Japan and beyond: Week in Photos – May 4-10
Source: – Kyodo News+
Here is a selection of Kyodo News photos taken this week in Japan and beyond.
May 4
A rare Biwa trout, out of 250,000 trout fry hatched in the fall of 2022 at a fish farm in Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, is cobalt blue-colored. (Kyodo)
Horses ridden by local young men charge up a slope at Tado Taisha shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, during a traditional festival to pray for good harvest. The ritual dates back hundreds of years, but this year, the organizers removed a 2-meter-high earthen wall obstacle that the horses had been made to jump over and also made the slope less steep to lessen the burden on the horses following complaints of animal abuse. (Kyodo)
Infants take part in a “crying baby” sumo contest at Mikumano shrine in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture. (Kyodo)
May 5
Some 550 blue “koinobori” carp streamers collected from across the country fly in Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture on Children’s Day in Japan — in memory of children killed in the March 2011 quake and tsunami that devastated the region. (Kyodo)
May 6
May 7
May 8
Marseille-born rapper Jul transfers the Paris Olympic flame to a cauldron after it arrives in the southern French city from Greece. (Kyodo)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats some cantaloupe melon from Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, during a meeting with the city’s mayor at his office in Tokyo. (Kyodo)
May 9
May 10
A memorial service is held for giant panda Tan Tan at Oji Zoo in the western Japan city of Kobe. Japan’s oldest giant panda, she died at 28 at the end of March 2024. (Kyodo)
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