Here is a collection of photos and videos taken during New Year's celebrations around Japan and beyond.

Photo taken Jan. 1, 2023, shows Mt. Fuji and the year's first sunrise. (Kyodo)

Sunrise and Mt. Fuji seen from a Japan Airlines' chartered flight on Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo)

People look at 2023's first sunrise in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Futaba, northeastern Japan, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo)

Mail carriers depart from the Nihombashi post office in downtown Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2023, to deliver New Year's greeting cards. (Kyodo)

Postal workers in uniform worn by Meiji-era mailmen deliver New Year's greeting cards together with delivery robot in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo)

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a New Year's ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2023, wearing masks for protection against the coronavirus. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

(Pool photo) (Kyodo)
Princess Aiko and Princess Kako. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)
 
A New Year market of "daruma" dolls, a popular talisman of good luck, opens in Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo)
 
A New Year market of "daruma" dolls, a popular talisman of good luck, opens in Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo)

Citizens pray at a church in Kyiv on Dec. 31, 2022, amid continued Russian missile attacks. (Kyodo)

Photo taken on Dec. 31, 2022, shows pictures of people killed in Russia's invasion of Ukraine posted on the wall of a church in Kyiv. (Kyodo)

Students dance at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang during a New Year's Eve event on Dec. 31, 2022. (Kyodo)

North Korean citizens visit Mansu Hill in Pyongyang to offer flowers on New Year's Day on Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo)

 
People gather at Tiananmen Square to watch a flag-raising ceremony to celebrate New Year's Day on Jan. 1, 2023 in Beijing. (VCG/Getty/Kyodo)

People gather to celebrate the new year in London on Jan. 1, 2023. (Anadolu Agency/Getty/Kyodo)

People gather to celebrate the new year at Times Square in New York on Dec. 31, 2022. (Anadolu Agency/Getty/Kyodo)

People celebrate New Year during a countdown event on New York's Times Square in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo)