Here is a selection of Kyodo News photos taken this week in Japan and beyond.
U.S. President Joe Biden's granddaughter Maisy Biden (far L) and spouses of Group of Seven leaders watch a traditional Bugaku dance performance at Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage site on Miyajima Island in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on May 20, 2023, as part of the G-7 summit's cultural events. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People carry a portable shrine called mikoshi at the Sanja Festival near the Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo on May 20, 2023. The festival had been held in a restricted manner from 2020 to 2022 due to the coronavius pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pictured inside a vehicle as his motorcade heads to the main venue of a Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima on May 20, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (back, C) attends a Group of Seven summit session on Ukraine on May 21, 2023, the last day of the three-day event in the western Japan city of Hiroshima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida bow at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023, the final day of a three-day Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Hiroshima city officials air out books listing the names of victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city after taking them out from beneath the cenotaph for the victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 24, 2023. The officials also turned each page to check the conditions of the 123 books, which contain a total of 333,907 names, ahead of the rainy season. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A woman sits at a mass grave site in the suburbs of Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, on May 24, 2023, for the victims of a deadly earthquake that hit the region in early February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Premium melons, produced in Yubari in Hokkaido, are lined up for the first auction of the year at a wholesale market in Sapporo, the capital of the northern Japan prefecture, on May 25, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Bluefin tuna are lined up for auction following the landing of the season's first catch at a port in Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on May 25, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Police officers are on alert in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture in central Japan on May 26, 2023 following a stabbing and shooting incident a day before. Four people, including two police officers, were killed in the incident, which also saw the alleged perpetrator barricade himself in a home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
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Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - May 13~19
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - May 6-12
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - April 29~May 5
Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - April 22~28
