Ukraine crisis

Ukraine crisis

A volunteer (L) distributes confections to children in a room set up at Lviv train station in western Ukraine on March 11, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of the country.

Women making tea

Women making tea

An elderly woman is being greeted on both sides by two younger women in a room with an alcove. The scroll is a painting of the nanga (southern school of Chinese painting), and plum blossoms are arranged in a vase. A box of tea ceremony confections tied with a red and white mizuhiki paper string is visible in front.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐38‐0]

Women smoking at a teahouse

Women smoking at a teahouse

Two women are relaxing at a tea house where cherry petals are falling. The woman on the left is smoking a kiseru pipe. Between them is a teapot, teacups and confections. The woman on the right has one of the confections in her hand.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐23‐0]

Japan's virus-fighting Amabie goblin

Japan's virus-fighting Amabie goblin

Photo taken April 28, 2020, shows confections featuring a Japanese goblin called Amabie, sold at a confectionery in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. The confectionery is selling a snack themed on Amabie, often used as an amulet against diseases, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan's virus-fighting Amabie goblin

Japan's virus-fighting Amabie goblin

Photo taken April 28, 2020, shows confections featuring a Japanese goblin called Amabie, sold at a confectionery in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. The confectionery is selling a snack themed on Amabie, often used as an amulet against diseases, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan's virus-fighting Amabie goblin

Japan's virus-fighting Amabie goblin

Photo taken April 28, 2020, shows confections featuring a Japanese goblin called Amabie, sold at a confectionery in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. The confectionery is selling a snack themed on Amabie, often used as an amulet against diseases, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

National Confectionary Expo begins in Mie, Japan

National Confectionary Expo begins in Mie, Japan

Visitors view packages of famous confections from across Japan on sale at the 27th National Confectionary Exposition in Ise, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on April 21, 2017, the first day of the event that runs through May 14. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo