Here is our selection of news photos taken in Japan and beyond by Kyodo News photographers this week.

Candles are placed at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2020, a day before the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city. (Kyodo)

 

The limited express Aso Boy! arrives at Tateno Station in Minamiaso, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 8, 2020. JR Hohi Line fully resumed services the same day for the first time since the April 2016 earthquakes in Kumamoto Prefecture. (Kyodo)

 

Candles are lit at the park marking the hypocenter in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. (Kyodo)
 
 
Helicopters carrying a Singapore national flag fly over Singapore's landmark Merlion statue to mark the 55th anniversary of its independence on Aug. 9, 2020. (Kyodo)

 

People walk in Osaka, western Japan, on Aug. 10, 2020, wearing face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. The country's total coronavirus cases topped 50,000 the same day, increasing by 10,000 in just one week. (Kyodo) 

 

Japanese drum percussion group DRUM TAO performs at outdoor theater "TAO no Oka" in Taketa in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 11, 2020, ahead of the theater's official opening on Sept. 4. (Kyodo) 
 
 
Takefusa Kubo, a 19-year-old Japanese winger, attends a press conference in Villarreal, Spain, on Aug. 11, 2020, as he joined Villarreal on a one-year loan from Real Madrid. (Kyodo) 

 

Shooting stars of the Perseid meteor shower are seen above Mt. Fuji, observed from Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Prefecture on Aug. 12, 2020. (Kyodo)
 
 
People wearing face masks due to the coronavirus pandemic visit Nara Park in the western Japan prefecture amid scorching summer heat on Aug. 12, 2020. (Kyodo)

 

Kuniko Miyajima (right), who lost her 9-year-old son in the 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash, blows bubbles with children on Osutaka Ridge, the crash site in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2020, the 35th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 people. (Kyodo)

 

Parasols and tents are put up at a distance from each other at Shirahama beach in Shimoda in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, as seen from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 13, 2020. Local authorities are limiting the number of people in each 4-square-meter area to four in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection. (Kyodo)

 

A rainbow forms over Tokyo Skytree broadcasting tower and Sensoji temple in the capital following a rainstorm on Aug. 13, 2020. (Kyodo) 

 

Japanese traditional umbrellas are lit near a temple in Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, during a Bon Buddhist festival on Aug. 13, 2020. (Kyodo)
 


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