Here is a selection of Kyodo News photos taken this week in Japan and beyond.
A total of 579,658 paper cranes created by children and connected via a string are certified by Guinness World Records as the longest chain of connected origami cranes as they are measured at 15.58 kilometers at an event in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Sept. 24, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People on Sept. 24, 2022, in Los Angeles, look at a roster listing over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II after being considered "enemy aliens" in the United States. The list was completed 80 years after the signing of an Executive Order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942, two months after Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, which authorized the U.S. military to evict residents in specific areas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Elementary school pupils and their parents pull a rope to tow a Boeing 767 aircraft, 55 meters long and weighing about 100 tons, at Narita airport near Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Japan goalkeeper Daniel Schmidt saves a penalty from Enner Valencia of Ecuador during the second half of an international friendly held in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Sept. 27, 2022, as a warmup ahead of the World Cup finals in Qatar starting in late November. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris signs her name on an "ema" prayer plaque with "enduring friendship between the Japanese and American people" written on it when she visits Tokyo's Zojoji temple after attending the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sept. 27, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken at Tokyo's Zojoji temple on Sept. 27, 2022, shows an "ema" prayer plaque (C) signed by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris during a visit the same day. Harris signed her name on the plaque that has "enduring friendship between the Japanese and American people" written on it after attending the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
The state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is held at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2022. Abe was fatally shot during upper house election campaigning in Nara, western Japan, in July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People gather in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Sept. 27, 2022, to protest against the state funeral of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
TV screens at an electric appliance store in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka show the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe being broadcast on Sept. 27, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A German Air Force Eurofighter jet arrives at Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri Air Base in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Sept. 28, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Two-time figure skating Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu (front row, C) poses for a photo during a celebratory event held in Tokyo exactly 50 years to the day since the normalization of Japan-China diplomatic relations on Sept. 29, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A ceremony marking exactly 50 years since the normalization of Japan-China diplomatic relations is held at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Sept. 29, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
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Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - Sept. 17~23
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - Sept. 10~16
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - Sept. 3~9
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - Aug. 27~Sept. 2
