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IOC chief Bach

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks to the press in Saint-Denis, outside of Paris, on Dec. 1, 2023.

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United Airlines plane

Photo taken Dec. 1, 2023, shows an United Airlines plane on a runway in Colorado, United States.

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Hiroshima mayor in Hawaii

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (L) has a conversation with a park ranger during a visit to Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Honolulu on Dec. 1, 2023. Honolulu is Hiroshima's sister city.

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U.N. meeting on Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Attendees clap their hands as the second meeting of parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons comes to a close at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Hiroshima mayor in Hawaii

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (L) shakes hands with Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi at Honolulu's city office on Dec. 1, 2023. Honolulu is Hiroshima's sister city.

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Speed skating: World Cup in Norway

Kjeld Nuis (C) of the Netherlands poses for a photo after winning gold in the men's 1,000 meters at a World Cup speed skating meet in Stavanger, Norway, on Dec. 1, 2023, alongside silver medalist Tatsuya Shinhama (L) and bronze medalist Kazuya Yamada of Japan.

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Speed skating: World Cup in Norway

Jutta Leerdam (C) of the Netherlands poses for a photo after winning gold in the women's 1,000 meters at a World Cup speed skating meet in Stavanger, Norway, on Dec. 1, 2023, alongside silver medalist Miho Takagi (L) of Japan and bronze medalist Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong of the Netherlands.

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Speed skating: World Cup in Norway

Japan's Miho Takagi competes en route to winning silver in the women's 1,000 meters at a World Cup speed skating meet in Stavanger, Norway, on Dec. 1, 2023.

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"Stove train" in northeastern Japan

A conductor grills dried squids on a coal stove on a special "stove train" running in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023, the first day of operation this season. Tsugaru Railway's popular train service will run through the end of March 2024.

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"Stove train" in northeastern Japan

Photo shows a special "stove train" equipped with coal stoves in Goshogawara in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023, the first day of operation this season. Tsugaru Railway's popular train service will run through the end of March 2024.

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Takarazuka Revue resumes performing

Fans enter Takarazuka Grand Theater in Takarazuka in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023, as the all-female theater troupe Takarazuka Revue resumes performing after a two-month suspension due to the death of a 25-year-old actress, suspected to have taken her own life after overwork and bullying within the troupe.

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Takarazuka Revue resumes performing

Fans enter Takarazuka Grand Theater in Takarazuka in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023, as the all-female theater troupe Takarazuka Revue resumes performing after a two-month suspension due to the death of a 25-year-old actress, suspected to have taken her own life after overwork and bullying within the troupe.

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Japan boy band at dance event in Vietnam

Japanese pop group Da Pump performs in Hanoi on Dec. 1, 2023, at a dance festival marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Japan and Vietnam.

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Japan boy band at dance event in Vietnam

Japanese pop group Da Pump performs in Hanoi on Dec. 1, 2023, at a dance festival marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Japan and Vietnam.

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Atomic bomb survivor on nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, attends an online press conference, held at the U.N. headquarters in New York, on Dec. 1, 2023, as parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons closed their second meeting the same day.

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U.N. meeting on Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The closing session of the second meeting of parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is held at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L) holds talks over dinner with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi (2nd from R) in Dubai on Dec. 1, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) shakes hands with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ahead of their talks over dinner in Dubai on Dec. 1, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) shakes hands with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ahead of their talks over dinner in Dubai on Dec. 1, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Search after U.S. military Osprey crash

U.S. military personnel leave a port on the island of Yakushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on Dec. 1, 2023, as the search continues for the crew members of a U.S. military CV-22 Osprey aircraft that crashed in nearby waters two days earlier.

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Dubai on Dec. 1, 2023.(Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C, R) walks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their talks in Dubai on Dec. 1, 2023.(Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) holds talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Dubai on Dec. 1, 2023.(Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C, R) walks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their talks in Dubai on Dec. 1, 2023.(Pool photo)

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Santa Claus arrives in Japan from Finland

Santa Claus shakes hands with a child after arriving at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, from Finland on Dec. 1, 2023 as part of a promotional campaign by the northern European country's airline Finnair.

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Santa Claus arrives in Japan from Finland

Santa Claus arrives at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, from Finland on Dec. 1, 2023 as part of a promotional campaign by the northern European country's airline Finnair.

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Giant Xmas tree in northern Japan

A 20-meter-tall Christmas tree is illuminated with about 150,000 LED lights in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Giant Xmas tree in northern Japan

A 20-meter-tall Christmas tree is illuminated with about 150,000 LED lights in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Meeting between Japan defense chief and German ambassador to Japan

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara (R) and German Ambassador to Japan Clemens von Goetze shake hands before their talks in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Princess Aiko turns 22

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the Akasaka estate in Tokyo to pay her respects to former Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko, her grandparents, on Dec. 1, 2023, as she turns 22. (Pool photo)

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Osprey flies over Okinawa

A U.S. military Osprey aircraft flies over an urban area of Ginowan in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Dec. 1, 2023. One of the U.S. military's Ospreys crashed in waters off a small Japanese island two days before, prompting Tokyo to request they be grounded temporarily.

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Osprey flies over Okinawa

An Osprey aircraft prepares to land at the U.S. military's Futenma air base in Ginowan in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Dec. 1, 2023. One of the U.S. military's Ospreys crashed in waters off a small Japanese island two days earlier, prompting Tokyo to request they be grounded temporarily.

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press during a visit to Dubai for a U.N. climate conference on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Japan PM Kishida in Dubai

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press during a visit to Dubai for a U.N. climate conference on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Nationwide street fundraising by Buddhist monks

Tendai Buddhist monks walk around houses in the Shiga Prefecture city of Otsu, western Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023, for street fundraising across the nation, with proceeds to be donated to such organizations as Japanese Red Cross Society.

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Rengo president Yoshino

Tomoko Yoshino, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, addresses a committee meeting of the country's largest labor organization known as Rengo in Urayasu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Rengo president Yoshino

Tomoko Yoshino, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, addresses a committee meeting of the country's largest labor organization known as Rengo in Urayasu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Rengo president Yoshino

Tomoko Yoshino, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, addresses a committee meeting of the country's largest labor organization known as Rengo in Urayasu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023.

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Ex-islanders call for early return of islands off Hokkaido

Japanese former residents of Russian-held islands off Hokkaido and local municipal government officials take to the streets after a rally in Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Dec. 1, 2023, seeking the early return of the islets, known as the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

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Ex-islanders call for early return of islands off Hokkaido

Japanese former residents of four Russian-held, Japanese claimed islets off Hokkaido and local municipal government officials march the streets in Tokyo's Ginza area on Dec. 1, 2023 in a rally seeking the early return of the islets, known as the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

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Ex-islanders call for early return of islands off Hokkaido

Japanese former residents of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido and local municipal government officials hold a rally in Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Dec. 1, 2023, seeking the early return of the islets, known as the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

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Osprey flies over Okinawa

An Osprey aircraft takes off from the U.S. military's Futenma air base in Ginowan in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Dec. 1, 2023. One of the U.S. military's Ospreys crashed near a small Japanese island two days before, prompting Tokyo to request they be grounded temporarily.

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Osprey flies over Okinawa

A U.S. military Osprey aircraft flies over an urban area of Ginowan in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Dec. 1, 2023. One of the U.S. military's Ospreys crashed near a small Japanese island two days before, prompting Tokyo to request they be grounded temporarily.

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Search after U.S. military Osprey crash

U.S. military personnel leave a port on the island of Yakushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on Dec. 1, 2023, as the search continues for the crew members of a U.S. military CV-22 Osprey aircraft that crashed in nearby waters two days earlier.

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Search after U.S. military Osprey crash

Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force search the coast on the island of Yakushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on Dec. 1, 2023, following the crash of a U.S. military CV-22 Osprey aircraft in nearby waters two days earlier.

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Search after U.S. military Osprey crash

Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force search the coast on the island of Yakushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on Dec. 1, 2023, following the crash of a U.S. military CV-22 Osprey aircraft in nearby waters two days earlier.