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Security forum begins in Beijing

The three-day Xiangshan Forum begins in Beijing on Sept. 17, 2025, with representatives from about 100 countries and international organizations, including Japan, attending to discuss security in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Security forum begins in Beijing

The three-day Xiangshan Forum begins in Beijing on Sept. 17, 2025, with representatives from about 100 countries and international organizations, including Japan, attending to discuss security in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Pref.

Priests attend a tree-felling ceremony at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2025, as part of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at the Shinto shrine in the central Japan city. Over 30 rites are planned for the 63rd "Shikinen Sengu," with a history of about 1,300 years, which will culminate in 2033 when an object believed to contain the spirit of the shrine's deity will be transferred to the shrine's newly reconstructed main hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Pref.

Priests attend a tree-felling ceremony at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2025, as part of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at the Shinto shrine in the central Japan city. Over 30 rites are planned for the 63rd "Shikinen Sengu," with a history of about 1,300 years, which will culminate in 2033 when an object believed to contain the spirit of the shrine's deity will be transferred to the shrine's newly reconstructed main hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Pref.

Priests attend a tree-felling ceremony at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2025, as part of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at the Shinto shrine in the central Japan city. Over 30 rites are planned for the 63rd "Shikinen Sengu," with a history of about 1,300 years, which will culminate in 2033 when an object believed to contain the spirit of the shrine's deity will be transferred to the shrine's newly reconstructed main hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Pref.

Priests attend a tree-felling ceremony at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2025, as part of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at the Shinto shrine in the central Japan city. Over 30 rites are planned for the 63rd "Shikinen Sengu," with a history of about 1,300 years, which will culminate in 2033 when an object believed to contain the spirit of the shrine's deity will be transferred to the shrine's newly reconstructed main hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Pref.

Priests attend a tree-felling ceremony at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2025, as part of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at the Shinto shrine in the central Japan city. Over 30 rites are planned for the 63rd "Shikinen Sengu," with a history of about 1,300 years, which will culminate in 2033 when an object believed to contain the spirit of the shrine's deity will be transferred to the shrine's newly reconstructed main hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Pref.

Priests attend a tree-felling ceremony at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2025, as part of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at the Shinto shrine in the central Japan city. Over 30 rites are planned for the 63rd "Shikinen Sengu," with a history of about 1,300 years, which will culminate in 2033 when an object believed to contain the spirit of the shrine's deity will be transferred to the shrine's newly reconstructed main hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Pref.

Priests attend a tree-felling ceremony at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2025, as part of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at the Shinto shrine in the central Japan city. Over 30 rites are planned for the 63rd "Shikinen Sengu," with a history of about 1,300 years, which will culminate in 2033 when an object believed to contain the spirit of the shrine's deity will be transferred to the shrine's newly reconstructed main hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in Mie Pref.

Priests attend a tree-felling ceremony at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2025, as part of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at the Shinto shrine in the central Japan city. Over 30 rites are planned for the 63rd "Shikinen Sengu," with a history of about 1,300 years, which will culminate in 2033 when an object believed to contain the spirit of the shrine's deity will be transferred to the shrine's newly reconstructed main hall.

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World Masters Games in Taiwan

Japanese athletes march during the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Masters Games in Taipei on May 17, 2025. About 26,000 athletes aged 30 or older, including some 740 Japanese, will compete in 35 disciplines in the games, the first of their kind in Asia.

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World Masters Games in Taiwan

Japanese athletes march during the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Masters Games in Taipei on May 17, 2025. About 26,000 athletes aged 30 or older, including some 740 Japanese, will compete in 35 disciplines in the games, the first of their kind in Asia.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki addresses a rally in the Okinawa Prefecture town of Chatan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, following a peace march calling for reducing the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near the U.S. Kadena Air Base (in the background) in the Okinawa Prefecture town of Kadena, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Kobe Marathon

Runners start in the Kobe Marathon in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2024. About 20,000 people took part in the event, held under the theme "thanks and friendship" as the western Japan city soon marks the 30th anniversary of the January 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Kobe Marathon

Runners start in the Kobe Marathon in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2024. About 20,000 people took part in the event, held under the theme "thanks and friendship" as the western Japan city soon marks the 30th anniversary of the January 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Anti-disaster drill at Narita airport

A large-scale anti-disaster drill is conducted at Narita airport near Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2024, simulating a passenger plane catching fire following a failed nighttime landing due to downburst. About 830 people including firefighters took part in the drill, conducted in the wake of a Japan Airlines plane collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 2.

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Anti-disaster drill at Narita airport

A large-scale anti-disaster drill is conducted at Narita airport near Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2024, simulating a passenger plane catching fire following a failed nighttime landing due to downburst. About 830 people including firefighters took part in the drill, conducted in the wake of a Japan Airlines plane collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 2.

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Flying vehicle's first flight in capital

Photo taken on May 17, 2024, shows the inaugural flight in Tokyo of a flying vehicle. The vehicle developed by LIFT Aircraft of the United States and driven by one person flew about 10 meters above ground in front of about 500 people in Tokyo's Koto Ward.

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Flying vehicle's first flight in capital

Photo taken on May 17, 2024, shows the inaugural flight in Tokyo of a flying vehicle. The vehicle developed by LIFT Aircraft of the United States and driven by one person flew about 10 meters above ground in front of about 500 people in Tokyo's Koto Ward.

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Flying vehicle's first flight in capital

Photo taken on May 17, 2024, shows the inaugural flight in Tokyo of a flying vehicle. The vehicle developed by LIFT Aircraft of the United States and driven by one person flew about 10 meters above ground in front of about 500 people in Tokyo's Koto Ward.

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Flying vehicle's first flight in capital

Photo taken on May 17, 2024, shows the inaugural flight in Tokyo of a flying vehicle. The vehicle developed by LIFT Aircraft of the United States and driven by one person flew about 10 meters above ground in front of about 500 people in Tokyo's Koto Ward.

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Saury landing at eastern Japan port

Saury are landed at a port in Choshi in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Nov. 17, 2023, for the first time in about two years amid recent poor catch.

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Paris Olympics opening ceremony test

A boat and barge cruise on the Seine River on July 17, 2023, during a test for the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony. Thousands of Olympic athletes are scheduled to cruise on about 160 boats along the river for the games opening ceremony on July 26, 2024.

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Paris Olympics opening ceremony test

Paris Olympics organizing committee chief Tony Estanguet (front, R) meets the press in Paris on July 17, 2023, after the committee held a test for the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony on the Seine River. Thousands of Olympic athletes are scheduled to cruise on about 160 boats along the river for the games opening ceremony on July 26, 2024.

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10th anniversary of Zhao Ziyang's death in Beijing

BEIJING, China - About 100 people bow at the home of Zhao Ziyang, the late general secretary of China's Communist Party, on Jan. 17, 2015, as they commemorate the 10th anniversary of his death. Zhao was purged in 1989 for opposing a military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square in the capital.

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Japan marks 20 years since Kobe quake

KOBE, Japan - About 5,900 people take part in a memorial walk in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2015, the 20th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, to trace the routes that were used for evacuation and other purposes after the quake that claimed the lives of 6,434 people.

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Unified college entrance exams begin across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Examinees sit for the unified college entrance examinations at the University of Tokyo in Tokyo's Hongo district on Jan. 17, 2015, as the two-day event began across Japan with about 559,000 applicants and a record 849 public and private institutions taking part.

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Fabric woven by 2,700 people in sympathy with disaster victims

KOBE, Japan - A "Saori-ori" freely woven piece involving about 2,700 people affected by big disasters, including tsunami-hit Thais, is shown in Kobe on Jan. 14, 2015, en route to completion on Jan. 17, 2015, with the ultimate length of 311 meters to signify the 3/11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of 2011 in northeastern Japan. Jan. 17 marked the 20th anniversary of the devastating 1995 quake that hit Kobe and vicinity.

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Dozen reported injured on American flight after turbulence

NARITA, Japan - Passengers on an American Airlines flight that left South Korea's Incheon International Airport bound for Dallas in the United States arrive at Japan's Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014, having made an emergency landing there after encountering turbulence. It was reported that about dozen people sustained minor injuries.

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Toray agrees on 1 tril. yen supply contract with Boeing

TOKYO, Japan - Akihiro Nikkaku (L), president of Toray Industries Inc., shakes hands with John J. Tracy, chief technology officer of Boeing Co., at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2014. Toray said it has agreed on a new contract worth 1 trillion yen (about $8.7 billion) to supply carbon fiber for Boeing's jets and will begin talks to work together with the U.S. aircraft maker to lower the costs of the lightweight material.

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'Cat temple' in Fukui Pref.

FUKUI, Japan - Some of over 50 formerly abandoned cats living in the precincts of the Gotanjoji Temple, dubbed "the cat temple" among cat fanciers, are photographed on June 17, 2014, in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture. About 10,000 cat-loving people annually visit the temple built in 2002.

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Sanja Festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - Local people carry a mikoshi (portable shrine) through the Nakamise Dori shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa district on May 17, 2014, the second day of the annual Sanja Matsuri (Sanja Festival), which has a history of about 700 years and is one of the three-biggest festivals in Japan. Some 100 portable shrines from the district's 44 neighborhoods were paraded in the district.

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Sanja Festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - A mikoshi (portable shrine) carried by local people is paraded under the Kaminari Gate of Sensoji Temple in Asakusa in central Tokyo on May 17, 2014, during the annual Sanja Matsuri (Sanja Festival) on May 17, 2014. About 100 portable shrines from the district's 44 neighborhoods were carried through the area on the second day of the three-day festival, which has a history of about 700 years and is one of the three-biggest festivals in Japan.

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Sanja Festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - The Nakamise Dori shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa is packed with local people carrying mikoshi (portable shrines) and visitors during the annual Sanja Matsuri (Sanja Festival) on May 17, 2014. About 100 portable shrines from the district's 44 neighborhoods were carried on the second day of the three-day festival, which has a history of about 700 years and is one of the three-biggest festivals in Japan.

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"Manga" museum reopens after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Ishinomori Mangattan Museum, a museum featuring the Masked Rider series and other works of the late cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori, reopens in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2012, after closing for about 20 months since the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

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"Manga" museum reopens after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Ishinomori Mangattan Museum, a museum featuring the Masked Rider series and other works of the late cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori, reopens in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2012, after closing for about 20 months since the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

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"Manga" museum reopens after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Ishinomori Mangattan Museum, a museum featuring the Masked Rider series and other works of the late cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori, reopens in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2012, after closing for about 20 months since the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

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"Red snow" on Greenland glacier

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Members of a Japanese expedition team to the North Pole observe "red snow" on a Greenland glacier in the Arctic on July 17, 2012. They spotted an area of about 30 square meters colored red by the massive generation of microbes with red pigments as a result of rising temperatures.

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"Red snow" on Greenland glacier

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Members of a Japanese expedition team to the North Pole observe "red snow" on a Greenland glacier in the Arctic on July 17, 2012. They spotted an area of about 30 square meters colored red by the massive generation of microbes with red pigments as a result of rising temperatures.

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Pencil with sculpted tip

KOFU, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 17, 2012, in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in central Japan, shows a pencil with its graphite tip sculptured into the word ''gokaku,'' meaning passing the exam or selection process. Toshiyuki Yamazaki, a local pencil sculptor, creates and sells the pencil for 8,000 yen (about $104) as a gift for students taking entrance exams or going for job interviews.

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Protest in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - About 2,000 people attend a rally in Moscow on Dec. 17, 2011, to protest alleged irregularities in vote counting in Russia's parliamentary elections.

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TEPCO aims to achieve 'cold shutdown' for reactors in 6-9 months

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (front) bows in an apology at the end of a press conference in Tokyo on April 17, 2011. He said TEPCO aims to bring the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to a stable condition known as a ''cold shutdown'' in about six to nine months, while trying to achieve a ''steady reduction'' in levels of radiation leaks in about three months.

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Memorial Mass in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO, Brazil - People pay floral tribute at a memorial Mass in Sao Paulo for quake and tsunami victims in Japan, organized by local ethnic Japanese groups, on March 17, 2011. About 500 participants commemorated the victims of the historic earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11.

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Memorial Mass in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Participants of a memorial Mass in Sao Paulo for quake and tsunami victims in Japan, organized by local ethnic Japanese groups, wipe off tears on March 17, 2011. About 500 participants commemorated the victims of the historic earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11.