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

People take part in a rally in New York on June 11, 2022, in support of gun control, following a string of deadly mass shootings, including one in Uvalde, Texas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
U.S. President Joe Biden (C) signs a bill at the White House in Washington on June 13, 2022, on a commission to study the establishment of a national museum on the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Stock falls around the world are shown on a financial data screen in Tokyo on June 14, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Costa Rica players celebrate after securing the last spot for the 2022 football World Cup finals with a 1-0 win over New Zealand in an intercontinental playoff in Al Rayyan, Qatar, on June 14, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Lupine flowers are in full bloom at Flowerland Kamifurano park in Kamifurano in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 14, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Photo taken at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 15, 2022, shows a device that displays arrival and other train information automatically converted from platform announcements and other sound data for people with impaired hearing. East Japan Railway Co. and Fujitsu Ltd. introduced the service on a trial basis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Photo taken at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 15, 2022, shows a device that displays arrival and other train information automatically converted from platform announcements and other sound data for people with impaired hearing. East Japan Railway Co. and Fujitsu Ltd. introduced the service on a trial basis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Japanese stewartias are in full bloom at the Torin-in temple garden in Kyoto on June 15, 2022. The flower blooms and falls from the tree in one day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (R) and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts are pictured at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 15, 2022, after Watanabe threw out the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

People get on a tourist boat in Shari, Hokkaido, on June 16, 2022. Three tourist boat operators based at Utoro port in the northern Japan town reopened sightseeing cruises the same day for the first time since a tourist boat operated by another company sank in April with 26 people aboard in bad weather. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photo taken June 16, 2022, shows the three-dimensional Reversi board game of MegaHouse Corp. on display at the International Tokyo Toy Show at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Photo taken on June 16, 2022, shows a sock factory in Pyongyang. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

A car drives on a mountainous sightseeing road in the Gifu Prefecture village of Shirakawa in central Japan on June 17, 2022, as the scenic road that runs through the Hakusan National Park fully reopened to traffic the same day after its wintertime closure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - June 4~10

Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - May 28~June 3

Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - May 21~27

Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - May 14~20