Christmas in Gaza

Christmas in Gaza

People attend a Christmas service at a Catholic church in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on Dec. 25, 2025.

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Undisputed super bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue (L) and Mexican challenger Alan Picasso pose during a press conference in Riyadh on Dec. 25, 2025, ahead of their title match in the Saudi Arabian capital on Dec. 27.

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Undisputed super bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue (front, L) and Mexican challenger Alan Picasso (front, R) pose during a press conference in Riyadh on Dec. 25, 2025, ahead of their title match in the Saudi Arabian capital on Dec. 27.

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Undisputed super bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue (front, L) and Mexican challenger Alan Picasso (front, R) pose during a press conference in Riyadh on Dec. 25, 2025, ahead of their title match in the Saudi Arabian capital on Dec. 27.

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Undisputed super bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue of Japan speaks during a press conference in Riyadh on Dec. 25, 2025, ahead of his title defense against Mexican challenger Alan Picasso in the Saudi Arabian capital on Dec. 27.

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Boxing: Naoya Inoue

Undisputed super bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue of Japan speaks during a press conference in Riyadh on Dec. 25, 2025, ahead of his title defense against Mexican challenger Alan Picasso in the Saudi Arabian capital on Dec. 27.

Christmas in Ukraine

Christmas in Ukraine

People pose for a photo in front of a giant Christmas tree in Kyiv on Dec. 25, 2025.

Christmas in Ukraine

Christmas in Ukraine

People gather near a giant Christmas tree in Kyiv on Dec. 25, 2025.

Travel company outlet in Beijing

Travel company outlet in Beijing

Photo taken on Dec. 25, 2025, shows brochures for various travel destinations at a travel agency outlet in Beijing. No brochures on Japan are available at the outlet as the Chinese government has asked people to refrain from traveling to Japan following Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan.

Travel company outlet in Beijing

Travel company outlet in Beijing

Photo taken on Dec. 25, 2025, shows brochures for various travel destinations at a travel agency outlet in Beijing. No brochures on Japan are available at the outlet as the Chinese government has asked people to refrain from traveling to Japan following Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan.

Travel company outlet in Beijing

Travel company outlet in Beijing

Photo taken on Dec. 25, 2025, shows posters for various travel destinations at a travel agency outlet in Beijing. No posters introducing Japan are seen at the outlet as the Chinese government has asked people to refrain from traveling to Japan following Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan.

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gives an interview at the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters in the capital on Dec. 25, 2025.

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gives an interview at the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters in the capital on Dec. 25, 2025.

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gives an interview at the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters in the capital on Dec. 25, 2025.

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gives an interview at the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters in the capital on Dec. 25, 2025.

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike gives an interview at the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters in the capital on Dec. 25, 2025.

New Japanese Antarctic expedition team arrives at base

New Japanese Antarctic expedition team arrives at base

Members (R) of the 67th Japanese Antarctic research expedition are greeted by members of the 66th expedition at Japan's Syowa Station in Antarctica on Dec. 25, 2025, upon their arrival via helicopter from the Japanese icebreaker Shirase. (Photo by accompanying journalist)

BOJ chief

BOJ chief

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a meeting hosted by the Japanese Business Federation in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025.

BOJ chief

BOJ chief

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a meeting hosted by the Japanese Business Federation in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025.

Japan PM Takaichi

Japan PM Takaichi

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi makes a speech in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

Japan PM Takaichi

Japan PM Takaichi

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi makes a speech in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

BOJ chief Ueda

BOJ chief Ueda

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025.

BOJ chief Ueda

BOJ chief Ueda

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025.

BOJ chief Ueda

BOJ chief Ueda

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025.

Takaichi at economic and fiscal policy meeting

Takaichi at economic and fiscal policy meeting

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (blue) speaks at a Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy meeting at her office in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025.

Takaichi at economic and fiscal policy meeting

Takaichi at economic and fiscal policy meeting

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (blue) speaks at a Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy meeting at her office in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025.

Takaichi at economic and fiscal policy meeting

Takaichi at economic and fiscal policy meeting

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy meeting at her office in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2025.

Suzuki Motor's former leader Osamu Suzuki dies at 94

Suzuki Motor's former leader Osamu Suzuki dies at 94

Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman and President Osamu Suzuki (far L) poses for a photo during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Alto commercial vehicle in Hamamatsu in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka in May 2009. Suzuki died of malignant lymphoma at age 94 on Dec. 25, 2024.

Suzuki Motor's former leader Osamu Suzuki dies at 94

Suzuki Motor's former leader Osamu Suzuki dies at 94

Photo taken on Feb. 14, 2020, shows Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki during an interview in Hamamatsu, the central Japan city where his company is based. Suzuki died of malignant lymphoma at age 94 on Dec. 25, 2024.

20th anniv. of Sumatra earthquake-tsunami disaster

20th anniv. of Sumatra earthquake-tsunami disaster

Photo taken on Dec. 25, 2024, shows a coastal residential area in Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra that was rebuilt after the Dec. 26, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake-tsunami disaster that killed around 230,000 people.

20th anniv. of Sumatra earthquake-tsunami disaster

20th anniv. of Sumatra earthquake-tsunami disaster

Photo taken on Dec. 25, 2024, shows a coastal residential area in Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra that was rebuilt after the Dec. 26, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake-tsunami disaster that killed around 230,000 people.

20th anniv. of Sumatra earthquake-tsunami disaster

20th anniv. of Sumatra earthquake-tsunami disaster

Photo shows a mosque in Banda Aceh and the cityscape on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, on Dec. 25, 2024, a day ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake-tsunami disaster that claimed around 230,000 lives.

20th anniv. of Sumatra earthquake-tsunami disaster

20th anniv. of Sumatra earthquake-tsunami disaster

Photo shows a mosque in Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, on Dec. 25, 2024, a day ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake-tsunami disaster that claimed around 230,000 lives.

Sumo: Kotozakura

Sumo: Kotozakura

Ozeki Kotozakura (L) practices at his stable in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 25, 2024, ahead of the 15-day New Year Grand Sumo Tournament opening at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Jan. 12.

Japan-China talks

Japan-China talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (far L) and China's top diplomat, Wang Yi (far R), hold talks in Beijing on Dec. 25, 2024. (Pool photo)

Japan-China high-level dialogue

Japan-China high-level dialogue

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (far L) and China's top diplomat, Wang Yi (far R), attend a high-level cultural exchange dialogue in Beijing on Dec. 25, 2024.

Japan-China high-level dialogue

Japan-China high-level dialogue

(from L) Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Toshiko Abe, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, are pictured ahead of a high-level cultural exchange dialogue in Beijing on Dec. 25, 2024.

Self-driving bus begins commercial service in Ehime Pref.

Self-driving bus begins commercial service in Ehime Pref.

A self-driving bus begins operating on a public road in Matsuyama in the western Japan prefecture of Ehime on Dec. 25, 2024.

Self-driving bus begins commercial service in Ehime Pref.

Self-driving bus begins commercial service in Ehime Pref.

A self-driving bus begins operating on a public road in Matsuyama in the western Japan prefecture of Ehime on Dec. 25, 2024.

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Former New York Yankees ace and new Yomiuri Giants signee Masahiro Tanaka (L) receives a jersey and a cap from Giants manager Shinnosuke Abe during an introductory press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024.

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Former New York Yankees ace and new Yomiuri Giants signee Masahiro Tanaka (L) poses with Giants manager Shinnosuke Abe during an introductory press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024.

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Former New York Yankees ace and new Yomiuri Giants signee Masahiro Tanaka attends an introductory press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024.

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Former New York Yankees ace and new Yomiuri Giants signee Masahiro Tanaka attends an introductory press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024.

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Former New York Yankees ace and new Yomiuri Giants signee Masahiro Tanaka poses while wearing a jersey at an introductory press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024.

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Former New York Yankees ace and new Yomiuri Giants signee Masahiro Tanaka (L) attends an introductory press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024. Giants manager Shinnosuke Abe sits beside him.

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Baseball: Ex-Yankees ace Tanaka joins Giants

Former New York Yankees ace and new Yomiuri Giants signee Masahiro Tanaka attends an introductory press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024.

BOJ chief Ueda

BOJ chief Ueda

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda makes a speech in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024.

BOJ chief Ueda

BOJ chief Ueda

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda makes a speech in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2024.

Japan-China talks

Japan-China talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (L) and China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, shake hands during their meeting in Beijing on Dec. 25, 2024. (Pool photo)

Japan-China talks

Japan-China talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya holds talks with China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, during their meeting in Beijing on Dec. 25, 2024. (Pool photo)