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Tenjin festival in Osaka

Fireworks light up the night sky on July 25, 2025, during the "Funatogyo" boat procession, the highlight of the annual Tenjin festival, with about 100 boats cruising the Okawa River in the western Japan city of Osaka.

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Tenjin festival in Osaka

Fireworks light up the night sky on July 25, 2025, during the "Funatogyo" boat procession, the highlight of the annual Tenjin festival, with about 100 boats cruising the Okawa River in the western Japan city of Osaka.

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Summer Davos begins in China

Chinese Premier Li Qiang (on screen) makes a speech during the World Economic Forum's second largest annual meeting, known as the Summer Davos, in Tianjin, China, on June 25, 2025. About 1,700 people from political and business communities in about 90 countries took part in the three-day Meeting of the New Champions that started the previous day.

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10th anniversary of megaquake in Nepal

A memorial ceremony for the victims of a massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015 is held in Kathmandu on April 25, 2025, the 10th anniversary of the magnitude 7.8 quake that claimed lives of about 9,000 people.

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10th anniversary of megaquake in Nepal

A memorial ceremony for the victims of a massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015 is held in Kathmandu on April 25, 2025, the 10th anniversary of the magnitude 7.8 quake that claimed lives of about 9,000 people.

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10th anniversary of megaquake in Nepal

Photos featuring Nepal's reconstruction efforts are on display in Patan on April 25, 2025, the 10th anniversary of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that claimed lives of about 9,000 people.

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10th anniversary of megaquake in Nepal

Equipment used for rescue operations after a massive earthquake in Nepal in 2015 is on display in Patan on April 25, 2025, the 10th anniversary of the magnitude 7.8 quake that claimed lives of about 9,000 people.

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Icefall festival in Hokkaido

An icefall festival begins in Kamikawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Jan. 25, 2025. The annual event, featuring about 30 ice sculptures lit up in various colors, will run through March 9.

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Summer Davos in China

Photo taken on June 25, 2024, shows the venue for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian in Liaoning Province, China. Known as the Summer Davos, the three-day event, beginning the same day, is expected to attract about 1,600 people from around the world.

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Summer Davos in China

Photo taken on June 25, 2024, shows the venue for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian in Liaoning Province, China. Known as the Summer Davos, the three-day event, beginning the same day, is expected to attract about 1,600 people from around the world.

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Japan Emperor, Empress

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are given a tour around Sankyu With, a company with about 70 employees with disabilities, in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on April 25, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Chickens briefly escape in Kumamoto Pref.

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo shows cases containing chickens on a sidewalk in the town of Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2014, some of about 200 cases that fell from a moving truck earlier in the day. After receiving calls that chickens were walking around on the streets, police officers and transportation business operators searched and caught the chickens that escaped from the cases that had fallen and broken.

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Renovation of Hirosaki Castle

AOMORI, Japan - Water removal begins Nov. 25, 2014, from the moat surrounding the central tower of Hirosaki Castle in the city of Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, ahead of a planned landfill of a moat area to repair the stone wall. The city government has decided to rebuild part of the wall, the first such work in about 100 years, after the discovery of a bulge, a sign of potential collapse, with the work expected to complete by the end of March 2024.

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Shosoin treasure house reopens to public in Nara

NARA, Japan - The Shosoin treasure house reopens to the public in the ancient capital of Nara, western Japan, on Oct. 25, 2014, following the completion of its first repair in about 100 years.

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70th anniv. of 1st suicide attack by Japan during WWII

MABALACAT CITY, Philippines - The Goma Fire Ritual, an ancient Buddhist prayer ritual that involves the burning of a thick bush, is held during a ceremony praying for world peace in Mabalacat City north of Manila on Oct. 25, 2014, the 70th anniversary of the first suicide air attack deployed by Japanese forces against U.S. warships during World War II. Mabalacat is where an airfield was located where, on Oct. 25, 1944, Lt. Yukio Seki led the first "kamikaze" attack fleet against U.S. warships in Leyte Gulf. About 150 Japanese and Filipinos attended the ceremony.

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70th anniv. of 1st suicide attack by Japan during WWII

MABALACAT CITY, Philippines - File photo taken in October 1944 shows a Japanese "kamikaze" attack airplane taking off from the Mabalacat airfield in the Philippines. A ceremony praying for world peace was held in Mabalacat City north of Manila on Oct. 25, 2014, the 70th anniversary of the first suicide air attack deployed by Japanese forces against U.S. warships during World War II. About 150 Japanese and Filipinos attended the ceremony.

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British fundraiser reaches tsunami-hit Japan school

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Dominic Farwell-Cooke, a British fundraiser, visits Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 25, 2014, reaching the finish line of his epic motorcycle trip from Britain to Japan in aid of orphans from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. At the school, about three-fourths of the students and most teachers died or remain unaccounted for in the wake of the disaster.

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Fireworks at Tenjin festival in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Fireworks decorate the night sky in Osaka, western Japan, during the "Funatogyo" boat procession with about 100 boats cruising on July 25, 2014, which is the main event of the Tenjin summer festival.

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Fireworks decorate Osaka sky at Tenjin festival

OSAKA, Japan - Fireworks decorate the night sky in Osaka, western Japan, during the "Funatogyo" boat procession with about 100 boats cruising on July 25, 2014. "Funatogyo" is the main ceremony of the Tenjin summer festival.

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Ornamental square watermelon shipments begin in Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Ornamental watermelons known for their unusual square shape are inspected before being shipped on June 25, 2014, in Zentsuji in western Japan's Kagawa Prefecture. The watermelons, which gain their cube shape from being grown in plastic containers, are priced at about 10,000 yen a piece at department stores and fruit stores.

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Syria arms disposal

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Japanese Ambassador to the Netherlands Masaru Tsuji (L) and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Director General Ahmet Uzumcu shake hands at the OPCW headquarters in the Hague, the Netherlands, on Feb. 25, 2014. They exchanged documents on the Japanese government's offer of 1.4 billion yen (about $13.69 million) to a fund to cover the costs of chemical stockpile disposal, said to be the largest contribution to the fund so far.

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Tourists on ice-breaking cruise ship off Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Tourists aboard the ice-breaking cruise ship "Aurora" watch drift ice as the vessel makes its way through the frozen surface of the Okhotsk Sea, about 200 meters off Abashiri, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Feb. 25, 2014, as photographed from a Kyodo News helicopter.

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Cruise ships navigate through drift ice off Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Two ice-breaking cruise ships navigate through drift ice in the Okhotsk Sea, about 200 meters off Abashiri, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Feb. 25, 2014, as photographed from a Kyodo News helicopter.

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Cruise ship moves through drift ice off Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - The ice-breaking cruise ship "Aurora" moves through drift ice in the Okhotsk Sea, about 200 meters off Abashiri, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Feb. 25, 2014, as photographed from a Kyodo News helicopter.

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Demonstration in Greece

ATHENS, Greece - About 10,000 demonstrators protesting Greece's ultra-rightist Golden Dawn party march in Athens on Sept. 25, 2013. The rally followed the fatal stabbing of a rapper known for his anti-racist stance by a supporter of the party.

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Beetle Cabriolet

TOKYO, Japan - Volkswagen Group Japan K.K. President Shigeru Shoji stands beside The Beetle Cabriolet, a convertible-type Beetle car whose folding roof can be raised or lowered in about 10 seconds, in Tokyo on March 25, 2013. The Japanese marketing arm of the German automaker launched the car the same day.

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Japan's 1st halal food trade fair

FUKUOKA, Japan - Muslims view a halal food trade fair in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 25, 2013. The event showcased about 40 items such as processed foods, condiments, confectionery and spices made in Japan according to Islamic Law.

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Japan's 1st halal food trade fair

FUKUOKA, Japan - Muslims view a halal food trade fair in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 25, 2013. The event showcased about 40 items such as processed foods, condiments, confectionery and spices made in Japan according to Islamic Law.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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Hankyu's Umeda flagship branch

OSAKA, Japan - The exterior of Hankyu's flagship department store in Umeda, central Osaka, which opened about 80 percent of its retail space on Oct. 25, 2012, ahead of a full post-renovation reopening set for Nov. 21.

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Hankyu's Umeda flagship branch

OSAKA, Japan - Many customers enter as Hankyu department store opened about 80 percent of the retail space in its Umeda flagship branch in central Osaka on Oct. 25, 2012, ahead of a full post-renovation reopening set for Nov. 21.

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Hankyu's Umeda flagship branch

OSAKA, Japan - Many customers enter as Hankyu department store opened about 80 percent of the retail space in its Umeda flagship branch in central Osaka on Oct. 25, 2012, ahead of a full post-renovation reopening set for Nov. 21.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on March 25, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Candles lit for people of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Parents and children enjoy the beauty of candle light at Fukushima Race Course in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 25, 2012. About 20,000 candles were lit, with messages of encouragement written on their holders by people from throughout Japan, during an event to encourage the people of Fukushima Prefecture, who are still suffering from the damage wrecked by the nuclear crisis following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Candles lit for people of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Children enjoy the beauty of candle light at Fukushima Race Course in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 25, 2012. About 20,000 candles were lit, with messages of encouragement written on their holders by people from throughout Japan, during an event to encourage the people of Fukushima Prefecture, who are still suffering from the damage wrecked by the nuclear crisis following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japanese adventurer to start for solo trek to North Pole

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Yasunaga Ogita poses in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Jan. 25, 2012. In March 2012, Ogita plans to begin an unassisted solo trek of about 800 kilometers across Arctic ice from Ward Hunt Island in northern Canada to the North Pole.

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Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a ceremony including kin of Japanese soldiers who perished in the World War II battle on Iwoto Island offer flowers to commemorate them on the island on Jan. 25, 2012. The annual ceremony by the Tokyo metropolitan government is usually held in spring or summer but the fiscal 2011 ceremony was postponed due to a water shortage on the Pacific island, about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo, and the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - Kin of soldiers who perished in World War II look down at the landscape of Iwoto Island from Mt. Suribachi on Jan. 25, 2012. About 50 people attended an annual ceremony held the same day by the Tokyo metropolitan government on the island to commemorate the war dead. About 20,000 Japanese soldiers died in the WWII battle on the Pacific island about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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Astronaut Hoshide at Tsukuba Space Center

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (R) explains about a device used to release small satellites from the International Space Station at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 25, 2012. Hoshide is scheduled to stay on the ISS for about six months from late May 2012 for his mission.

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A-bomb surviving bonsai from Hiroshima

KYOTO, Japan - A man marvels at a bonsai tree which survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at an exhibition in Kyoto on Nov. 25, 2011. It was the public debut of the black pine tree, estimated to be 300-400 years old, which was placed at about 2.5 kilometers from the hypocenter of the atomic blast on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Ceremony ahead of Yakushiji pagoda renovation

NARA, Japan - A wooden plate is brought out from the east pagoda of Yakushiji, a Buddhist temple listed as a World Heritage site in Japan's ancient capital of Nara, during a ceremony on June 25, 2011, ahead of the pagoda's renovation this summer. About 4,000 people gathered to watch the ceremony.

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Intensive search for tsunami victims in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces search for victims of the March 11 tsunami in a flooded area around Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 25, 2011. About 70 percent of the students at the school were killed by the tsunami or remain missing.

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Sorry, grandpa

SASEBO, Japan - A scarecrow resembling an abandoned human skeleton forms part of a piece commenting on cases in which families were unaware of, or hid, the deaths of elderly relatives, in some cases to unlawfully claim their pensions, on Sept. 25, 2010. In the foreground is a sign reading, ''Are you there, grandpa...? Sorry about being unaware for 30 years.'' About 100 scarecrows have been displayed for the annual ''Onigigo Tanada Matsuri'' festival in rice paddies in the town of Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Harvard professor Sandel at University of Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Sandel, a professor at Harvard University, lectures on bioethics and income gaps to about 1,000 students at the University of Tokyo in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2010. His open-classroom course Justice, discussing such issues as equality and democracy, is one of the most popular courses in Harvard's history.

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Top managers ordered to pay for employee's death from overwork

KYOTO, Japan - Satoru Fukiage (L) and his wife Takako, whose son Motoyasu died in 2007 while employed at an outlet of major restaurant chain Nihonkai Shoya, speaks to reporters in Kyoto, on May 25, 2010, after the Kyoto District Court recognized their son as having died of overwork and ordered Nihonkai Shoya and its four top managers to pay them about 78.6 million yen in damages. The court's decision was the first to find the top management of a major business corporation liable to pay damages in a suit involving the death from overwork of an employee.

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Civilians riding oxcart, walking through Tokyo during wartime

TOKYO, Japan - Survivors of the May 25, 1945 air raids by B-29 bombers on Tokyo are seen walking and riding an oxcart through scorched Tokyo. The attack was the second deadliest after the March 10, 1945 air raids on the capital in which about 100,000 were killed. The photo was taken in Tokyo on May 30, 1945.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - A rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station is held in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. About 90,000 people took part in the event, according to the organizer.