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Explore Asia exhibition opens in U.S. Texas

STORY: Explore Asia exhibition opens in U.S. Texas DATELINE: July 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:13 LOCATION: HOUSTON, U.S. CATEGORY: CULTURE/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibition STORYLINE: Explore Asia, an immersive exhibition highlighting vibrant culture of five Asian countries including China, India, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, opens in Houston, Texas, the United States. Asia Society Texas held a grand opening of the new 4.6-million-U.S.-dollar permanent exhibition on July 21-23. The exhibition is the only interactive learning exhibition in Texas focused specifically on Asia, according to a news release from the organization. Through an immersive journey to China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam, visitors of all ages can magically travel through time and space on a virtual bullet train, learn about delicious meals and treats (and where to find them in Houston) and more. Houston is one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the U.S. The exhibition is designed to spark curiosity and hi

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Clinton's gifts handed to Okinawa students

NAHA, Japan - Yukino Matsuda (L), 16, and Takashi Toma, 17, of Urasoe Senior High School in Okinawa, show their gifts from U.S. President Bill Clinton. The gifts were handed to them July 82 by a prefectural government official who said the president appreciated the yougsters in Okinawa for welcoming him in the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit.

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Okinawa summit to open July 21

NAGO, Japan - Photo, taken at 7:15 p.m. on July 20, shows the Bankoku Shinryokan, a newly built conference center in the city of Nago, northern Okinawa, where leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations will hold their 26th annual summit July 21-23.

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Police on alert ahead of Okinawa summit

NAGO, Japan - Police officers, dispatched from the Metropolitan Police Department to help local police, patrol aboard a watercraft near the Manza Beach Hotel in the village of Onna, Okinawa Prefecture, on July 16 ahead of the July 21-23 summit of Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations.

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Naha citizens clean street along Shuri Castle Park

NAHA, Japan - Residents of Naha, capital of Okinawa, clean a street along Shuri Castle on July 16 ahead of a summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations to be held in this southernmost island prefecture on July 21-23.

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G-8 foreign ministers get down to work

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Group of Eight (G-8) foreign ministers kick off their two-day meeting at the Seagaia seaside resort complex in the southwestern Japanese city of Miyazaki on July 12 to set the stage for the July 21-23 summit of their leaders in Okinawa Prefecture.

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G-8 foreign ministers kick off Miyazaki meeting

MIYAZAKI, Japan - The foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G-8) countries plus a representative each from the European Union and European Commission pose in front of the Seagaia resort complex in Miyazaki on July 12, at the start of their two-day meeting in the city in southwestern Japan. Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono is fifth from R. The meeting will set the stage for the July 21-23 summit of their leaders in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Fireworks show welcomes G-8 foreign ministers meeting

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A display of fireworks in the Matsuyama district of Miyazaki on July 11 takes place on the eve of the start of a meeting of foreign ministers of Group of Eight (G-8) countries. The two-day meeting gets under way in the city the next day, to be followed by a G-8 summit in Okinawa Prefecture on July 21-23.

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Kono arrives in Miyazaki for G-8 meeting

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono arrives in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, to attend the two-day meeting of the Group of Eight (G-8) foreign ministers. The July 12-13 meeting at the Seagaia seaside resort complex will be followed by the July 21-23 G-8 summit in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Miyazaki's G-8 press center opens

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Staff of the press center at the venue for the meeting of Group of Eight (G-8) foreign ministers in Miyazaki Prefecture begin work July 11, the center's first day of operation. The two-day meeting gets under way the following day, to be followed by a summit of G-8 leaders in Okinawa Prefecture on July 21-23.

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Police stop cars near site of G-8 foreign ministers' meet

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Police stop cars and check the drivers' documents July 10 near the Seagaia seaside resort complex in Miyazaki where foreign ministers from the Group of Eight (G-8) countries will hold two days of talks July 12 and 13. The G-8 ministers will discuss political and security issues to set the stage for the July 21-23 summit of their leaders in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Japan, U.S. resume NTT interconnection fee talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and U.S. officials on July 10 resume talks in Tokyo on telecommunications deregulation in a bid to resolve their longstanding dispute over Japan's telephone interconnection rates before the July 21-23 Group of Eight summit in Okinawa Prefecture. The two countries are at odds over how to reduce the hookup fees that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. charges its competitors for use of its local networks. The previous round of talks was held in March.

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Over 700 police stage VIP motorcade drill for G-8 summit

NAHA, Japan - More than 700 police officers staged a VIP motorcade escort drill in Naha on July 9 in preparation for the July 21-23 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) major powers in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. Each motorcade involved 12 to 14 police vehicles. Police motorcycles led the way and traffic signals along the road were adjusted for the drill. The motorcades left the airport at three-minute intervals and the first arrived at the Bankoku-shinryo Kan just before 8 a.m.

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High school students from G-8 start youth summit in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Thirty high school students from the Group of Eight (G-8) major nations start a two-day ''Youth Summit'' June 24 at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan, central Okinawa. They are discussing such issues as peace, the environment and the economy ahead of the July 21-23 summit of G-8 leaders in Nago, northern Okinawa.

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Okinawans stage 'peace walk' around U.S. Kadena air base

NAHA, Japan - About 100 Okinawa residents join a ''Peace Walk'' around the U.S. Air Force Kadena Air Base in central Okinawa on June 18. The event was held ahead of the July 21-23 Group of Eight summit in the northern Okinawan city of Nago. Kadena is the largest U.S. military base in the Far East.

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Naha airport completes preparations for G-8 summit

NAHA, Japan - Naha airport prepares to welcome top officials of the Group of Eight countries at the Okinawa summit by displaying the flags of the participating nations on June 19, one month before the July 21-23 conference starts.

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Mori talks with Mahathir

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad hold talks at a Tokyo hotel June 8. Mahathir asked Mori to study how to narrow the digital divide in his discussions with other leaders of the Group of Eight nations during their July 21-23 summit in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Mori eyes G-8 aid package on IT at Okinawa summit

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (standing at C) addresses a meeting at his official residence June 5 of private-sector advisers offering the government their views on the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa. Mori said he plans to assemble a ''comprehensive aid package'' to help developing countries deal with advancing information technology (IT) when he hosts the summit.

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Mori, Kim hold talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) shakes hands with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on May 29 prior to their talks on North Korea and the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.

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Mori arrives in Seoul for talks with Kim

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) is greeted by South Korean officials upon his arrival in Seoul on May 29 for talks on North Korea with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. Mori will also hear Seoul's views on the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.

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Obuchi's first press call of 2000 at official residence

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, in a file photo, is shown attending this year's first press conference at his official residence. Obuchi, who died May 14, was announcing the logo for the Group of Eight summit scheduled for July 21-23 in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Mori arrives in Okinawa to view G-8 summit venue

NAHA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) arrives in Okinawa Prefecture on May 14 to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the main venue of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in July. Mori will attend the ceremony for the Bankoku Shinryokan in the northern Okinawa city of Nago, the main venue for the July 21-23 summit. He will also inspect Shuri Castle, where press conferences and a dinner for G-8 leaders will be held, among other places.

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Printing of 2,000 yen bills begins

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Finance Ministry on May 8 begins printing 2,000 yen banknotes at its Takinogawa plant in Tokyo's Kita Ward. The new bills, issued to commemorate the summit of the Group of Eight nations in Okinawa Prefecture on July 21-23, feature an illustration of the Shureimon Gate in Naha, considered a symbol of the prefecture. The bills will be put into circulation July 19.

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Okinawa starts 100-day countdown to G-8 summit

NAHA, Japan - An Okinawa prefectural government official, assisted by local nursery school children, unveiles a 7.2-meter-tall wooden countdown board reading ''100 days to go before the summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations'' in Okinawa scheduled for July 21-23.

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Summit-bound police receive lecture on Okinawa snakes

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Police officers receive instructions Aug. 10 on poisonous snakes peculiar to Okinawa Prefecture as they have to enhance security at the 2000 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in the Japan's southernmost island prefecture. About 150 officers were lectured by experts at the Okinawa police riot squad training center in Gushikawa in the prefecture, as part of preparations for the summit scheduled for July 21-23 next year.

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Mori eyes G-8 aid package on IT at Okinawa summit

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (standing at C) addresses a meeting at his official residence June 5 of private-sector advisers offering the government their views on the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa. Mori said he plans to assemble a ''comprehensive aid package'' to help developing countries deal with advancing information technology (IT) when he hosts the summit.

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Mori, Kim hold talks in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) shakes hands with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on May 29 prior to their talks on North Korea and the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.

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Mori arrives in Seoul for talks with Kim

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) is greeted by South Korean officials upon his arrival in Seoul on May 29 for talks on North Korea with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. Mori will also hear Seoul's views on the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.

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Obuchi's first press call of 2000 at official residence

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, in a file photo, is shown attending this year's first press conference at his official residence. Obuchi, who died May 14, was announcing the logo for the Group of Eight summit scheduled for July 21-23 in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Police to use special guard box during Okinawa summit

NAHA, Japan - A policeman poses for pictures April 20 in a new ''shisa'' guard box, developed by Okinawa prefectural police to house security guards at the 2000 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in Okinawa Prefecture on July 21-23. The roof of the box has been designed in imitation of the red tile roof seen on traditional Okinawa houses and bears the motif of a ''shisa'' -- a lion believed in local folklore to fend off evil spirits.

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Okinawa starts 100-day countdown to G-8 summit

NAHA, Japan - An Okinawa prefectural government official, assisted by local nursery school children, unveiles a 7.2-meter-tall wooden countdown board reading ''100 days to go before the summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations'' in Okinawa scheduled for July 21-23.

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Clinton's gifts handed to Okinawa students

NAHA, Japan - Yukino Matsuda (L), 16, and Takashi Toma, 17, of Urasoe Senior High School in Okinawa, show their gifts from U.S. President Bill Clinton. The gifts were handed to them July 82 by a prefectural government official who said the president appreciated the yougsters in Okinawa for welcoming him in the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit.

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Okinawa summit to open July 21

NAGO, Japan - Photo, taken at 7:15 p.m. on July 20, shows the Bankoku Shinryokan, a newly built conference center in the city of Nago, northern Okinawa, where leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations will hold their 26th annual summit July 21-23.

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Police on alert ahead of Okinawa summit

NAGO, Japan - Police officers, dispatched from the Metropolitan Police Department to help local police, patrol aboard a watercraft near the Manza Beach Hotel in the village of Onna, Okinawa Prefecture, on July 16 ahead of the July 21-23 summit of Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations.

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Naha citizens clean street along Shuri Castle Park

NAHA, Japan - Residents of Naha, capital of Okinawa, clean a street along Shuri Castle on July 16 ahead of a summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations to be held in this southernmost island prefecture on July 21-23.

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Fireworks show welcomes G-8 foreign ministers meeting

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A display of fireworks in the Matsuyama district of Miyazaki on July 11 takes place on the eve of the start of a meeting of foreign ministers of Group of Eight (G-8) countries. The two-day meeting gets under way in the city the next day, to be followed by a G-8 summit in Okinawa Prefecture on July 21-23.

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Police stop cars near site of G-8 foreign ministers' meet

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Police stop cars and check the drivers' documents July 10 near the Seagaia seaside resort complex in Miyazaki where foreign ministers from the Group of Eight (G-8) countries will hold two days of talks July 12 and 13. The G-8 ministers will discuss political and security issues to set the stage for the July 21-23 summit of their leaders in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Miyazaki's G-8 press center opens

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Staff of the press center at the venue for the meeting of Group of Eight (G-8) foreign ministers in Miyazaki Prefecture begin work July 11, the center's first day of operation. The two-day meeting gets under way the following day, to be followed by a summit of G-8 leaders in Okinawa Prefecture on July 21-23.

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Kono arrives in Miyazaki for G-8 meeting

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono arrives in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, to attend the two-day meeting of the Group of Eight (G-8) foreign ministers. The July 12-13 meeting at the Seagaia seaside resort complex will be followed by the July 21-23 G-8 summit in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Japan, U.S. resume NTT interconnection fee talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and U.S. officials on July 10 resume talks in Tokyo on telecommunications deregulation in a bid to resolve their longstanding dispute over Japan's telephone interconnection rates before the July 21-23 Group of Eight summit in Okinawa Prefecture. The two countries are at odds over how to reduce the hookup fees that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. charges its competitors for use of its local networks. The previous round of talks was held in March.

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Over 700 police stage VIP motorcade drill for G-8 summit

NAHA, Japan - More than 700 police officers staged a VIP motorcade escort drill in Naha on July 9 in preparation for the July 21-23 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) major powers in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. Each motorcade involved 12 to 14 police vehicles. Police motorcycles led the way and traffic signals along the road were adjusted for the drill. The motorcades left the airport at three-minute intervals and the first arrived at the Bankoku-shinryo Kan just before 8 a.m.

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Naha airport completes preparations for G-8 summit

NAHA, Japan - Naha airport prepares to welcome top officials of the Group of Eight countries at the Okinawa summit by displaying the flags of the participating nations on June 19, one month before the July 21-23 conference starts.

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Okinawans stage 'peace walk' around U.S. Kadena air base

NAHA, Japan - About 100 Okinawa residents join a ''Peace Walk'' around the U.S. Air Force Kadena Air Base in central Okinawa on June 18. The event was held ahead of the July 21-23 Group of Eight summit in the northern Okinawan city of Nago. Kadena is the largest U.S. military base in the Far East.

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Mori talks with Mahathir

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad hold talks at a Tokyo hotel June 8. Mahathir asked Mori to study how to narrow the digital divide in his discussions with other leaders of the Group of Eight nations during their July 21-23 summit in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Mori arrives in Okinawa to view G-8 summit venue

NAHA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) arrives in Okinawa Prefecture on May 14 to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the main venue of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in July. Mori will attend the ceremony for the Bankoku Shinryokan in the northern Okinawa city of Nago, the main venue for the July 21-23 summit. He will also inspect Shuri Castle, where press conferences and a dinner for G-8 leaders will be held, among other places.

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Printing of 2,000 yen bills begins

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Finance Ministry on May 8 begins printing 2,000 yen banknotes at its Takinogawa plant in Tokyo's Kita Ward. The new bills, issued to commemorate the summit of the Group of Eight nations in Okinawa Prefecture on July 21-23, feature an illustration of the Shureimon Gate in Naha, considered a symbol of the prefecture. The bills will be put into circulation July 19.

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Premier Obuchi leaves for Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan, - Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (C) leaves Haneda airport for Okinawa Prefecture on March 25 to inspect the venues of the Group of Eight (G-8) major nations' summit, to be held in the northern Okinawa Island city of Nago in July 21-23. The premier, who visits the southernmost island prefecture for the first time since he assumed the post, is to hold a press conference at Okinawa Harbor View Hotel in Naha in the prefecture on March 26.

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Okinawa gov. inspects summit venue

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (2nd from R) walks to his car after inspecting the venue for the July 21-23 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) major powers in the city of Nago, northern Okinawa Island, on March 22. The Bankoku Shinryokan (a hall to build a bridge across a thousand nations) complex, where the G-8 leaders are to meet, is almost completed.

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Foreign reporters visit Miyazaki site for July G-8 meeting

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Foreign reporters from 11 countries, including the United States, France and China, visit the venue for a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G-8) in July in Miyazaki Prefecture. Foreign ministers will meet July 12-13, while finance ministers will gather in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 8 before the summit in Okinawa Prefecture July 21-23.

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Construction of G-8 summit venue nearing completion

NAHA, Japan - Construction of the main venue for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit scheduled for July 21-23 in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, is nearing completion. The large building with red tiles (at the center), which houses the main conference hall, is due for completion in late March.