Kyodo Photos of the Month - August 2025

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- Aug 30, 2025 - 12:16 All,Japan

A Buddhist monk jumps into Lake Biwa from a height of about 7 meters in the Shiga Prefecture city of Omihachiman, western Japan, on Aug. 1, 2025, as he completes 100 days of mountain training. The traditional ritual at Isaki-ji temple dates back about 1,300 years. (Kyodo/Kyoka Yagami)

Performers march through the streets during the Morioka Sansa dance festival in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 1, 2025. (Kyodo/Muneyoshi Someya)

Colorful lantern floats are paraded through the streets of the northeastern Japan city of Aomori on Aug. 2, 2025, the first day of the six-day Aomori Nebuta Festival. (Kyodo/Muneyoshi Someya)

People pray before the cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima at dawn on Aug. 6, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on the western Japan city. (Kyodo/Kai Naito)

Monks at Todai-ji temple in Nara sweep dust off the Great Buddha, designated as a national treasure in Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, in an annual cleaning event. (Kyodo/Kodai Hamabata)

Dancers perform during the five-day Awa Odori dance festival in Tokushima, western Japan, on Aug. 12, 2025. (Kyodo/Kai Shimada)

A 15-year-old high school student makes a deep bow towards the Imperial Palace in Tokyo from the plaza outside on Aug. 15, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo/Ichiro Banno)

Chinese soldiers practice near Beijing on Aug. 20, 2025, for a military parade scheduled for Sept. 3 in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to mark 80 years since Japan's defeat in World War II. (Kyodo/Ken Ishii)

Women in traditional kimono attire perform a dance depicting the production process of Miwa Somen, a popular noodle in summer, during a festival celebrating the end of the peak season of its production at Omiwa shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 26, 2025. (Kyodo/Tadao Fukusumi)

Candles are lit on a beach in Rumoi, Hokkaido, on Aug. 16, 2025, in memory of about 1,700 victims of the Aug. 22, 1945 sinking of three Japanese civilian transport ships by Soviet submarines off the northern Japan city a week after Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo/Junko Ozaki)

Photo taken on Aug. 28, 2025, shows the Poketomo pocket-sized AI companion, which enables personalized voice-based conversations tailored to each user, exhibited by Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. at the International Tokyo Toy Show at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center. (Kyodo/Michi Ono)

A lantern floats on a river in Tokyo in memory of over 100,000 victims killed in U.S. air raids of the capital during World War II on Aug. 15, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war. (Kyodo/Juntaro Yokoyama)

Paper cranes laid are out in front of a monument in Hiroshima on Aug. 20, 2025, the 11th anniversary of a series of landslides that claimed 77 lives in residential areas close to mountains near the western Japan city. Kyodo/Yohei Fukuyama

Here is a selection of Kyodo News photos taken in August 2025 in Japan and beyond.Paper cranes laid are out in front of a monument in Hiroshima on Aug. 20, 2025, the 11th anniversary of a series of landslides that claimed 77 lives in residential areas close to mountains near the western Japan city. (Kyodo/Yohei Fukuyama)READ FULL ARTICLE

Kyodo Photos of the Month - August 2025

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