Here is a selection of Kyodo News photos taken this week in Japan and beyond.
Runners in the Tokyo Marathon set off from the metropolitan government building on March 6, 2022. Ordinary people were taking part in the marathon for the first time in three years as the event was limited to elite runners in March 2020 and canceled in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People gather at Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on March 6, 2022, to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Pets are seen in a basket near a bus evacuating people from Lviv, western Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion on March 8, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Flowers are distributed to girls on a street in Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 8, 2022, in celebration of International Women's Day amid the Russian invasion of the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People gather near the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan, on March 8, 2022, to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with lit candles reading "NO WAR NO NUKES." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Ukrainian athletes participating in the Beijing Winter Paralympics raise their fists in protest over Russia's invasion of their country during a rally at the athletes' village in Zhangjiakou, China, on March 10, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press during a visit to the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on March 10, 2022. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Japanese lawmakers wear helmets at the end of a lower house plenary session in Tokyo on March 10, 2022, as they conduct a disaster drill on the eve of 11th anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
About 600 lanterns are lit at a memorial event in Iwanuma, a Miyagi Prefecture city hard hit by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, on March 10, 2022, on the eve of its 11th anniversary. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A couple pray on a beach in the Arahama district of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2022, the 11th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated the country's northeast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
The monument to the "Miracle Pine," the only tree that survived in a coastal forest flattened by the deadly tsunami in March 2011 in northeastern Japan, is pictured in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 11, 2022, the 11th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated the country's northeast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Related coverage:
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - Feb 26~March 4
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - February 19~25
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - February 12~18
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - February 5~11
