Kyodo Photos of the Month January 2025

KYODO PHOTOS OF THE MONTH

January 2025

People pray in front of candles in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 1, 2025, exactly one year after a powerful earthquake hit central Japan's Noto Peninsula area. (Kyodo/Juntaro Yokoyama)

Japanese ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi soars through air during the third leg of the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck, Austria, on Jan. 4, 2025. (Kyodo/Yuta Omori)

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 10, 2025, shows Kinkaku-ji, or the Golden Pavilion temple, dusted with snow in Kyoto. (Kyodo)

Participants dressed in traditional costume play "kemari," a football game enjoyed by nobles during Japan's Heian period, at Shimogamo shrine in Kyoto on Jan. 4, 2025. (Kyodo/Kimio Ida)

Photo shows a bluefin tuna that fetched 207 million yen ($1.3 million) during the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025. (Kyodo/Chiaki Ueda)

Young women wearing traditional Japanese attire shoot arrows at a New Year archery event to celebrate their coming-of-age at Sanjusangendo temple in Kyoto on Jan. 12, 2025. (Kyodo/Kimio Ida)

Eleven-year-old Miku Matsushima pumps her fist as she wins a point during a second-round women's singles match during Japan's table tennis national championships in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2025. (Kyodo/Kazuki Kozaki)

Eleven-year-old Miku Matsushima reacts as she wins a point during a first-round women's singles match during Japan's table tennis national championships in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2025. (Kyodo/Kazuki Kozaki)

The burning slopes of Mt. Wakakusa and fireworks light up the sky during a traditional winter festival in Nara, western Japan, on Jan. 25, 2025. (Kyodo/Kenzaburo Fukuhara)

The Luminarie illumination event opens in Kobe on Jan. 24, 2025, in memory of the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in the western Japan city and its vicinity that killed more than 6,400 people. (Kyodo/Yuka Hamada)

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki is congratulated by the team's staff members on his way to a press conference in Seattle on Jan. 21, 2025, after becoming the first Asian player to be elected to the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame. (Kyodo/Kotaro Ohashi)

Ben Shelton of the United States plays against Lorenzo Sonego of Italy in the men's singles quarterfinals at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan. 22, 2025. (Kyodo/Michi Ono)

Undisputed super bantamweight boxing world champion Naoya Inoue of Japan throws a pinch at South Korea's Kim Ye Joon in the second round of their title match on Jan. 24, 2025, at Tokyo's Ariake Arena. (Kyodo/Kazushi Kurihara)

Monks and firefighters participate in an annual fire drill at the World Heritage-listed Horyu-ji temple in Nara Prefecture's Ikaruga on Jan. 26, 2025. Jan. 26 was designated in 1955 as a day for raising awareness about the protection of cultural assets from fire after one of Horyu-ji temple's buildings burned down on the same day in 1949. (Kyodo/Keiji Uesho)

Men in loincloths splash hot spring water at one another during Kawarayu Onsen resort's Yukake Festival in Naganohara in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Jan. 20, 2025. (Kyodo/Tomomi Akasaka)

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