An annual water-discharge fire drill is held on Nov. 7, 2021, in Shirakawa-go, a World Heritage site famous for traditional "gassho-zukuri" thatched farmhouses in the Gifu Prefecture village of Shirakawa, central Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Combined photo taken from 1:46 p.m. to 3:01 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2021, in Tokyo shows an occultation of Venus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo shows visitors and autumn leaves at Ankoku temple in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 8, 2021. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A Christmas parade is shown to the media at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 8, 2021, a day before the start of special Christmas events at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Students who want to become emergency medical technicians train with virtual reality goggles at International Medical and Welfare College in Chiba, Japan, on Nov. 9, 2021, as on-site training has been restricted amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Elementary school students gather at a school gymnasium in Niigata on Nov. 12, 2021, to express their wish that Megumi Yokota, a 13-year-old abducted by North Korea on her way home from school in the Sea of Japan coastal city in 1977, should be returned. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
