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Date: 1999-06-12
Title: Japanese election observer team meets President Habibie
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Indonesian President B.J. Habibie greets members of the Japanese government's observer team for the Indonesian election at his presidential palace June 9. The photo shows President Habibie (L) shaking hands with the team leader, Sumio Edamura, joined by other Japanese observers.
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Date: 1999-06-23
Title: Japanese hijacker acquitted
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Yoshimi Tanaka (L), former member of the defunct Japanese extremist faction Red Army, wanted by Japan for the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea, raises his hand as he enters a courtroom in Chonburi, central Thailand, on June 23. He was acquitted of fraud conspiracy charges.
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Date: 1999-06-22
Title: Japanese jet fighters take part in 1st overseas drill
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Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) jet fighters prepare for take-off as joint exercises between Japan and the United States begin at the U.S. Anderson Air Force Base in Guam on June 22. The ASDF jets are taking part in their first overseas drills.
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Date: 1999-07-01
Title: Japanese marathon team inspects Olympic course
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Members of the Japanese national marathon team pose for photographers at the Sydney Olympic Stadium on July 1 after inspecting the marathon course for the 2000 Olympic Games.
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Date: 1999-06-18
Title: Japanese premier arrives in Cologne for G-8 summit
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (second from R) is greeted on his arrival at Cologne/Bonn Airport on June 17. He will attend a three-day summit of the Group of Eight major nations starting June 18.
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Date: 1999-06-23
Title: Japanese premier talks with 5 Nordic leaders
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (2nd from L) meets the press at a Reykjavik hotel on June 22 after his talks here earlier in the day with the prime ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The Nordic leaders supported permanent U.N. Security Council seats for Japan and Germany. Obuchi arrived in Reykjavik on the last stop of his post-Cologne summit tour.
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Date: 1999-07-07
Title: Japanese professor finds Curie's notebook has radium
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NAGOYA, Japan - This photo shows the cover of a notebook used by Polish-French chemist and physicist Marie Curie (1867-1934), in which Japanese scholar Chizuo Mori, a professor at Aichi Institute of Technology, found radium still generating radiation. The Nobel prize-winning Curie apparently used the notebook, now kept in Meisei University in Tokyo, between 1919 and 1933. The photo was provided by Mori on July 7.
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Date: 1999-07-02
Title: Japan's ibis chick named 'Yu Yu'
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Japan's first ibis bred in captivity has been named ''Yu Yu,'' which consists of two identical Chinese characters meaning ''excellent'' or ''gentle.'' Photo shows Environment Agency chief Kenji Manabe announcing the name at the agency July 2.
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Date: 1999-06-23
Title: Japan's sea eel imports peaking
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Japan's imports of sea eels or ''hamo'' in Japanese -- a special summer taste in the Kansai (western Japan) area -- are increasing toward the peak time of July's Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto. The photo shows customs officials at Osaka's Kansai International Airport checking sea eels airlifted from China and South Korea on June 23.
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Date: 1999-06-28
Title: Japan's soccer team greeted by Paraguayan dancers
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Japan's soccer team is greeted by Paraguayan dancers on their arrival at Asuncion airport June 27. The team is taking part in the Copa America tournament. Their first match, against Peru, kicks off June 29.
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Date: 1999-06-16
Title: Kim receives IOC president
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South Korean Kim Dae Jung (R) holds talks with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch (L) at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on June 16.
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Date: 1999-06-16
Title: Kosovar Albanian refugees queue up to enter Kosovo
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Kosovar Albanian refugees wait their turn at a checkpoint near Blace, Macedonia, to return to Kosovo on June 15. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, some 1,500 refugees had crossed the border to Kosovo by car on the day by noon.
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Date: 1999-07-05
Title: Kotonishiki topples Takanohana in Nagoya sumo
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NAGOYA, Japan - Rank-and-filer Kotonishiki (L) topples four-time defending champion Takanohana out of the ring at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium on July 5, the second day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. Both wrestlers have one win and one loss apiece in the 15-day event.
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Date: 1999-09-03
Title: Kyrgyz officials meet press
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kubanichbek Taabaliyev (L), director of Kyrgyzstan's state-run Kabar News Agency, Kyrgyz First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Silayev (C) and Defense Minister Esen Topoyev (R) meet the press Sept. 2 in Bishkek in relation to a group of hostages abducted by Islamic guerrillas. On Sept. 1, the guerrillas freed three police officers apparently unharmed, as a result of negotiations.
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Date: 1999-06-28
Title: Landslide buries Kiyomizu temple's tea house
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A landslide triggered by heavy rain crushes a teahouse (bottom right) at the Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto on June 27. The teahouse owner and his wife were trapped but later rescued. Heavy rains hit the Kansai (western Japan) area on the day.
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