Visitors walk amid smoke from joss sticks at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Thursday. Read
Participants chant slogans demanding an official apology and criticizing the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's human rights report for omitting the Anti-Discrimination Law proposed by the Human Rights Network Baram, near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday. This was the 1,641st regular Wednesday rally… Read
Princess Aiko, daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, visits Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Tuesday. It was her first solo trip outside of Tokyo. Read
Wireless translator earphones in the shape of the mushroom-shaped chocolate snack Kinoko no Yama, sold as Chocorooms in the United States, will hit the shelves this week. Only 3,500 units of the devices, which can translate 74 languages alongside having conventional earphone functions such as enabling users to listen to… Read
Tents set up on a baseball field in Nanao in Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sunday for use as accommodation by volunteers helping to clean up following a strong earthquake on Jan 1. Read
Miyabi Onitsuka of Japan competes during the Snowboard Slopestyle Worldcup finals, on Corvatsch mountain in Silvaplana, Switzerland, on Saturday. Read
Children react to a display in the shape of poop, decorated with a cherry blossom theme, at the Unko ("poop" in Japanese) Museum in Tokyo on Friday. Read
A view shows derelict hotels and hot spring inns abandoned after the bubble economy burst in the early 1990s, along the Kinugawa River at Kinugawa Onsen, a hot-spring resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, this week. Read
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, of Japan, perform their pairs short program at the figure skating world championships in Montreal, Canada, on Wednesday. See story here. Read
Sima Bahous, left, executive director of U.N. Women, speaks near Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, seated closest to flags, as they attend a Women, Peace and Security symposium at the Permanent Mission of Japan, Monday, in New York. Read