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China: Qingdao Cat Goes Viral for Adorable “Beckoning” at Café Counter

On November 21, 2025, in Qingdao, Shandong, a tabby cat at the “One Tree Cat Life” café stood on the counter and rhythmically moved its front paws, as if politely bowing. Glancing at the camera with wide, pleading eyes, the gesture was irresistibly cute. Chinese netizens joked, “The owner couldn’t afford a Maneki-neko, so the real cat took over!” The video quickly went viral as a symbol of good luck.

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China: Siblings Bow to “Polite” Horse After Feeding It Carrot in Hebei

On September 23, 2025, in Chengde, Hebei, a boy carefully offered a carrot to a horse, and just as the animal began nodding and swaying its head, the boy mimicked the motion, bowing repeatedly. His younger sister soon joined in, copying her brother’s gestures.

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Impeached Yoon Released From Detention - Seoul

A vehicle carrying Yoon Suk-yeol arrives at the vicinity of the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2025. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released Saturday as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a court's release approval. Yoon got off a black vehicle and walked out of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of Seoul, waving hands and bowing to his supporters who were standing along the road, TV footage showed. After arriving at the presidential residence in central Seoul, the impeached leader got off the vehicle again to shake hands with his supporters. Photo by Xinhua/Yao Qilin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Impeached Yoon Released From Detention - Seoul

Yoon Suk-yeol waves to his supporters after release outside the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, South Korea, March 8, 2025. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released Saturday as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a court's release approval. Yoon got off a black vehicle and walked out of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of Seoul, waving hands and bowing to his supporters who were standing along the road, TV footage showed. After arriving at the presidential residence in central Seoul, the impeached leader got off the vehicle again to shake hands with his supporters. Photo by NEWSIS via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Impeached Yoon Released From Detention - Seoul

A vehicle carrying Yoon Suk-yeol arrives at the vicinity of the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2025. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released Saturday as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a court's release approval. Yoon got off a black vehicle and walked out of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of Seoul, waving hands and bowing to his supporters who were standing along the road, TV footage showed. After arriving at the presidential residence in central Seoul, the impeached leader got off the vehicle again to shake hands with his supporters. Photo by Xinhua/Yao Qilin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Impeached Yoon Released From Detention - Seoul

Yoon Suk-yeol waves to his supporters after release outside the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, South Korea, March 8, 2025. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released Saturday as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a court's release approval. Yoon got off a black vehicle and walked out of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of Seoul, waving hands and bowing to his supporters who were standing along the road, TV footage showed. After arriving at the presidential residence in central Seoul, the impeached leader got off the vehicle again to shake hands with his supporters. Photo by NEWSIS via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Impeached Yoon Released From Detention - Seoul

A vehicle carrying Yoon Suk-yeol arrives at the vicinity of the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2025. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released Saturday as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a court's release approval. Yoon got off a black vehicle and walked out of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of Seoul, waving hands and bowing to his supporters who were standing along the road, TV footage showed. After arriving at the presidential residence in central Seoul, the impeached leader got off the vehicle again to shake hands with his supporters. Photo by Xinhua/Yao Qilin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Impeached Yoon Released From Detention - Seoul

Yoon Suk-yeol expresses gratitude to his supporters after release outside the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, South Korea, March 8, 2025. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released Saturday as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a court's release approval. Yoon got off a black vehicle and walked out of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of Seoul, waving hands and bowing to his supporters who were standing along the road, TV footage showed. After arriving at the presidential residence in central Seoul, the impeached leader got off the vehicle again to shake hands with his supporters. Photo by NEWSIS via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Impeached Yoon Released From Detention - Seoul

Yoon Suk-yeol gestures to his supporters after release outside the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, South Korea, March 8, 2025. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released Saturday as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a court's release approval. Yoon got off a black vehicle and walked out of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, about 20 km south of Seoul, waving hands and bowing to his supporters who were standing along the road, TV footage showed. After arriving at the presidential residence in central Seoul, the impeached leader got off the vehicle again to shake hands with his supporters. Photo by NEWSIS via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese emperor in Hokkaido

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from R) and Empress Masako are greeted by Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki (bowing) after arriving at an airport in Kushiro on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Sept. 16, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Minister apologizes for remark on Fukushima nuclear soil storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L bowing) apologizes on June 23, 2014, to Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (R front) as reporters look on at the Fukushima prefectural offices for a recent remark suggesting the issue of where to store contaminated soil from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a matter of money.

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Minister apologizes for remark on Fukushima nuclear soil storage

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (bowing) apologizes on June 23, 2014, to Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato as reporters look on at the Fukushima prefectural offices for a recent remark suggesting the issue of where to store contaminated soil from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a matter of money.

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Malaysian opposition head brushes off sodomy charges

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim tells reporters in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 7, 2014, before the top court's Oct. 28-29 hearing on his appeal against a sodomy conviction that it was politically concocted and he will not seek any political asylum as it would send a bad signal of him bowing to totalitarianism.

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Katsura Bunshi wraps up name succession performances

OSAKA, Japan - Seventeen leading ''rakugo'' storytellers from across Japan gather on stage to offer well-wishing speeches for Katsura Bunshi, seen in the center bowing his head in gratitude. The event in Osaka, western Japan, marks the grand finale of a series of performances marking Bunshi's succession to the name of his renowned master in "kamigata rakugo" in July 2012 to become its sixth-generation holder.

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Security tight in Tibet

LHASA, China - A March 10, 2013, photo shows worshippers in full-body bowing ritual outside Jokhang monastery in Lhasa in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Chinese authorities have tightened security measures in the core areas of the Tibetan capital in the run-up to the fifth anniversary on March 14 of bloody ethnic riots in Lhasa that killed as many as 200 people.

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Nobel laureate Yamanaka in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka (C, bowing), a co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine, is applauded after receiving his prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf (front R) during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit village near Fukushima complex

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko (C, bowing) meet with residents living in temporary housing in the village of Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 13, 2012. The imperial couple visited the village near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to meet with the residents and inspect decontamination work.

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Emperor, empress visit village near Fukushima complex

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R, facing a man) and Empress Michiko (next to emperor, bowing) meet with residents living in temporary housing in the village of Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 13, 2012. The imperial couple visited the village near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to meet with the residents and inspect decontamination work.

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TEPCO employees apologize to Fukushima evacuees

KAWAMATA, Japan - Employees (front) of Tokyo Electric Power Co. apologize by bowing deeply on the floor on April 23, 2011, to people who had been forced to leave their homes and have been staying in an evacuation center in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, due to radiation leaks from the company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Italian paper praises Inter's Nagatomo

MILAN, Italy - Photo shows La Gazzetta dello Sporto's issue on March 7, 2011, which raves about Inter Milan's Japanese defender Yuto Nagatomo with a photo of Nagatomo bowing. He scored his first Serie A goal the previous day against Genoa in Inter's 5-2 victory.

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Toyoda apology makes headlines in Chinese newspapers

BEIJING, China - Articles about Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda's apology to Chinese consumers appear in major Chinese newspapers on March 2, 2010. The newspapers all ran pictures of Toyoda bowing deeply at a press conference on March 1.

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Hatoyamas leaves Hua Hin

HUA HIN, Thailand - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) waves before boarding a plane at Hua Hin airport in Thailand on Oct. 25, 2009. Bowing is Hatoyama's wife Miyuki. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Koizumi leaves for Moscow to talk with Putin

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi waves at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Jan. 9, with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe bowing beside him, as he leaves for Moscow to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Nepal's prime minister resigns under opposition pressure

KATHMANDU, Nepal - File photo shows Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala who resigned July 19, bowing to pressure from a long-running row with the opposition. In an address to the country, Koirala said, ''I have decided to resign to facilitate new initiatives for solving various problems facing the country.''

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Kubota apologizes to shareholders for paying off racketeers

OSAKA, Japan - An audience at the Osaka headquarters of machinery maker Kubota Corp. watches a video monitor showing senior company officials bowing in apology at the company's annual shareholders meeting June 29. The apology, broadcast live, was for the recent arrests of two racketeers accused of accepting payoffs from the company.

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Japanese parliament passes extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese House of Councillors approves a 6.79 tril. yen extra budget on Dec. 9. Photo shows Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R front) and Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa bowing to the upper house's plenary session. The bill was passed by a vote of 136 to 101. The budget has already passed through the lower house.

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HKSAR commemorates 77th anniversary of victory against Japanese aggression

STORY: HKSAR commemorates 77th anniversary of victory against Japanese aggression DATELINE: Sept. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 0:03:31 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1 various of the ceremony STORYLINE: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Saturday held an official ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The ceremony, held at Hong Kong City Hall Memorial Garden, included playing and singing China's national anthem, raising the national flag and the flag of the HKSAR, silence in mourning, and bowing in tribute. Attendees of the event included Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Leung Chun-ying, HKSAR Chief Executive John Lee, representatives of Central People's Government organizations in Hong Kong, the chief justice of HKSAR's Court of Final Appeal, former chief executives of the HKSAR, members of th

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The Quiet Man film (1952)

John Wayne Characters: Sean Thornton Film: The Quiet Man (USA 1952) Director: John Farrow 06 June 1952 Der Sieger (The Quiet Man, USA 1952, Regie: John Ford) John Wayne (in der Ringecke sitzend) / Boxer, Betreuer, Trainer, Polizisten Cops im Ring; aka: 'Die Katze mit dem roten Haar' Date: 06-Jun-52

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The Russo-Japanese War - Japanese High Command

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 - The Japanese High Command in session. Date: circa 1905

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Minatogawa Shrine at Kobe, Japan

Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan. The mian image shows Kusunoki Masashige, a 14th-century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo, taking leave of his son at Sakurai-no-Eki before heading off to war. The inset image shows the Minatogawa Shrine at Kobe, Japan. Date: 14th century

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Royal visit to Festival of Britain, South Bank, London

Scene at a royal visit to the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank, London. Here Queen Elizabeth and King George VI shake hands with, respectively, Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, while Herbert Morrison looks on (far right). Date: 4 May 1951

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MAME

MAME [US 1974] [L-R] LUCILLE BALL [centre], BEA ARTHUR, LEONARD STONE, [?] Date: 1974

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MACBETH

MACBETH [US 1948] ORSON WELLES as MacBeth [kneeling], ERSKINE SANDFORD as Duncan, RODDY MCDOWALL as Malcolm Date: 1948

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10,000 BC

10,000 BC [US / SA 2008] CAMILLA BELLE Date: 2008

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10,000 BC

10,000 BC [US / SA 2008] CAMILLA BELLE Date: 2008

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THE PINK PANTHER

THE PINK PANTHER CLAUDIA CARDINALE, DAVID NIVEN Date: 1963

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MY SONG GOES ROUND THE WORLD

MY SONG GOES ROUND THE WORLD JOSEPH SCHMIDT (left) as the singer, unlucky in love. (Making his British screen debut in this film JOSEPH SCHMIDT (1904-1942), the Romanian tenor, sometimes known as The Pocket Singer, was four foot two inches tall). MY SONG GOES ROUND THE WORLD JOSEPH SCHMIDT (left) as the singer, unlucky in love. (Making his British screen debut in this film JOSEPH SCHMIDT (1904-1942), the R Date: 1934

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Scene from North Korea

TOKYO, Japan - People bowing at Mansudae Memorial Monument in Pyongyang. The photo was taken in April 2002. (Kyodo)

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Seen from North Korea

TOKYO, Japan - People bowing at Mansudae Memorial Monument in Pyongyang. The photo was taken in April 2002. (Kyodo)

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Gov't finds fuel economy of M'bishi cars worse than advertised

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Chairman Osamu Masuko (C) receives instructions from transport minister Keiichi Ishii (L) at the ministry in Tokyo on June 21, 2016, with MMC President Tetsuro Aikawa bowing by his side. The transport ministry said it has found that the fuel economy of four minicar models produced by the automaker was up to 16 percent worse than their catalog figures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sharp apologizes for massive losses at shareholders' meet

Photo captured from a video monitor shows Sharp Corp. President Kozo Takahashi bowing in apology for the company's massive losses in the past business year during a shareholders' meeting in Osaka on June 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman bowing on phone among Verlhac's cartoons on show in Fukuoka

A cartoon of a Japanese woman bowing while speaking on a pay phone, drawn by Bernard Verlhac, a French cartoonist killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting, is among drawings on display at an exhibition that started in the city of Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on April 2, 2015. "The person on the other end of the line should be doing the same," Verlhac wrote in the cartoon drawn when he visited the region in 1992. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Samurai warriors greeting each other

The scene of samurai exchanging greetings is recreated, with the two bowing deeply in the official attire of haori coat with family crest and hakama trousers. The Western-style handrail in the back was a fixture of the Ueno Hikoma studio in Nagasaki, where this stereograph seems to have been taken by Wilhelm Burger.==Date:Middle Meiji (1883-1897), Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Wilhelm Burger, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number70‐1‐0]

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Women greeting each other

Two women are exchanging greetings in front of a tokonoma (alcove) in the main room of a large house. This portrays a very polite greeting by a woman with hair arranged in shimada style bowing deeply after being served a cup of tea. Two braziers have been placed in the room, indicating that another visitor preceded this woman.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐16‐0]

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Women greeting each other

A woman in a black haori coat with a family crest is exchanging greetings at the gate of a banquet restaurant with another woman whose seems to be a restaurant employee. Both women have arranged their hair neatly and are bowing deeply. The basho (Japanese banana plant) in the background indicates that this place is the southern part of Japan.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐21‐0]

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Women greeting each other

Women exchange greetings at a wooden gate. The woman on the right is the guest. She is holding a folded parasol, while the host has come out to the gate to greet her, bowing with her hands crossed at her lap.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐10‐0]

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The Chokugaku-mon Gate of Bunsho-in Reibyo, Zojoji Temple, Shiba

Bunshoin, the tomb of the sixth Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu. The man in the centre bowing down seems to be a samurai. The men on both sides are probably servants.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐5‐0]

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Greetings in an ozashiki (a guest room)

Guests are welcomed in a room with a tokonoma alcove, and greetings are exchanged. This is a dramatized photo of the Japanese custom of serving tea and bowing deeply.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number11‐46‐0]

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Greetings in an ozashiki (a guest room)

The English caption reads Welcome greetings for a guest in the living room . A dramatized photo of inviting a guest into the living room. Serving tea and bowing deeply in greeting is a custom particular to the Japanese.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number7‐45‐0]

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"Comfort woman" statue in Pyeongchang

Photo taken at the privately run Korea Botanic Garden in South Korea's Pyeongchang on June 19, 2021, shows statues of a girl (L) symbolizing Korean "comfort women," a euphemism for women who were made to work in Japan's wartime brothels, and a man resembling former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his knees bowing to her.