People bow to statues of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung (L) and his son and former leader Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on July 8, 2023, the 29th anniversary of the death of Kim Il Sung. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
A funeral service is held at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on July 8, 2023 -- 500 days after Russia's invasion began. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
July 9
Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend the opening ceremony for an international conference on automatic control systems in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 9, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
People offer flowers at a cenotaph on Okushiri Island off the coast of Hokkaido on July 12, 2018, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and tsunami that left a total of 230 people dead or missing in the northern Japan prefectures of Hokkaido and Aomori. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Photo shows All Nippon Airways Co.'s check-in counters for international flights at Terminal 2 of Tokyo' Haneda airport, unveiled to the media on July 13, 2023. The Japanese airline is set to reopen the terminal's international flight facility on July 19, after a three-year closure from April 2020 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
July 14