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Date: 1998-03-31
Title: Overworking-Karoshi-teacher
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Ms. Satomi OKABAYASHI- She claimed that her husband, a
former school teacher, died due to overworking. The court
rejected her appeal. (March 31, 1998)
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Date: 1998-02-23
Title: Overworking-Okayama Court
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The Okayama District Court ordered Kawasaki Steel Corp.
on Monday to pay 52 million yen in damages to the bereaved family
of an employee who they say killed himself due to overworking.
Presiding Judge Takeo Hamamoto at the court's Kurashiki branch
accepted the plaintiffs' claim that Junichi Watanabe, then 41,
employee at Kawasaki Steel's Mizushima ironworks, suffered
depression and committed suicide June 20, 1991, after long work
hours. (Ms. Watanabe, the wife of the victim is entering the
Okayama District Court on February 23, 1998 )
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Date: 1998-12-09
Title: Ozawa urges 'radical' steps to revive economy
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Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa calls Dec. 8 for the government to take more radical steps to revive the flagging economy at an early date in a speech at Waseda University.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-19
Title: Ozawa honors late Korean independent activist
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Ichiro Ozawa (R), leader of Japan's Liberal Party, junior partner of Japan's ruling coalition, offers flowers before the altar of the late Korean hero Kim Ku in Seoul on July 18. Kim was an independent activist who fought against Japanese colonization of Korea.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-01
Title: Ozawa meets Communist Party senior member in China
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Ichiro Ozawa (L in chair), leader of Japan's Liberal Party, has talks with Wei Jianxing (R), a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo, in Beijing on Feb. 28. In the meeting at the Great Hall of the People, Wei told Ozawa that bills to update Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines should not cover Taiwan and China.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-02-12
Title: Ozeki Chiyotaikai given hero's welcome at hometown
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Ozeki Chiyotaikai (L) was honored in a parade Feb. 11 in his hometown of Oita in Japan's southern mainland of Kyushu for the first time since being promoted to Sumo's second highest ranking. About 150,000 citizens turned out for Chiyotaikai's triumphant return.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-05-06
Title: Pak Se Ri-Golfer
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South Korea's Pak Se Ri , last year's rookie sensation
on the U.S. LPGA Tour, shoots a 2-under 70 in her first
appearance on the Japanese circuit to place second after Japan's
Midori Yoneyama at the end of the first round of the Gunze Cup
World Ladies golf tournament May 6 . At right is her playing
partner Michiko Hattori, last year's leading Japan LPGA money
winner.
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Date: 1999-05-07
Title: Pak debuts in Japanese circuit
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South Korea's Pak Se Ri (L), last year's rookie sensation on the U.S. LPGA Tour, shoots a 2-under 70 in her first appearance on the Japanese circuit to place second after Japan's Midori Yoneyama at the end of the first round of the Gunze Cup World Ladies golf tournament May 6 . At right is her playing partner Michiko Hattori, last year's leading Japan LPGA money winner.
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Date: 1999-05-10
Title: Panda at Ueno Zoo artificially inseminated
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The picture shows Tong Tong (R), a 12-year-old female giant panda who was artificially inseminated at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on May 9 using sperm extracted from Ling Ling (L), a 13-year-old male. The photo was taken April 26.
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Date: 1999-01-07
Title: Panel rejects 'domino' liver transplant request
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Taihei Miyakawa (R), chairman of Kumamoto Univ. medical ethics committee, says Jan. 6 at a press conference that it turned down a request by a team of university doctors to perform a so-called ''domino'' liver transplant procedure.
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Date: 1997-06-02
Title: Parents escort schoolchildren
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Escorted by parents, schoolchildren at Tainohata
Elementary School in the western Japan city of Kobe, walk to
school after the severed head of a missing 11-year-old boy was
found, on May 27, placed vertically in front of the school's main
gate with two hand-written notes in the mouth. (June 2, 1997) (
Later, it was found out that the killer was a 14-year old junior
high school student .)
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Date: 1999-01-19
Title: Parliamentarians in kimono
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Clad in traditional kimono, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda (R) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary General Yoshiro Mori pose for photographers prior to the opening of the ordinary Diet (parliament) session Jan. 19. Few Japanese wear kimono in attending routine business these days.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-10-14
Title: Patterson meets Obuchi
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Jamaican Prime Minister Percival Patterson (L) and Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) toast to each other following their talks at the prime minister's official residence Tuesday Oct. 13. At center is Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-11
Title: Perry, Obuchi agree on comprehensive approach on N. Korea
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U.S. policy coordinator for North Korea William Perry (C) reads a statement after his talks with Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and other Japanese officials in Tokyo on March 10. ''I found that they have similar assessment of the situation and of the need to stand shoulder-to-shoulder, as we devise a comprehensive approach to the threats posed by North Korea,'' Perry said.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-11
Title: Perry meets with Obuchi
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U.S. policy coordinator for North Korea William Perry (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi shake hands prior to their meeting in the Diet building March 10.==Kyodo
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