Here is a collection of photos and videos taken during New Year's celebrations around Japan and beyond.
Photo taken from a Japan Airlines special New Year's day flight on Jan. 1, 2022, shows Mt. Fuji and the year's first sunrise. (Kyodo)
Photo taken from a Japan Airlines special New Year's day flight on Jan. 1, 2022, shows Mt. Fuji and the year's first sunrise. (Kyodo)
People look at 2022's first sunrise in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Futaba, northeastern Japan, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Jan. 1, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People look at 2022's first sunrise in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Futaba, northeastern Japan, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Jan. 1, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Mail carriers depart from the Nihombashi post office in downtown Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2022, to deliver New Year's greeting cards. (Kyodo)
Revelers gather ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square thwarting off fears of the Omicron coronavirus variant on Dec. 31, 2021, in New York. (Getty/Kyodo)
A New Year's Eve celebration event is held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 31, 2021. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2022, shows a New Year event in Pyongyang. (Kyodo)
Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a New Year's ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2022, wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)
Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako (2nd from L) attend a scaled-down New Year's ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2022, wearing masks for protection against the coronavirus. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Japanese Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, is pictured after attending a scaled-down New Year's ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2022, wearing masks for protection against the coronavirus. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A New Year market of "daruma" dolls, a popular talisman of good luck, opens in Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2022. (Kyodo)
A New Year market of "daruma" dolls, a popular talisman of good luck, opens in Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
