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Date: 1999-06-14
Title: Chiba sets Japanese record in women's 100-meter freestyle
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Suzu Chiba (R) hugs Ayari Aoyama, who finished 3rd, after winning the final of the women's 100-meter freestyle in a Japanese record of 54.99 seconds -- the second fastest time in the world this season -- at Tokyo's Tatsumi International Swimming Center on June 13. Chiba added the two-length title to the 200-meter gold she bagged June 11 to impress in her comeback.
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Date: 1999-06-25
Title: China shows off former nuclear device plant in Qinghai
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Hou Jianyun (second from L), head of the tourism bureau of the Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, shows foreign journalists on June 22 a former base where parts for nuclear weapons were produced until 1987.
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Date: 1999-06-25
Title: China's former nuclear device base opened to foreign press
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China has recently opened for the first time to foreign journalists its former base for producing nuclear devices. The photo, taken on June 22, shows the base in the Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, western China. The devices produced there were exploded in 16 nuclear tests conducted by China.
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Date: 1999-06-28
Title: China-Taiwan working-level meeting held in Beijing
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Jan Jih-horng (L), deputy secretary general of Taiwan's quasi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), shakes hands with Li Yafei, deputy secretary general of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), on June 28 in Beijing before discussing a planned visit to Taiwan by ARATS chief Wang Daohan.
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Date: 1999-07-04
Title: Chinese nuke reactor closed in hush
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Chinese authorities have shut down a nuclear power plant in Qinshan, Zhejiang Province since July 1998 as a result of damage caused by structural flaws, without telling the public despite a soaring concentration of radioactive material in the cooling water. File photo taken the inside the nuclear power plant in January 1995.
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Date: 1999-06-16
Title: Chinese spiritual leader cautions Beijing on crackdown
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Li Hongzhi, the spiritual leader of tens of millions of Chinese Falun Gong practitioners, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in New York. Li has challenged Beijing authorities to provoke his followers by cracking down on the movement in China.
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Date: 1999-06-18
Title: Clinton, Obuchi hold talks ahead of G-8 summit
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U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) hold talks at a Cologne hotel June 18 shortly before they and other leaders of the G-8 nations begin a three-day annual summit.
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Date: 1999-06-17
Title: Court rejects H.K. residents' claims on military yen
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A group of Hong Kong residents goes into the Tokyo District Court on June 17 holding a banner calling on the Japanese government to redeem yen notes issued by the military during Japan's World II occupation of the territory. The court turned down their lawsuit.
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Date: 1999-06-22
Title: Court tells novelist Yuu, company to stop publication
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Miri Yuu, winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1997 and a third-generation Korean resident in Japan, speaks to the press in Tokyo on June 22 after the Tokyo District Court ordered her and publishing house Shinchosha Co. to stop publication of her short novel and to pay 1.3 million yen in damages to a friend of Yuu's for violation of privacy.
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Date: 1999-06-25
Title: Cup given by prince in 1928 returned to Japan
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A silver goblet presented in 1928 to a national association of student skiers by Prince Chichibu, the deceased brother of the late Emperor Hirohito (posthumously called Emperor Showa) was returned to Japan more than 50 years after its whereabouts became unknown. George H. Lynch (L), a U.S. citizen who purchased the goblet in February at an Internet auction without knowing its origin, hands it to Tatsuji Miya (R), president of the ski association, in a ceremony at a Tokyo hotel June 25.
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Date: 1999-06-25
Title: Dancing robot unveiled
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A human-shaped robot dances by imitating the movements of a researcher of the Kawato Dynamic Brain project team in Seika, Kyoto Prefecuture, on June 24. The 185-cm-tall, 80-kg robot developed by the project team moves in response to information from a built-in camera and microphones. The team belongs to the government-affiliated Japan Science and Technology Corp.
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Date: 1999-07-05
Title: Davenport wins 1st Wimbledon women's singles title
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WIMBLEDON, Britain - Lindsay Davenport of the United States holds the winner's trophy at Wimbledon's center court on July 4 after she beat Germany's Steffi Graf 6-4, 7-5 in the women's singles final.
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Date: 1999-07-07
Title: Emperor greets Australian premier, wife
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TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R) welcomes Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his wife Janette at the Imperial Palace on July 7. Empress Michiko was absent because she is in mourning for her father Hidesaburo Shoda who died of old age June 18. The Howards arrived July 5 for a five-day official visit to Japan.
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Date: 1999-06-20
Title: Emperor pay respect to deceased empress' father.
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Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko visit Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on June 20 to pay their respects to the empress' father, Hidesaburo Shoda, ahead of a wake. The imperial couple is greeted by Iwao Shoda (R), son of the late Shoda.
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Date: 1999-06-18
Title: Empress' father dies
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This is a file photo of Empress Michiko's father, Hidesaburo Shoda, who died at a Tokyo hospital June 18. He was 95. Shoda, who was honorary chairman and adviser of Nissin Flour Milling Co., had been hospitalized for a year. Emperor Akihito and the empress visited him June 16. The photo was taken in 1981.
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