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Date: 1999-08-20
Title: 500-day countdown to 21st century celebrated in Tokyo
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TOKYO, Japan - In an event to celebrate the 500 days left before the start of the 21st century on Jan. 1, 2000, two young women from Tottori Prefecture hand out pears to bypassers on a busy street in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on Aug. 20. The event was sponsored by Tottori Prefecture, reputed for its specialty -- the ''20th Century'' pears.
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Date: 1999-08-22
Title: 5th anniversary of Kansai airport
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OSAKA, Japan - A paper ball is broken Aug. 22 at Kansai International Airport near Osaka at an opening ceremony kicking off a series of events marking the airport's fifth anniversary.
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Date: 1999-08-15
Title: 7 cabinet members visit Yasukuni Shrine
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TOKYO, Japan - Seven cabinet members visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, dedicated to Japan's war dead, on Aug. 15, on the 54th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda (R) is among the seven ministers. Before and during World War II the shrine was a bastion of government-sponsored Shintoism and a symbol of Japanese militarism.
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Date: 1999-08-02
Title: Airlines to work out common security guidelines
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TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows presidents and representatives of Japan's 11 major airlines, who on Aug. 2 are ordered by Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki to tighten security at airports and on airliners in the wake of the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways jumbo jet. The jet's captain, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old, knife-wielding hijacker.
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Date: 1999-08-11
Title: Amateur astronomer braces up for solar eclipse
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BALATONFURED, Hungary - An amateur astronomer from Japan fixes his telescope and camera on the shore of Lake Balaton on Aug. 11 in preparation for the start of this century's last solar eclipse.
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Date: 1999-08-10
Title: ANA plane with partners' logos introduced
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TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Boeing 767 of All Nippon Airways (ANA) painted with the logos of eight other airlines while the airlines' flight attendants stand in a line at Tokyo's Haneda airport Aug. 10. ANA introduced the airliner on domestic routes in commemoration of its plan to join the Star Alliance group of airlines from October.
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Date: 1999-07-09
Title: Annual 'hozuki' plant fair opens in Tokyo's Asakusa
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TOKYO, Japan - A fair at which ''hozuki,'' or Chinese lantern plants, are sold opens at Tokyo's Sensoji Temple, or more popularly known as the Asakusa Kannon Temple, on July 9. The two-day fair, which marks the coming of summer, is expected to draw some 400,000 visitors.
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Date: 1999-08-19
Title: Another body found in search for missing campers
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YAMAKITA, Japan - A search party brings to shore the body of a woman in a boat in Lake Tanzawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 19. The body was confirmed as that of Rie Matsuo, one of nine campers swept away Aug. 14 by a rain-swollen river in Kanagawa Prefecture. The lake is about 500 meters downstream from a sandbar in the Kurokura River where the nine had been camping along with 16 other people.
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Date: 1999-08-19
Title: Baobab flower in bloom
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KYOTO, Japan - A flower of the baobab tree, a tropical tree indigenous to Africa, blooms for the first time in Japan on Aug. 19 at the Kyoto prefectural botanical garden. The bloom is 15 centimeters in diameter.
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Date: 1999-08-14
Title: Beanie Babies go on sale in downtown Tokyo
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TOKYO, Japan - Beanie Babies, tiny stuffed-animal dolls with cute eyes made by U.S. toy maker Ty, are put on sale at the Sony Plaza shop in downtown Tokyo on Aug. 14. About one hundred customers, including a 77-year-old man who was first in line at 5 a.m., queued for the 11 a.m. opening of the Ginza shop. Ty Japan LLC, the Japan unit of the U.S. company, began selling some 260 varieties of 100,000 popular dolls priced at 650 yen apiece throughout the nation on the same day. One U.S. dollar is worth 120 yen.
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Date: 1999-08-11
Title: BT chief meets the press
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TOKYO, Japan - British Telecommunications PLC (BT) Chief Executive Peter Bonfield speaks at a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 11. He said BT and AT and T Corp. of the U.S. will complete a planned acquisition of a combined 30% stake in Japan Telecom Co. on Aug. 31, two months ahead of schedule.
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Date: 1999-08-12
Title: BT chief pay courtesy call on Posts Minister Noda
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TOKYO, Japan - Peter Bonfield (L), chief executive of British Telecommunications PLC (BT), shakes hands with Japanese Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda as he arrives at the posts ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 12. Bonfield was in Japan to finalize a deal to acquire a stake in Japan Telecom Co. along with AT and T Corp. of the United States.
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Date: 1999-08-14
Title: Camper rescued in Kanagawa flooding
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TSUKUI, Japan - A male camper is rescued at the Doshi River in northern Kanagawa Prefecture town of Tsukui on Aug. 14 after a dozen of campers were swept away by rain-swollen rivers. A total of 15 campers went missing in two separate incidents in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo.
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Date: 1999-08-14
Title: Camper waiting for rescue
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YAMAKITA, Japan - A camper waits for rescue Aug. 14 after heavy rain flooded the Kurokura River in Yamakita, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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Date: 1999-08-14
Title: Camper, dog rescued
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YAMAKITA, Japan - A camper and a dog are rescued Aug. 14 they were cut off from the outside in rain-flooded Kochi River in Yamakita, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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