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Japan: Rare Brocken Spectre with Rainbow Halo Spotted in Japanese Alps

Captured at Karasawa-dake, a peak near Mount Okuhotaka, this video shows a rare Brocken spectre. The climber’s shadow appears on the mist below, clearly surrounded by a bright, rainbow-colored halo. This optical phenomenon occurs when the sun is low behind the observer, creating a ghostly shadow that seems to float in the clouds.

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Prince Takamado encourages Japan

Japanese Prince Takamado, center, holding cap, encourages the Japanese World Cup squad June 16 at a practice field in the French Alps resort of Aix-les-Bains.

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Okada stresses points for Japanese national team

Japan manager Takeshi Okada stresses points to the Japanese national team in the French Alps resort of AIX-LES-BAINS prior to resuming practice June 15 for Japan's Group H World Cup match against Croatia on June 20.

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GERMANY-SCHLOSS ELMAU-G7 SUMMIT

(220626) -- ELMAU, June 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- (From L to R) European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, stand for a group photo during the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Schloss Elmau in south Germany's Bavarian Alps on June 26, 2022. Leaders of the G7 kicked off their three-day annual summit on Sunday in Schloss Elmau in south Germany's Bavarian Alps amid lower expectations and protests. (Xinhua/Guo Chen)

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Huge illumination depicts Alps

Photo taken Oct. 23, 2015, shows a 120-meter-wide, 35-meter-high illumination depicting the Alps at a leisure facility in the central Japanese city of Kuwana. The illumination will be open to the public through May 8, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Huge illumination depicts Alps

Photo taken Oct. 23, 2015, shows a 120-meter-wide, 35-meter-high illumination depicting the Alps at a leisure facility in the central Japanese city of Kuwana. The illumination will be open to the public through May 8, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Relatives of Japanese victims visit near site of Germanwings crash

Family members and people close to Junichi Sato, one of two Japanese victims aboard a Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps, visit the village of Le Vernet, France, on March 29, 2014. The co-pilot is suspected of deliberately crashing the plane near the village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mt. Kuro rated as physically most tough for climbers

Mt. Kuro, a 2,986-meter peak in the Northern Alps mountain range in central Japan, seen in this undated file photo, is designated as physically tough for climbers by an exercise physiologist among Japan's 100 famous mountains selected by a Japanese writer and mountaineer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese anime exhibition in Switzerland

A visitor looks at exhibits featuring Japanese TV animation series "Heidi a Girl of the Alps" at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich on Sept. 11, 2019. The anime was created in Japan in the 1970s based on a novel by Swiss novelist Johanna Spyri. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese anime exhibition in Switzerland

Photo shows a sign of an exhibition featuring Japanese TV animation series "Heidi a Girl of the Alps" near the Swiss National Museum in Zurich on Sept. 11, 2019. The anime was created in Japan in the 1970s based on a novel by Swiss novelist Johanna Spyri. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prince Takamado encourages Japan

Japanese Prince Takamado, center, holding cap, encourages the Japanese World Cup squad June 16 at a practice field in the French Alps resort of Aix-les-Bains.

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Okada stresses points for Japane

apan manager Takeshi Okada stresses points to the Japanese national team in the French Alps resort of AIX-LES-BAINS prior to resuming practice June 15 for Japan's Group H World Cup match against Croatia on June 20.