|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1997-05-20
Title: Okinawa-U.S. Base-Shopping Moll
|
|
Shopping moll for Americans located at Park Avenue near
Kadena U.S. Air Force base in Okinawa. March 25, 1992.
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1997-05-20
Title: Okinawa-US Base-Farmer
|
|
Farmer working beside the U.S. military base in Okinawa.
June 16, 1995.
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1997-07-15
Title: Oku, Mumeo
|
|
OKU, Mumeo (1895-1997)-Feminist and consumer activist.
Begining in 1947 she was elected to three terms in the House of
Councillors. In 1948 she founded and began her leadership of the
consumer group Shufu Rengokai.
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1998-12-20
Title: Olympic runner-up Lee takes Asian Games marathon crown
|
|
Olympic silver medalist Lee Bong Ju of South Korea pulls away from Japanese challenger Akira Manai over the final 5 kilometers on Dec. 20 to win the men's marathon, the final event of the 13th Asian Games. Lee, running a steady race in the early morning heat of Bangkok, completed the 42.195-kilometer course from Ayutthaya to the Thammasat University Stadium on the outskirts of Bangkok in an unspectacular 2 hours, 12 minutes, 32 seconds.==Kyodo
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 0000-00-00
Title: On the road again
|
|
The world's largest primary mirror for an optical-infrared telescope heads for the top of the 4,200-meter Mt. Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island on Oct. 5, continuing a trip that began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The 8.2-meter-wide, 20-centimeter-thick mirror will be installed in the ''Subaru'' telescope being built by Japan's National Astronomical Observatory.
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
1K
Date: 1997-02-28
Title: ONARUTO
|
|
ONARUTO (a.k.a. KOTETUYAMA )
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1999-01-18
Title: Online movie fans to hold festival in disused theater
|
|
Movie fans who met through a computer bulletin board are close to realizing their dream of opening a movie festival March 20-21 at an abandoned movie theater in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The 146-seat movie theater in the town of Konoura was remodeled for the festival. This photo was taken Dec. 18, 1998.
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1998-08-10
Title: Opposition demands early dissolution of lower house
|
|
nKansei Nakano (extreme R), acting leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, demands on Aug. 10 Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (2nd from R) dissolve the House of Representatives. In his speech to the lower house at the current extra Diet (parliament) session, Nakano said the current composition of the lower house, dominated by Obuchi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, fails to appropriately reflect the popular will. Obuchi launched what he called his ''economic reconstruction'' cabinet July 30, giving the Finance Ministry portfolio to former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (3rd from R).==Kyodo
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1999-03-17
Title: Oriental museum in Osaka to open new building
|
|
Prince Mikasa, an uncle of Emperor Akihito, addresses guests attending a ceremony to celebrate the opening of a new building of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka on March 16. To commemorate the opening, the museum is holding a month-long exhibition of its new collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, donated by Rhee Byung Chang, a former Korean diplomat who currently resides in Tokyo.==Kyodo
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1997-03-21
Title: Orix-Giants-Japan Series
|
|
Japan Series (1996) 5th Round-Orix vs. Giants -Motonishi
(Orix) argues against the judge. October 24, 1996.
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1997-03-21
Title: Orix-Giants-Neel-Japan Series
|
|
Japan Series (1996) 1st Round -Orix vs. Giants - Troy
Neel's (Orix) game winning hit. October 19, 1996.
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1997-03-21
Title: Orix-Ichiro-Japan Series
|
|
Japan Series (1996) 3rd Round-Orix vs. Giants - Ichiro
Suzuki (Orix) stole the base. October 22, 1996.
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1998-12-12
Title: Osaka group celebrate for Olympic bid
|
|
A private group in Osaka, western Japan, supporting the city's bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics celebrate Dec. 11 after the Japanese government formally backed Osaka's bid. The host city will be decided at an International Olympic Committee meeting in Moscow in 2001. Paris, Beijing, Seville, Toronto, Istanbul and Kuala Lumpur have also expressed a desire to host the Games.==Kyodo
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1999-05-12
Title: Osaka struggles for managing 70 bil. yen confab center
|
|
The Osaka International Convention Center, which cost 70 billion yen to build, is struggling to invite conferences after losing a bid to host the July 2000 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations to Okinawa. The Osaka prefectural government had already reduced reservation for conventions at the center between May and July next year in hopes of winning the bid for the summit venue.==Kyodo
|
|
|
|
|
Size:
0K
Date: 1999-01-30
Title: Osaka Gov. Yokoyama seeks reelection
|
|
Osaka Gov. Knock Yokoyama announces at a news conference Jan. 29 his intention to seek a second four-year term in the April 11 gubernatorial election.==Kyodo
|
|
|
