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

July 8

People pray near the site of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination in Nara, western Japan, on its first anniversary on July 8, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
People bow to statues of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung (L) and his son and former leader Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on July 8, 2023, the 29th anniversary of the death of Kim Il Sung. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
A funeral service is held at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on July 8, 2023 -- 500 days after Russia's invasion began. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
July 9
 
Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend the opening ceremony for an international conference on automatic control systems in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 9, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Japan Sumo Association chief Hakkaku (front) delivers a speech on the opening day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament at Dolphins Arena in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on July 9, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
July 10
 
Photo taken on July 10, 2023, shows houses hit by a mudslide in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, following heavy rain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
 
 
Miyu Kato (L) of Japan and Aldila Sutjiadi of Indonesia are pictured after losing to Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic in the women's doubles third round at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London on July 10, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
July 11
 
Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels signs autographs at Major League Baseball's red carpet show ahead of the All-Star Game in Seattle on July 11, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
No. 1 maegashira Tobizaru (R) defeats lone yokozuna Terunofuji at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya, central Japan, on July 11, 2023. (Kyodo)
 
July 12
 
People offer flowers at a cenotaph on Okushiri Island off the coast of Hokkaido on July 12, 2018, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and tsunami that left a total of 230 people dead or missing in the northern Japan prefectures of Hokkaido and Aomori. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (center R) attends a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 12, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
Large screens in Osaka's Umeda area show on July 12, 2023, a news report that North Korea launched what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
July 13
 
Photo shows All Nippon Airways Co.'s check-in counters for international flights at Terminal 2 of Tokyo' Haneda airport, unveiled to the media on July 13, 2023. The Japanese airline is set to reopen the terminal's international flight facility on July 19, after a three-year closure from April 2020 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
 
 
July 14
 
A long queue forms at a cinema in Tokyo on the morning of July 14, 2023, as renowned Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animation film "Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka" (How Do You Live?) is released in Japan. (Kyodo)
 
An explosion occurs at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Noshiro Testing Center in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, on July 14, 2023, during a test of JAXA's Epsilon S rocket engine. (Kyodo)

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Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - July 1~7

Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - June 24~30

Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - June 17~23

Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - June 10~16