Here is a selection of Kyodo News photos taken this week in Japan and beyond.
A large screen on a street in Beijing on April 8, 2023, shows a Chinese military plane participating in a three-day air and sea exercise around Taiwan that began the same day. The drill followed a meeting between Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California on April 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels puts on a samurai warrior helmet, the team's new home run celebration hat, after hitting a two-run homer in the third inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, on April 9, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Some 100 "koinobori" carp streamers fly over a river in the western Japan town of Kudoyama in Wakayama Prefecture on April 9, 2023. The windsocks will be on display through Children's Day on May 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Tulips and cherry trees bloom at Tottori Hanakairo flower park in Nambu, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on April 10, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A welcome ceremony is held for new students at the University of Tokyo at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on April 12, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Plush toy versions of Myaku-Myaku, the mascot for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, are displayed in a special booth at a Kintetsu department store in the western Japan city of Osaka on April 12, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A staff member stocks shelves with copies of renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami's new full-length novel, "The City and Its Uncertain Walls," at a bookstore in Tokyo on April 12, 2023. (Kyodo)
A long queue forms outside a bookstore in Tokyo late on the night of April 12, 2023, ahead of the release of renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami's new full-length novel, "The City and Its Uncertain Walls." (Kyodo)
Kauan Okamoto, a Japanese-Brazilian musician, attends a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 12, 2023. The former teen idol spoke as an alleged victim of sexual abuse by the late Japanese boy band mogul Johnny Kitagawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A child wears a face shield in Beijing on April 12, 2023, as a sandstorm hits the Chinese capital and sends the air pollution index soaring to the maximum level. (Kyodo)
A sandstorm darkens the sky over the Tiananmen Square in the Chinese capital Beijing on April 13, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A screen in Tokyo shows on the morning of April 13, 2023, a J-Alert message regarding a ballistic missile fired by North Korea earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Personnel of Japan's Self-Defense Forces leave a port on Irabu Island in the southern prefecture of Okinawa on the morning of April 13, 2023, to search for a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter that went missing on April 6 with 10 people aboard. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People watch doll performances carried out on colorful floats during the Spring Takayama Festival in Takayama in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu on April 14, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
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Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - April 1-7
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - March 25~31
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - March 18~24
