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Date: 1997-05-21
Title: Ramutara-Breeding Horse
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the famous Japanese breeding horse Ramutara. November
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Date: 1998-01-27
Title: Ranking MOF official nabbed
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Koichi Miyagawa (C), 53, chief of the financial inspectors' office at the Ministry of Finance, is escorted by Tokyo prosecutors Jan. 26 after being arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes from banks in the form of entertainment. His assistant, Toshimi Taniuchi, 48, was also arrested on the same suspicion.
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Date: 1998-12-02
Title: Real Madrid wins Toyota Cup soccer championship
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The members of the Spanish soccer team Real Madrid celebrate their win in the Toyota Cup soccer championship at Tokyo's National Stadium on Dec. 1. European Cup winner Real Madrid scored a 2-1 victory over South American champion Vasco da Gama.
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Date: 1998-06-19
Title: Red Army member appears in court
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Yoshimi Tanaka, 49, a member of Japan's Red Army guerrilla faction, answers questions from reporters during a recess of a public hearing that began at a Thai court Thursday June 18. He admitted he and eight other members of the Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to North Korea in 1970 but pleaded not guilty to charges against him for passing counterfeit U.S. banknotes in the Thai resort city of Pattaya in 1996.
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Date: 1998-12-02
Title: Rehearsal held for Bangkok Asian Games opening ceremony
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Rehearsals for the opening ceremony of the 13th Asian Games get under way at the Hua-Mark stadium in Bangkok on Dec. 1, with the official mascot Chai-Yo taking center stage. The Bangkok Games are scheduled for Dec. 6-20. Some 9,300 athletes and officials from 41 countries will participate in the games.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-07
Title: Remains of missing girl found in Ibaraki Pref
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Police officers carry out Jan. 6 the remains of a 4-year-old girl found in a mountainous area in Yasato, Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo, six days after she went missing. Police arrested Yuko Nidaira, 26, from Akeno in the same prefecture, admitted abandoning the girl, Risa, after she tried to kill both herself and her daughter.
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Date: 1998-11-28
Title: Remembering lost loved ones
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Mourners drop flowers into the sea Nov. 28 at the second government-sponsored memorial service for the more than 1,500 civilians who died when their evacuation ship sank after being torpedoed by a U.S. submarine during World War II. The ceremony was held on a ferry in the East China Sea, 10 kilometers northwest of Akuseki Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, where the Tsushima Maru sank Aug. 22, 1944.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-28
Title: Rengo cancels promised support for LP in elections
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Etsuya Washio (L), head of the 8-million-strong Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), meets Jan. 28 with Ichiro Ozawa, (R) leader of the Liberal Party, at the party's headquarters in Tokyo. Wasio told Ozawa that Rengo will scrap its promised support for the LP during the upcoming general election after the establishment of a coalition government between the LP and the Liberal Democratic Party(LDP).
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Date: 1999-06-03
Title: Researchers succeed in knotting DNA molecule
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A group of Japanese researchers have succeeded in knotting a single DNA molecule, an operation they say is the first in the world. The scientists attached beads to both ends of a molecule of DNA in lambda phage, a cell-destroying virus found in coli bacillus, and used optical tweezers to maneuver the beads to tie a knot. The photo was provided by a Keio University research group that took part in the experiment.
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Date: 1999-01-30
Title: Residents protest U.S. Marines' live-fire drill
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Some 700 people join a rally Jan. 29 at Oita port in Oita Prefecture to protest U.S. Marine live-fire drills scheduled for Feb. 4-17 in the prefecture. On the day, two freighters, loaded with weapons and vehicles, arrived at the port from Okinawa where the U.S. Marines are stationed.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-31
Title: Rice tariffication bill enacted
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Japan's Agriculture and Forestry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa bows in the House of Councillors on March 31 in appreciation of enactment of a bill to fully open the nation's rice market under a high tariff wall aimed to protect domestic rice growers.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-02
Title: Richard Seed to help open cloning clinics in Japan
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Richard Seed (L), a physicist based in Chicago, says Dec. 1 he will participate in a Japan-based project to develop genetic technology that he hopes will eventually make human cloning possible at a press meeting in a Tokyo hotel. James Ryan (R), head of a Tokyo-based company, said his company is coordinating the project.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-12-20
Title: Ritsumeikan University wins Koshien Bowl title
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Members of the Ritsumeikan Panthers celebrate their second national college championship crown in American football at the Koshien Stadium, Nishinomiya, in Hyogo Prefecture on Dec. 19. The Kyoto school defeated Tokyo's Hosei University 25-17 in the 53rd Koshien Bowl.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-18
Title: Rivals at peace in DPJ leadership race
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Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Naoto Kan (L) and challenger Shigefumi Matsuzawa (R) raise hands in a symbol of party unity Jan. 17 after delivering final pitches for votes before party faithful on the eve of the party presidential race. Kan, who is backed by the party leadership, is a shoo-in to win reelection as party president.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-05-14
Title: Robot fish unveiled
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A sea bream swimming in a water tank is not a real one but a robot developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Measuring 60 centimeters long and weighing 2.6 kilograms, it swims at a speed of 25 cm per second on a set of built-in batteries embedded inside the body. Mitsubishi says the robot, that costs ''between tens and hundreds million yen'' including a tank and remote-control device, will be made available in other fish species.==Kyodo
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