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Date: 1998-12-31
Title: Obuchi, Ozawa hold coalition talks
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) and Ichiro Ozawa(R), leader of the Liberal Party, pose for photographers on Dec. 29 prior to talks on terms of their proposed coalition government.
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Date: 1998-12-19
Title: Obuchi, Ozawa hold talks on LDP-LP coalition
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and Liberal Party (LP) leader Ichiro Ozawa hold talks Dec. 19 to make final adjustments for the planned LDP-LP coalition. The photo shows Obuchi (L) and Ozawa posing for the press at the prime minister's official residence prior to their discussion which focused on the timing and scope of a cabinet reshuffle.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-20
Title: Obuchi, Ozawa shake hands after talks on coalition
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Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Keizo Obuchi (L) and Liberal Party (LP) leader Ichiro Ozawa shake hands at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on the night of Dec. 19 after talks. Obuchi said later he will launch an LDP-LP coalition government under an agreement to cut the number of cabinet ministers by two.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-05
Title: Obuchi, Shevardnadze meet in Tokyo
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze shake hands after signing a joint communique at the premier's official residence on the evening of March 4. Shevardnadze arrived in Tokyo earlier in the day on a five-day official visit. Japan offered a 670 million yen grant to Georgia to help it boost food production and proceed with economic reforms.
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Date: 1999-03-12
Title: Obuchi 19th longest serving premier in Japan
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, set to hold the premiership for the 19th longest period in Japan's postwar era, talks to members of the Cabinet Press Club at his official residence March 11. His term of office reaches 226 days March 12, equaling the span of Kijuro Shidehara, who served from October 1945 to May 1946.
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Date: 1999-04-30
Title: Obuchi addresses local groups at reception in L.A.
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi speaks at a dinner reception hosted by six local groups including, the Japan-America Society, at a hotel in Los Angeles on April 29. In the speech, Obuchi said Japan and the United States must cooperate closely, as if they are in a ''three-legged race,'' to bring peace and prosperity to the Asia-Pacific region. The visit to Los Angeles was Obuchi's first stop on his weeklong tour of the United States.
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Date: 1998-12-22
Title: Obuchi appreciates SDF's relief mission in Honduras
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) appreciates Dec. 21 for a medical and epidemic-prevention mission by Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force personnel to help the country recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Mitch. A 80-member group, headed by Yutaka Takahashi (2nd from R), returned Japan Dec. 5 after the 2-week mission.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-14
Title: Obuchi back from 3-nation Europe trip
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi alights from a plane on returning home Jan. 13 after an eight-day trip to France, Italy and Germany. Standing behind is his wife, Chizuko.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-07
Title: Obuchi en route for France, Italy, Germany
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi shows his euro-denominated traveler's check to reporters on the plane for Paris on Jan. 6, the first day of his eight-day trip to France, Italy and Germany.
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Date: 1999-03-16
Title: Obuchi greets Yemeni President
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi shake hands prior to their meeting at the latter's official residence March 15. Obuchi told Saleh Japan will help Yemen proceed with economic reforms and eliminate land mines.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-22
Title: Obuchi holds a pizza on Time magazine cover, Kan mocks
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi is shown holding a pizza on the cover of Time magazine's recent edition. The cover says, ''Once dismissed as 'cold pizza,' Japan's unlikely leader proves he can deliver.'' Naoto Kan, leader of the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan, said, ''At a glance, someone resembling Obuchi was used as a cover figure. Who believes a real premier showed up (with pizza)?''
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Date: 1999-03-29
Title: Obuchi inaugurates panel on competitiveness
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (3rd from L) inaugurates the Competitiveness Commission, a new advisory panel in charge of looking into ways to boost the nation's industrial competitiveness, at his official residence March 29.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-20
Title: Obuchi invites S. Korean premier to visit Japan
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) speaks at a banquet hosted by South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil (R) in a Seoul hotel on March 19. Obuchi invited Kim to visit Japan by the end of the year.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-07
Title: Obuchi leaves for 3-nation European trip
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and his wife Chizuko wave at Haneda Airport on the afternoon of Jan. 6 before leaving for an eight-day trip to France, Italy and Germany. Obuchi will meet with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in France, President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema in Italy, and President Roman Herzog, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in Germany. Obuchi will return home Jan. 13.
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Date: 1999-02-08
Title: Obuchi leaves for Amman
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi walks to a government aircraft to head for Amman from Haneda airport in Tokyo on early Feb. 8 morning to attend the funeral of Jordan's King Hussein, who died the previous day. Obuchi told reporters, ''I want to praise afresh his great contribution to international peace and express my deep condolences.''
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