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Date: 1997-12-16
Title: "Pokemon"-TV Tokyo
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A popular TV animation ''Pocket Monster (Pokemon)''
triggers convulsions in hundreds of children throughout Japan
as a bright flashing light continued for 5 seconds on Dec. 16.
Staffs at "TV Tokyo", the station that broadcasted "Pokemon", are
busy handling inquiries.
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Date: 1998-10-06
Title: Police continue searching home in poisoning case
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Police resumed searching Oct. 6 the Wakayama home of a woman arrested Oct. 4 in an arsenic poisoning case which took place in September last year, about 10 months before the mass curry poisoning incident in July which claimed four lives. Investigators were looking for traces of arsenious acid, which they suspect was used in the September incident.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-03-18
Title: Pop singer Amuro's mother dies in Okinawa attack
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The mother of Japanese pop singer Namie Amuro dies after a suspected assault on a street in Okinawa on March 17. The photo shows Amuro (R) and her dancer husband SAM walking to the boarding gate at Tokyo's Narita airport to leave for Okinawa. Police are treating the case as a murder following witness accounts that a man beat her with a steel pipe and fled by car. Police later identified him as the victim's brother-in-law.
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Date: 1999-02-20
Title: Premier Obuchi attends town meeting in Tama
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) speaks with citizens of the city of Tama on the outskirts of Tokyo Feb. 20 at a facility set up in front of Tama Center Station. He spoke about health, education and other issues as part of his effort to hold direct dialogue with ordinary citizens.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-05
Title: Premier Obuchi meets press in city of Ise
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi meets the press Jan. 4 after visiting Ise Shine in Mie Prefecture, western Japan, to make New Year's offerings with 11 other cabinet members.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-02-15
Title: Premier Obuchi smiles with Valentine's Day chocolates
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi smiles Feb. 15 at the prime minister's official residence after receiving Valentine's Day chocolates women reporters one day late.
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Date: 1999-01-08
Title: Premier Obuchi visits school of Oriental languages
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (2nd from L) and his wife Chizuko visit a Paris school of Oriental languages in the afternoon of Jan. 7. He presented personal computers to the school. The couple arrived in Paris at night Jan. 6 on the first leg of their eight-day trip to three European countries.==Kyodo
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Date: 1999-01-08
Title: Premier Zhu meets Japanese political leader
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Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji meets senior Japanese politician Taku Yamasaki at the government house at Zhongnanhai in the center of Beijing in the afternoon of Jan. 7. Zhu expressed his hope that Japan can achieve early economic recovery, Japanese officials said. Yamasaki, a faction leader within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is on a four-day visit to China from Jan. 6.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-11-13
Title: Prime Minister Obuchi meets President Yeltsin
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi shakes hands with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin on Nov. 12 just before their talks. In the meeting, they basically agreed to start demarcation talks over Russia-held, Japan-claimed islands, as a step toward concluding a bilateral peace treaty.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-11-14
Title: Prime Minister Obuchi returns fr
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Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi returns home Nov. 14 from a three-day official visit to Russia. He was greeted by Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka (R) at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
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Date: 1998-11-17
Title: Prime Minister Obuchi welcomed in Kuala Lumpur
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Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) is welcomed by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at a hotel in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 17. Obuchi is in the Malaysian capital to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum summit.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-06-17
Title: Prince Takamado encourages Japan
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Japanese Prince Takamado, center, holding cap, encourages the Japanese World Cup squad June 16 at a practice field in the French Alps resort of Aix-les-Bains.
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Date: 1999-01-09
Title: Princess Diana memorial coin on sale in Japan
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The sale of coins commemorating Britain's late Princess Diana starts in Japan on Jan. 9. Minted by the British government, the 5 pound coin is made of nickel, features side facial profiles of Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II on alternate side. The coin comes with a holder featuring a photograph of the princess smiling. A set of the coin in the holder is priced at 3,500 yen.==Kyodo
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Date: 1998-01-29
Title: Principal explains about teacher
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-- Motohisa Shioyama (L), the principal of Kuroiso Kita Junior High School in Kuroiso, Tochigi Prefecture, explains to the press about the Jan. 28 alleged murder of a female teacher by her 13-year-old boy student. Police said the 26-year-old teacher was stabbed seven times and died of massive blood loss about one hour after being hospitalized.
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Date: 1999-02-02
Title: Pro wrestler Giant Baba dies
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Japanese pioneer professional wrestler Giant Baba died at a Tokyo hospital Jan. 31 at the age of 61. Baba, known to his fans for his trademark ''16-mon'' kick-and-chop techniques, had been a pillar in Japanese professional wrestling, wrestling well past his 60th birthday. The photo shows Baba fighting at the Nippon Budokan ring in Tokyo in September 1998.==Kyodo
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