A countdown board in Nagasakis is lit up on Oct. 26, 2020, showing 88 days before the coming into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (Kyodo)
The Olympic rings are reinstalled in Tokyo Bay off Odaiba Marine Park on Dec. 1, 2020, after they were temporarily removed in August following the Tokyo Games' one-year postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo)
Members of environmental groups stage a protest near the venue of a U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP25, in Madrid on Dec. 5, 2019, calling for Japan to abolish coal-fired power generation, one of the causes of global warming. (Kyodo)
Photo taken Dec. 21, 2020, shows Emperor Naruhito (C), Empress Masako (L) and their daughter Princess Aiko. (Photo courtesy of Imperial Household Agency)(No trimming allowed)(Kyodo)
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden (L) announces retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as his choice to be secretary of defense at the Queen Theater Dec. 9, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Getty/Kyodo)
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga makes his first policy speech at parliament in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2020, since he took office in mid-September. Suga was wearing a face mask amid continued fears over the novel coronavirus at the start of the 41-day extraordinary Diet session through Dec. 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Premier Li Keqiang are pictured at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 22, 2020, the opening day of the National People's Congress. The annual parliamentary session, which usually takes place for around 10 days from March 5, was postponed this year due to the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People take a selfie in front of the Tokyo Olympic flame in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 25, 2020. The Olympics torch relay, initially set to start on March 26 from northeastern Japan areas hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, was canceled with the games postponed for about one year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Children pose next to a plate made with Lego blocks showing Japan's new era name Reiwa at the Legoland park in Nagoya on April 1, 2019, following its announcement by the government earlier in the day. The new era will begin May 1 when Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the throne to succeed his father Emperor Akihito. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II is held at Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 2020. Seen in the foreground is the Atomic Bomb Dome. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Ileana Rodriguez (front, C) poses with her colleagues on the occasion of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics in September 2016. (Photo courtesy of Ileana Rodriguez)(PHOTO NOT FOR SALE)(Kyodo)
Photo taken Sept. 9, 2019, shows One World Trade Center in the New York skyline. 1WTC was built on the site of the twin towers destroyed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Swedish teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg delivers a speech at an event in Madrid on Dec. 11, 2019, held at the venue of the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Madrid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Japanese scientist Akira Yoshino poses with his Nobel medal in chemistry after receiving it in a ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2019.(Pool Photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Nakahama elementary school in Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture is shown to the general public on Sept. 26, 2020, after conservation work was completed following the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
