Japan and beyond: Week in Photos

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

A memorial event is held in Taipei on June 4, 2022, the 33rd anniversary of the military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie waves upon his return to Shin Nishinomiya Yacht Harbor in Nishinomiya, western Japan, on June 4, 2022. The 83-year-old became the world's oldest person to make a solo, nonstop 8,500-kilometer voyage across the Pacific on a yacht. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels fails to steal second base in the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies on June 4, 2022, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shingo Kunieda of Japan celebrates with the victor's trophy after winning the men's wheelchair singles final against Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on June 4, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

People take photos during their visit to a square in Kyiv, where destroyed Russian tanks and armored vehicles have been put on display, on June 5, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

People gather at a square in Kyiv, where destroyed Russian tanks and armored vehicles have been put on display, on June 5, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Children play on a destroyed Russian tank at a square in Kyiv on June 5, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Wild monkeys are spotted on a road in Katsurao, a northeastern Japan village near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on June 5, 2022. An evacuation order placed in the village soon after the March 2011 nuclear crisis is scheduled to be lifted partially on June 12. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan supporters cheer in the stands before an international friendly against Brazil being held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on June 6, 2022, as a warm-up for the World Cup finals that begin in November in Qatar. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese boxer Naoya Inoue reacts after his second-round technical knockout of Nonito Donaire of the Philippines to unify the WBA, WBC and IBF bantamweight titles on June 7, 2022, at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hydrangea flowers are lit up at Mimuroto temple in Uji in Kyoto on June 9, 2022, ahead of the start of a nighttime special light-up for the public on June 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo