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Date: 1999-06-18
Title: Empress' father Shoda dies
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Empress Michiko (R), accompanied by her daughter Princess Sayako, leaves St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo on June 18 after attending her father Hidesaburo Shoda on his deathbed. Shoda, honorary chairman and adviser of Nissin Flour Milling Co., died of old age. He was 95.
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Date: 1999-06-21
Title: Empress Michiko, family attend her father's funeral
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Empress Michiko, her children and their families attend the funeral June 21 of the empress' businessman father, Hidesaburo Shoda, who died of old age at 95 on June 18. At the Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo were (from L to R on front line) the empress, Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife Crown Princess Masako, Prince Akishino (2nd son of the emperor and empress) and his wife Princess Kiko, and Princess Sayako, also known as Princess Nori (the daughter of the imperial couple).
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Date: 1999-07-03
Title: Fans attend memorial service for late actor Ishihara
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Fans of the late actor Yujiro Ishihara attend a memorial service at a temple in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on July 3. Standing before an alter set up outside a Buddhist temple, they await the start of his memorial service. More than 50,000 fans have gathered to mark the 12th anniversary of his death.
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Date: 1999-06-18
Title: Father of Empress Michiko dies
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A file photo shows Empress Michiko's father, Hidesaburo Shoda, who died at a Tokyo hospital June 18, aged 95. Shoda, who was honorary chairman and adviser of Nisshin Flour Milling Co., had been hospitalized for a year.
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Date: 1999-07-01
Title: Floating port in tow
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A giant floating steel sheet that will form part of a huge floating airport begins its journey off Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, to Tokyo Bay on July 1. Measuring about 380 meters long and 60 meters wide, the sheet was produced by Tokyo-based Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. It is the largest of six that will be put together in August in Tokyo Bay to form an experimental ''megafloat'' facility.
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Date: 1999-07-06
Title: Former LTCB chief Onogi released on bail
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TOKYO, Japan - Katsunobu Onogi, 63, former president of failed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), is released from the Tokyo detention house July 6 after the Tokyo District Court set bail of 20 million yen. Onogi, along with two other former bank executives, was indicted June 30 on charges of falsifying the bank's loan records and illegally paying dividends.
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Date: 1999-07-04
Title: Former Tokyo police chief Tsuchida dies at 77
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Former Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) chief Kuniyasu Tsuchida died of cancer of the pancreas Sunday morning at a Tokyo hospital, his family said. he was 77. During Tsuchida's more than 19 years at the MPD, many sensational crimes occurred, including the 1968 robbery of 300 million yen in Fuchu, western Tokyo, and a series of bombings of company buildings in 1974.
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Date: 1999-06-24
Title: Former Yomiuri Giants great Bessho dies
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A file photo shows former Yomiuri Giants pitcher Takehiko Bessho who died of heart failure June 24, aged 76. The photo was taken in November 1996 when Bessho appeared in an exhibition game between retired players of the Giants and the Chunichi Dragons.
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Date: 1999-06-19
Title: G-8 leaders in group photo session
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Leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) major powers are in a photo session June 19 in Cologne, Germany. From left are Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin, Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, U.S. President Bill Clinton, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, French President Jacques Chirac, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, and European Commission President Jacques Santer.
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Date: 1999-06-24
Title: Gifu Bank eyes tie-up with Tokai Bank
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Akio Yokoyama, president of the bad loan-ridden Gifu Bank, speaks on his bank's proposed tie-up with Tokai Bank at a news conference in Nagoya on June 24.
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Date: 1999-07-06
Title: Global warming threat to Great Barrier Reef
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SYDNEY, Australia - A photo released July 6 by Greenpeace shows divers checking coral bleaching at Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef. Greenpeace said in a report that global warming may cause large tracts of the reef to die from coral bleaching within 30 years.
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Date: 1999-06-11
Title: Gov't adopts measures to create 700,000 new jobs
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) presides over a cabinet session, called June 11 to adopt a package of emergency measures aimed to create more than 700,000 new jobs and revive the competitiveness of Japanese companies. Seated from left to right are Labor Minister Akira Amari, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka and Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa.
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Date: 1999-06-17
Title: GPS-assisted rice-planting robot unveiled
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The National Agriculture Research Center of the farm ministry unveils on June 16 a rice-planting robot employing the global positioning system (GPS) at its pilot farm in Ibaraki Prefecture. GPS is widely used in car navigation systems.
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Date: 1999-07-05
Title: Group departs on around-the-world trip in electric car
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TOKYO, Japan - Masaharu Fujinaka, professor of electronic engineering at Tokyo Denki University, waves to photographers as he and a group of students leave Tokyo on July 5 for an around-the-world trip in an electric-powered car. The 18,000-kilometer trip will take them to China, then Russia, western Europe, the United States and back to Japan.
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Date: 1999-07-01
Title: H.K. lawyers protest court overruling by Beijing
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More than 200 lawyers and legal academics in Hong Kong stage a silent march June 30 to show their opposition to Beijing's reinterpretation June 26 of Hong Kong's constitution, which effectively overturned a ruling of the territory's highest court.
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