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Date: 1999-02-16
Title: Probe into dioxin pollution begins
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Environment experts from government agencies pick spinach on a farm in Tokorozawa, north of Tokyo, on Tuesday Feb. 16 for a new study on dioxin levels of vegetables in the area. Dioxin pollution has been in the spotlight following a recent TV news report that high concentrations of the cancer-causing substance were detected in vegetables grown there.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-30
Title: Professors protest against U.S.-Japan defense guidelines
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Holding placards and banners, some 100 college professors from around the country stage a protest march in front of the Diet on March 29 calling for an abolition of the new U.S.-Japan defense cooperation guidelines bills currently being discussed in the House of Representatives. They are seeking to collect 3,000 signatures from academics to support their campaign.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-01-27
Title: Prosecutors raid MOF
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Prosecutors enter the financial inspection department at the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on Jan. 26 to investigate allegations that two department officials accepted bribes in the form of wining, dining and golf from several major Japanese banks.
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Date: 1998-06-25
Title: Protest ships from H.K., Taiwan
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A ship (2nd from L) from Hong Kong and five other ships from Hong Kong and Taiwan move closer to the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on June 24. The photo, taken from a Kyodo News helicopter about 27 kilometers south-southwest of the islands, shows four Japanese Maritime Safety Agency patrol boats surrounding the Hong Kong vessel. The uninhabited islands are claimed by Japan, Taiwan and China. They are known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and as the Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-06-06
Title: Protest against alien registration cards
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Chong A Yong (right), a permanent Korean resident in Japan, mails his alien registration card to Japan's Justice Minister Takao Jinnouchi at Osaka Central Post Office on June 5 in protest against a Japanese law that requires foreign residents to carry their alien cards all the time. The placard behind Chong reads ''No to alien registration card.'' The card-carrying requirement will remain intact even though the government plans to decriminalize the punishment against violators.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-01
Title: Protesters march in Japan for nuclear abolition
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Holding a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, who died of irradiation after a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954, a woman and fellow antinuclear group members march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Kuboyama was one of the crew members of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, that was exposed to radioactive fallout near the Bikini Atoll on the same day 45 years ago.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-02-01
Title: 10,300 protest U.S. live-fire drills in Oita
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An estimated 10,300 people on Jan. 31 protest against the scheduled Feb. 7-17 U.S. live-shell firing drills at the Hijudai artillery range in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The riverside protest rally was held in the town of Kusu. Among the organizers was the Oita arm of the eight-million-strong Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo).==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-07-06
Title: Public hearing on flag-anthem bill held in Okinawa
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NAHA, Japan - The House of Representatives Cabinet Committee holds a public hearing July 6 in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on a bill to legally recognize the Hinomaru (rising sun) and ''Kimigayo'' (his majesty's reign) as Japan's national flag and anthem. Okinawa was the center of intense fighting during World War II. The question of whether to recognize the flag and the song as national symbols is sensitive because of the close association of them with Japan's imperial system and past militarism.
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Date: 1999-05-13
Title: Quad trade ministers end meeting in Tokyo
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The quadrilateral trade ministers' meeting ends at a Tokyo hotel May 12. The photo shows the ministers -- (from L to R) European Commission Vice President Leon Brittan, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Kaoru Yosano and Canadian International Trade Minister Sergio Marchi -- moving to a press conference room after the two-day meeting.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-05-12
Title: Quad trade ministers in session
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Trade ministers from Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States begin substantive discussions in Tokyo on May 12. Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Kaoru Yosano, who chairs the meeting, is seated 3rd from right in front row.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-05-12
Title: Quad trade ministers pose for camera
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Trade ministers from Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States pose for photographers prior to their meeting May 12. (From L to R) Canada's International Trade Minister Sergio Marchi, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Kaoru Yosano, and European Commission Vice President Leon Brittan.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-04-21
Title: Racketeer Koike sentenced to 9 months in payoff scandal
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Ryuichi Koike, ''sokaiya'' corporate racketeer, enters the Tokyo District Court on April 21 to receive a ruling on a charge that he received illegally 12.4 billion yen in payoffs from four securities firms and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. The court sentenced Koike to nine months in prison later in the day.
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Date: 1997-01-17
Title: "Rainbow Town" - Tokyo Bay
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"Rainbow Town" - the new bayside business town near the
Tokyo Bay January 17, 1997 Tokyo, Japan)
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Date: 1999-04-28
Title: Rallies held to protest defense guidelines bills
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Protesters march down the street April 27 in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki area, where many government offices are located, calling for abolition of the new Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines bills the lower house passed on the day. Many other citizens' groups held protest meetings and rallies near the Diet.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-10-12
Title: Rally held to oppose expansion of Narita airport
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Some 1,500 protesters gather in Narita on Oct. 11 to oppose the expansion of Narita airport, demanding the government scrap a plan to complete a second runway by the end of fiscal 2000. Koji Kitahara, the organizer of the rally, said, ''The government is poised to start construction on the runway by the end of the fall. We will make every effort to stop it.'' The government proposes constructing a 2,500-meter runway, which would parallel the existing 4,000-meter runway, at Japan's main international airport east of Tokyo.
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