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Date: 1998-12-17
Title: Sakakibara-New Currency Reg
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Eisuke Sakakibara, Japan's vice finance minister for
international affairs, known as 'Mr. Yen' because of his clout on
currency markets, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the
Finance Ministry on Dec. 17. He said Japan will strive for an
agreement on the creation of a new currency regime among the
dollar, yen and euro.
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Date: 1996-11-25
Title: Sakakibara-Shapiro-Insurance
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Eisuke Sakakibara (Director General of International
Finance Bureau of Ministry of Finance) and Ira Shapiro from the
office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) at the US-Japan
Insurance talk. (At the Japanese Ministry of Finance on November
25, 1996 )
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Date: 1998-11-05
Title: Sammy Sosa arrives in Japan
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Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa flashes a V sign as he arrives in Narita airport Wednesday Nov. 4 with other members of the North American Major League Baseball (MLB) all-star squad to play in a seven-games series with their Japanese counterparts beginning Saturday Nov. 7.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-11-10
Title: Sammy Sosa visits children's hospital
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Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa, in Japan as a member of the Major League Baseball (MBL) All-Stars, poses for photographers with an unidentified Japanese girl during his charity visit to Fukuoka Municipal Children's Hospital on Tuesday Nov. 10. He was presented with a bouquet and a string of 66 paper-folded cranes which he wears around his neck.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-09-04
Title: Sato named ambassador to U.N.
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Yukio Sato, former ambassador to Australia, was appointed Japan's ambassador to the United Nations on Friday Sept. 4. Sato, 58, who has also served as director general of the ministry's North American Affairs Bureau and ambassador to the Netherlands, replaces Hisashi Owada, who has been U.N. envoy since March 1994.
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Date: 1998-07-27
Title: Schoolgirls weep over death of c
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Japanese schoolgirls weep July 27 over the death of their classmate Miyuki Torii, 16, a first-grade student at Kaichi high school in Wakayama, western Japan. Torii was one of four people who died after eating curry and rice contaminated with cyanide at a summer festival in Wakayama.
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Date: 1998-10-08
Title: Seibu Lions take Pacific League pennant
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Seibu Lions Manager Osamu Higashio is lifted up at Seibu Dome on Oct. 7 by cheerful Lions baseball players after the team's Pacific League pennant win over the Kintetsu Buffaloes. The Lions took the second game of a rain-soaked doubleheader 5-2 to complete their late-season charge from 10 games back and repeat as Pacific League champions.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-07-14
Title: Seiroku KAJIYAMA-LDP
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Seiroku KAJIYAMA - Former Chief of Cabinet Secretary
from ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (July 14, 1998)
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Date: 1998-03-12
Title: Senior BOJ official nabbed
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Yasuyuki Yoshizawa (C), chief of the Capital Markets Division at the Credit and Markets Management Department of the Bank of Japan,is taken to the Tokyo Detention House on March 11 after being arrested by prosecutors on suspicion of taking bribes in the form ofentertainment from major commercial banks.==Kyodo
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Date: 0000-00-00
Title: Sensoji
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Sensoji -- Also called Asakusa Kannon. Buddhist temple
in the Asakusa section of Taito Ward, Tokyo. Sensoji is the site
of many events throughout the year. It is also a popular
destination for HATSUMODE(New Year's temple visits).
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Date: 1998-11-30
Title: Seoul urges Japan-China-S. Korea cooperation
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-South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil delivers a speech in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan on Nov. 30, proposing that Japan, China and South Korea play a leading role in forming a sense of community in Asia. In the speech at Kyushu University, Kim, speaking in Japanese, said, ''Both South Korea and Japan, together with China, should be conscious of playing a leading role in uniting Asia.'' Kim made the speech after attending a ministerial meeting with Japan in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, which was held to exchange views on a range of issues.
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Date: 1998-08-03
Title: Setting sail
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The twin-hull yacht Explorer, skippered by French adventurer Bruno Peyron, set sail from Yokohama port bound for San Francisco on Aug. 2 in a bid to set a world record for the fastest crossing of the Pacific by yacht. Peyron said he hopes to complete the trip in 12-14 days, beating the 16-day record set by U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett in August 1995 with a bigger and speedier boat. The Explorer, 26 meters from bow to stern, is eight meters longer than Fossett's and has a top speed of 37 knots.
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Date: 1999-06-09
Title: Sherman tank part found at Okinawa archeological site
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Photo shows part of a Sherman tank used by the U.S. forces during World War II that has been dug up at an archeological site in Okinawa, the prefectural educational board said June 8. The turret of what appears to be an M4 Sherman was found at the Isamebaru No. 1 site in Ginowan, where the remains of early Ryukyu settlements of the 12th to 14th centuries have been excavated and examined since 1996.
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Date: 1999-02-26
Title: Shevardnadze pins hopes on closer ties with Japan
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Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, who will pay a five-day official visit to Japan starting March 4, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at his office in Tbilisi on Thursday Feb. 24. He expressed hopes that ties between the two countries will be strengthened, especially in the oil business.
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Date: 1999-02-22
Title: Shimizu wins bronze in men's 500 meters in Calgary
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Nagano Olympic gold medalist Hiroyasu Shimizu of Japan clocks a time of 35.11 seconds in the men's 500 meters to win a bronze medal in the world sprint speed skating championships in Calgary, Canada, on Feb. 21.
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