Dancers holding "hanagasa" straw hats adorned with flowers fill the streets during the traditional Yamagata Hanagasa Festival in Yamagata, northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)
The annual World Cosplay Summit is held in Nagoya, with cosplayers parading down the Osu shopping street and posing for photos at the Osu Kannon temple. (Kyodo)
Monks and others clean the Great Buddha at Todai-ji temple in Nara during an annual "ominugui" cleaning event. (Kyodo)
Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura and Myaku-Myaku, the mascot for the 2025 World Exposition, show off a commemorative 1,000 yen silver coin for the expo during a ceremony marking the coin's first minting. (Kyodo)
Wet and windy weather hit Miyazaki as Typhoon Khanun approaches southwestern Japan. (Kyodo)
Former Japan captain Maya Yoshida is introduced at a press conference in Carson near Los Angeles after signing a one-and-a-half-year contract through the end of the 2024 season with U.S. Major League Soccer team LA Galaxy. (Kyodo)
People visit Peace Park in Nagasaki on the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city. (Kyodo)
Japan's Hinako Shibuno gears up for the Women's British Open at Walton Heath Golf Club in Tadworth, England. (Kyodo)
Takuya Yokota, head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, speaks during a Japanese government-sponsored "summit" of junior high school students in Tokyo. Yokota is a younger brother of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 aged 13. (Kyodo)
Golden Mask constituting the top part of Tower of the Sun built for the Osaka world exposition in 1970 is unveiled at a ceremony marking the completion of the facility displaying it permanently at Expo '70 Commemorative Park in the Osaka Prefecture city of Suita. (Kyodo)
Japan's women's football team exit the World Cup with a 2-1 loss to Sweden following a nail-biting finish to their quarterfinal at Auckland's Eden Park. (Kyodo)
A shinkansen platform at JR Shin-Osaka Station is crowded as people head back to their hometowns during the Obon summer holiday period. (Kyodo)
