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Naked protest against killing animals for fur

Holding placards and banners, members of an antifur citizen's group protest against the killing of animals for fur outside the West exit of JR's Shinjuku station in Tokyo on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The group, called Free Animals Network, started the antifur campaign in 1994.

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Troops prepare for military drills

Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) troops check tanks on Tuesday, Nov. 10 in preparation for a comprehensive training program of a joint military drill with U.S. Marines to begin Wednesday at the GSDF Kirishima range in Miyazaki Prefecture. The program follows separate functional training programs on communication and rescue that have been under way since Nov. 6.

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Sammy Sosa visits children's hospital

Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa, in Japan as a member of the Major League Baseball (MBL) All-Stars, poses for photographers with an unidentified Japanese girl during his charity visit to Fukuoka Municipal Children's Hospital on Tuesday, Nov. 10. He was presented with a bouquet and a string of 66 paper-folded cranes which he wears around his neck.

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Indonesian students blocked by troops

Troops and riot police block students in Jakarta on Monday, Nov. 9 as they try to head in buses toward the parliament complex, where the People's Consultative Assembly, Indonesia's highest constitutional body, is scheduled to convene on Tuesday, Nov. 10. The pro-reform students were vowed to fight ''to the death'' to prevent the assembly from being convened.

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Japan, U.S. hold summit talks in New York

Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and U.S. President Bill Clinton shake hands Tuesday, Sept. 22, before their informal summit at a New York hotel. During the three-hour meeting, the two leaders agreed that Japan must quickly fix its banking system and economy to help Asian and other world economies. Obuchi also accepted an invitation from Clinton to visit Washington early next year, to continue what Obuchi called ''very candid'' talks on ''very substantive and important'' issues.

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EPA gives economy even bleaker grade in Sept. report

The Economic Planning Agency (EPA) further downgrades its assessment of the Japanese economy in its September report released Tuesday, Sept. 8, saying the economy is in ''a prolonged slump and a very severe situation.'' The government report, which is based mainly on July data, cites a further fall in housing starts and the plunge of Tokyo stock prices as the main factors on which it based the gloomy diagnosis of the nation's economy. The photo shows EPA chief Taichi Sakaiya (far L) attending a meeting of cabinet ministers concerned in the Diet building.

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Daylight Raid

Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro HASHIMOTO at the press conference right after Peruvian military forces ended the 127-day-old hostage crisis in a daylight raid on Tuesday, April 22 1997. (Photo taken at the Prime minister's office)