Japan and beyond: Week in Photos

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

Fireworks light up the night sky in the Akita Prefecture city of Daisen, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 27, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photo taken at a media center in Tunis on Aug. 27, 2022, shows Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (on screen) virtually speaking at the opening ceremony of the two-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development in the Tunisian capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Malaysia's Aaron Chia (front) and Soh Wooi Yik play en route beating Indonesia's Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the men's doubles final at the world badminton championships in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Malaysia's Aaron Chia (L) and Soh Wooi Yik celebrate after beating Indonesia's Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the men's doubles final at the world badminton championships in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies during an aviation festival at the ASDF base in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Higashimatsushima, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 28, 2022, following a two-year suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Candles are lit in front of JR Futaba Station in Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 29, 2022, as the northeastern Japan town hosting the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant prepares for the lifting at the midnight of an evacuation order imposed on the area due to high radiation levels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photo taken on Aug. 30, 2022, shows houses in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Futaba, northeastern Japan, that co-hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. An evacuation order was partially lifted allowing the return of residents to the town at midnight Aug. 29, about 11 and a half years after the March 2011 nuclear crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photo taken Aug. 30, 2022, shows the Shikisai-no-oka flower garden in Biei, Hokkaido, northern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

The Dutch-themed Huis Ten Bosch seaside resort is pictured in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan, on Aug. 30, 2022. Japanese travel agency H.I.S. Co. said the same day it will sell its entire stake in the resort to Hong Kong private equity firm PAG for 66.6 billion yen ($480 million). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

People celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan on Aug. 31, 2022, in Kabul. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

People stage a protest in front of the main gate of Japan's parliament building in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2022, against the state paying for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's funeral. The public is split over the state funeral scheduled for Sept. 27, given Abe's divisive political legacy and scandals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sandbags are seen outside a store in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 2, 2022, as powerful typhoon Hinnamnor bears down on the main island of the southern Japan prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo