U.S. Marine Corps personnel take part in a joint drill with Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force at an exercise ground in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Oita on Feb. 18, 2023. The drill from Feb. 16 to March 12 is designed to train for the defense of Japan's remote islands. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Balloons decorate a devastated downtown area of Antakya, southern Turkey, on Feb. 19, 2023. A local non-governmental organization put them up as a "last gift" to children who became victims of an earthquake disaster that hit the country and neighboring Syria earlier in the month. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken on Feb, 20, 2023, shows a manhole cover with an illustration of Maetel, a lead character in Japanese cartoonist Leiji Matsumoto's famous "Galaxy Express 999" comic series, in the Fukuoka prefectural city of Kitakyushu, his hometown in southwestern Japan. Matsumoto died of acute heart failure on Feb. 13, 2023, at age 85. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Panda-shaped steamed buns are sold at an Ito-Yokado supermarket store in Chengdu in Sichuan Province on Feb. 22, 2023, marking the arrival of Japanese-born giant panda Xiang Xiang in the Chinese province from Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
(From L) Princess Kako, her mother Crown Princess Kiko, her father Crown Prince Fumihito, Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko wave to well-wishers during the emperor's 63rd birthday celebration at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo taken on Feb, 20, 2023, shows a manhole cover with an illustration of Maetel, a lead character in Japanese cartoonist Leiji Matsumoto's famous "Galaxy Express 999" comic series, in the Fukuoka prefectural city of Kitakyushu, his hometown in southwestern Japan. Matsumoto died of acute heart failure on Feb. 13, 2023, at age 85. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
