Sunrise and Mt. Fuji seen from a Japan Airlines' chartered flight on Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo)
A postal worker (L) in a uniform worn by Meiji-era mailmen delivers New Year's greeting cards together with a self-driving delivery robot in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Sparks fly as a swordsmith pounds heated steel with a hammer during the first sword-forging ceremony of the year at Seki Traditional Swordsmith Museum in Seki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 2, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People get on a shinkansen bullet train from a crowded platform at JR Shin-Osaka Station in western Japan on Jan. 3, 2023, as people head home after the New Year holidays. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People clad in traditional attire play "kemari," a football game played by nobles in Japan's Heian period, at Shimogamo shrine in Kyoto on Jan. 4, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken on Jan. 4, 2023, shows a humpback whale off Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Commuters wearing face masks amid COVID-19 concerns walk near JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital on Jan. 4, 2023, the first workday of the year for government offices and many companies in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Adherents of the Ikenobo school of Japanese ikebana flower arrangement participate in a ceremony to create their first floral art of the year in Kyoto on Jan. 5, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Firefighters perform traditional ladder acrobatics during a New Year event of the Tokyo Fire Department in Tokyo on Jan. 6, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A white dove decoration is seen on a Christmas tree in central Kyiv on Jan. 5, 2023, amid Russia's war in Ukraine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Commuters wearing face masks amid COVID-19 concerns walk near JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital on Jan. 4, 2023, the first workday of the year for government offices and many companies in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
