Japan and beyond: Week in Photos

Here is a selection of Kyodo News photos taken this week in Japan and beyond.

Young people dance in Pyongyang on Aug. 28, 2021, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Youth Day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shinichi Shimakawa of Japan falls over during the fourth period of a wheelchair rugby semifinal match against Britain at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 28, 2021, at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

People line up outside a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site in Tokyo's Shibuya area on Aug. 28, 2021, to get lottery tickets for about 300 doses to be administered that day to those aged between 16 and 39 who reside in or commute to the Japanese capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan's Koji Oyama competes in the 1/8 elimination round of the men's W1 individual archery competition against South Korea's Koo Dong Sub at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 30, 2021, at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

This composite photo shows Markus Rehm of Germany competing in the men's T64 long jump at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 1, 2021, at the National Stadium in Tokyo. He won gold. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

The season's first "drive-hunting" of dolphins and small whales begins off Taiji in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 1, 2021, in the presence of a Japan Coast Guard dinghy (front) amid criticism by animal-rights groups. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Tomomi Tozawa of Japan competes in the women's T63 long jump final at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 2, 2021, at the National Stadium in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shingo Kunieda of Japan reacts after defeating Gordon Reid of Britain in the semifinals of the men's singles wheelchair tennis event at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 2, 2021, at Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Takuya Matsunaga (2nd from L), whose wife Mana and daughter Riko were killed when a car hit them at a crosswalk in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area in April 2019, walks to the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 2, 2021. Later in the day, the court sentenced 90-year-old former top bureaucrat Kozo Iizuka to five years in prison for negligence over the car accident. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics en route to winning gold on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

A C-2 transport plane of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force returns to the Iruma Air Base in Saitama Prefecture on Sept. 3, 2021, from a mission to evacuate Japanese nationals and others from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo