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Date: 1999-06-29
Title: Albanian family applies for refugee status in Japan
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Smajil Djakolaj (C), his wife Remzije (R) and their three children file an application on June 29 with the Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau for official refugee status in Japan. The ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo are staying with relatives in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. They arrived in Japan on May 12 on a 90-day visa.
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Date: 1999-06-25
Title: American named to Nagasaki committee for peace message
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Brendon Hanna, an American resident of Nagasaki, has been appointed to a committee tasked with drafting a peace declaration to be read on the 54th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city in August. Hanna, 34, from South Carolina, is the first foreigner to become a member of the Nagasaki municipal government's drafting committee.
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Date: 1999-06-22
Title: Annual torch relay for peace starts in Hiroshima
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The 18th annual torch relay for the abolition of nuclear weapons starts from the Peace Memorial Park in downtown Hiroshima on June 22. The relay, organized by local labor unions, will run through all 86 cities, towns and villages in Hiroshima Prefecture before returning to the park July 28.
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Date: 1999-06-29
Title: Aquino attends Sanyo shareholders meeting
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Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino addresses a general shareholders meeting of Sanyo Electric Co., held in Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture, on June 29, in which her appointment as a board member is formalized. The Japanese consumer electronics maker invited Aquino as an outside director to receive advice on operations in Asia. Sanyo has maintained ties with Aquino since its establishment of a semiconductor plant in the Philippines in 1995.
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Date: 1999-07-04
Title: Automatic beetle dispensers
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Boys checking a pair of beetles they bought from an automatic vending machine in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture that dispenses the insects, at 400 yen a pair. Developed by a local machinery maker, the automatic beetle dispenser has caught the fancy of local kids, who, the owners say, empty the stock every day. Beetles are kept as pets by children in Japan.
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Date: 1999-07-06
Title: Beer garden opens at Narita airport
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NARITA, Japan - Visitors to Narita airport enjoy themselves at a beer garden that opened July 5 at the outdoor observatory of a new complex in the airport's No. 1 passenger terminal. The beer garden with about 60 seats is open daily from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Date: 1999-06-12
Title: Belgrade citizens celebrate NATO-Yugoslav agreement
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Citizens in Belgrade celebrate June 9 the news that NATO and Yugoslavia signed an accord on the withdrawal of Serb forces from Kosovo, clearing the way for the alliance to end its military campaign.
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Date: 1999-07-03
Title: Benitez on the attack in Copa America tourney
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Striker Miguel Benitez (L) gets around Japanese defender Yutaka Akita in the first half of Paraguay's 4-0 triumph over Japan in the Copa America tournament in Asuncion on July 2.
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Date: 1999-06-21
Title: Blair greets Japanese premier
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair greets Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on June 21 at the outset of a bilateral summit in London. Obuchi is visiting Britain following a summit meeting of the Group of Eight nations in Cologne, Germany, over the weekend.
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Date: 1999-06-16
Title: BOJ chief Hayami meets press
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Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Masaru Hayami speaks at a news conference at his office June 16. He reiterated the central bank will stand firm on its policy of guiding a key short-term interest rate to effectively zero for the time being.
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Date: 1999-07-07
Title: Boy from Kosovo to receive medical treatment in Japan
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NARITA, Japan - A 3-year-old Albanian boy from Kosovo arrives in Tokyo with his parents July 7 for treatment to a malignant tumor on the retina of his right eye. Nezir Shinik left later in the day for Kanazawa University hospital where he will undergo the operation. Surgery on his eye began in Belgrade, but was suspended due to the recent bombing of Yugoslavia.
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Date: 1999-06-16
Title: Britain's C and W to take over Japan's IDC
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Stephen Pettit, director of Britain's Cable and Wireless PLC (C and W), on June 16 announces the successful closure of its takeover bid for International Digital Communications Inc. (IDC) of Japan. At a press conference in a Tokyo hotel, he said agreements with IDC shareholders gave C and W a 97.69% stake in the Japanese international telecom carrier.
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Date: 1999-06-16
Title: British trade office opens in Fukuoka
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Stephen Byers (R front), British secretary for trade and industry, officially opens a British trade promotion office in Fukuoka on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu on June 16. Office head Richard Cowin (L) watches during the opening ceremony.
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Date: 1999-06-28
Title: Bullet train stoppage caused by fallen concrete
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Photo shows a Hikari No. 351 bullet train whose roof was damaged by falling concrete June 27. The train on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line was passing through Fukuoka Tunnel in Hisayama, Fukuoka Prefecture, when the concrete damaged its pantographs, causing a temporary halt to services.
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Date: 1999-06-11
Title: Carter meets the press
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks at a news conference at Narita airport June 10 on his way home from Jakarta, where he helped monitor the Indonesian general election.
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