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The IFA consumer technology fair opens to the public in Berlin on Sept. 2, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Powerful typhoon Hinnamnor may…

Sunflowers are in full bloom in a field near Kyiv on Aug. 6, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Nagasaki to urge nuclear abolition as city…

A giant float is paraded during the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage-listed Karatsu Kunchi festival in Karatsu in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 3, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the…

A 20-meter-tall Christmas tree is illuminated with about 150,000 LED lights in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 1, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected…

Candles are lit at a park in the western Japan city of Hiroshima near the site of 2014 mudslides that claimed 77 lives, on Aug. 20, 2022, the eighth anniversary of the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the…

The four-day Awa dance festival begins in Tokushima, western Japan, on Aug. 12, 2022, the first time in three years that the traditional festival has had spectators in the outdoor stands amid the coronavirus…

Illuminated autumn leaves are reflected on the surface of a pond, creating an enchanting "upside-down maple" effect, at Sogi Park in Toki, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 21, 2023. (Kyodo) The following is…