhist bon dance, known as ''Fool's Dance,'' in the western Japan city of Kobe, on July 20, during the annual Kobe Festival. The summer festival reaches a peak as the samba dancers are dancing along the main street.
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Date: 1999-07-08
Title: Seasonal goldfish shipments at peak
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YATOMI, Japan - Seasonal goldfish shipments reach their peak just before the end of the rainy season in Yatomi, the nation's biggest goldfish breeding site in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Photo shows a mosaic of boxes of goldfish in a pond at an auction market in Yatomi.
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Date: 1999-07-20
Title: Seibu rookie Matsuzaka picks up ninth victory
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TOKOROZAWA, Japan - Seibu Lions rookie pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka breathes a sigh of relief Tuesday in the fourth inning. Matsuzaka picked up his ninth win of the season after going the distance in Seibu's 3-2 win over Nippon Ham.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Siazon meets Ramos-Horta
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MANILA, Philippines - Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon (L) and East Timor independence leader Jose Ramos-Horta (R) shake hands prior to their talks in Manila on July 29. Siazon pledged cooperation for peaceful voting in East Timor's United Nations-administered referendum slated for Aug. 30.
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Date: 1999-07-20
Title: Slain member of UN mission remembered in Sapporo
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SAPPORO, Japan - Some 100 people gather on July 20 at a restaurant in Sapporo to remember Yutaka Akino, one of four members of the U.N. observers shot and killed a year ago in a mountainous area of the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Akino, an associate professor at Tsukuba University, was remembered by his students, researchers, Foreign Ministry staff, and family and friends in same restaurant garden where he married his wife Yoko 25 years ago.
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Date: 1999-07-28
Title: TBS reporter nabbed as Peeping Tom
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TOKYO, Japan - A 32-year-old city news reporter, Kazuhiro Takashima, for Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS), one of Japan's nationwide broadcasters, is arrested on a charge of trespassing on private property in Tokyo on July 27 after allegedly being caught filming a woman in the bath. The photo shows the TBS headquarters in downtown Tokyo.
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Date: 1999-07-08
Title: Tennis star Dokic to help Sydney Olympic ticket sales
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SYDNEY, Australia - Wimbledon tennis sensation Jelena Dokic, 16, will help the Sydney Olympic organizing committee (SOCOG) promote ticket sales. ''I really hope to represent Australia in the Olympics and would benefit from a large group of Australians in the crowd,'' she told reporters at a SOCOG press conference.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: Thai workers in wage row with German garment factory
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Thousands of Thai women workers march along heavily trafficked streets in downtown Bangkok on July 29 to support a months-long wage row with a German manufacturer, Triumph International of Thailand Ltd.
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Date: 1999-07-29
Title: The Kokubu River in western Japan floods
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KOCHI, Japan - The banks of the Kokubu River in Kochi Prefecture on the southwestern island of Shikoku overflow July 29 due to torrential rain. Heavy rain has fallen since July 25 in the Kyushu, Shikoku and Chugoku regions in western Japan and in Hokkaido, the northernmost main island. The Kochi municipal government advised some 25,000 residents living near the river to evacuate.
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Date: 1999-07-31
Title: Todaka crowned the new WBA super flyweight champion
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NAGOYA, Kyodo - Japan's Hideki Todaka is crowned the new World Boxing Association (WBA) super flyweight champion July 31 after defeating Venezuelan champion Jesus Rojas on a unanimous points decision. Todaka sent the champion to the canvas in the second round at Nagoya Sports Complex and dominated Rojas from the eighth to win 3-0 on the judges scorecards in a rematch of their March 28 fight which was stopped in the fourth after a clash of heads and declared a draw.
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Date: 1999-07-23
Title: Toshiba apologizes to customer for rude treatment
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FUKUOKA, Japan - Tetsuo Machii (R), a vice president of Toshiba Corp., apologizes July 22 to a customer (back to camera) at a hotel in Fukuoka, Kyushu, for rude remarks made by a Toshiba customer service official to the customer when he complained about a videocassette player. The disgruntled customer set up an Internet Web site to publicize how badly he had been treated. The site had been accessed more than 5.8 million times by July 19.
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