Men dance during a fire festival to pray for people's health at Katsube shrine in Moriyama in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 14, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken on Jan. 14, 2023 shows Japanese monkeys soaking in hot spring at Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden in Hokkaido, northern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken with a 360-degree camera at a park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 16, 2023, shows lanterns arranged to spell out the Japanese word "musubu" meaning "join" during an event marking the 28th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city and its vicinity killing more than 6,000 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People pray at a park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2023, the 28th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, which struck the western Japan port city and its vicinity killing more than 6,000 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Lanterns are lit at a park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2023, the 28th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, which struck the western Japan port city and its vicinity killing more than 6,000 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A woman protests against Russian missile attacks in Dnipro, on Jan. 17, 2023, three days after a deadly Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the eastern Ukraine city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Workers clear part of the wreckage of a helicopter crash near a kindergarten in Brovary, outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on Jan. 18, 2023. More than a dozen people, including the country's interior minister, were killed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane on Jan. 18, 2023, shows the Niigata Coast Guard Office patrol boat Echigo off Kashiwazaki in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The 3,100-ton vessel was leaking oil after running aground during a patrol. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Port authorities use a boat to tow a dead sperm whale back out to sea in Osaka in western Japan on Jan. 18, 2023. The stray whale was first spotted on Jan. 9 in Osaka's Yodo River and confirmed dead later in the week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2023, shows a dead whale being sent down to the sea floor with 30-ton concrete blocks from a vessel off the Kii Peninsula, western Japan. The 15-meter-long male sperm whale, which was first sighted on Jan. 9 near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka, became progressively weaker and was confirmed dead four days later. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Serbia's Novak Djokovic plays against France's Enzo Couacaud in the second round of the men's singles at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 19, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2023, in Shimukappu, a village in northern Japan known for its cold temperatures that can fall as low as 30 C below zero, shows the inside of a dome-shaped hotel where the ceiling, walls, and furnishings such as beds and tables are all made of ice. Guests of the hotel, unveiled to the media a day before its public opening at Hoshino Resorts Tomamu, can spend the night in sleeping bags inside the dome that is 3.5 meters high and 8.5 meters wide. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
