The opening ceremony of Festival Indonesia 2018 at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on July 29. Participants include (from left) Kesennuma Mayor Shigeru Sugawara; Rachmat Gobel, special envoy to the president of Indonesia; Iwao Horii, vice minister of foreign affairs; Indonesian Ambassador to Japan Arifin Tasrif; Megawati Soekarnoputri, the fifth president of Indonesia; Puan Maharani, coordinating minister for Indonesia's Human Development and Cultural Affairs; Anak Agung Gede Ngurah Puspayoga, minister of Cooperatives and Small & Medium Enterprises; Japan-Indonesia Association Vice President Kojiro Shiojiri; and Warih Andang Tjahjono, president of PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
The opening ceremony of Festival Indonesia 2018 at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on July 29. Participants include (from left) Kesennuma Mayor Shigeru Sugawara; Rachmat Gobel, special envoy to the president of Indonesia; Iwao Horii, vice minister of foreign affairs; Indonesian Ambassador to Japan Arifin Tasrif; Megawati Soekarnoputri, the fifth president of Indonesia; Puan Maharani, coordinating minister for Indonesia's Human Development and Cultural Affairs; Anak Agung Gede Ngurah Puspayoga, minister of Cooperatives and Small & Medium Enterprises; Japan-Indonesia Association Vice President Kojiro Shiojiri; and Warih Andang Tjahjono, president of PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia. | YOSHIAKI MIURA

From left: Ken Hayami, executive director of the Japan Committee for UNICEF; Shanelle Hall, deputy executive director of UNICEF New York's headquarters; Hiroto Izumi, special adviser to the prime minister; Kinya Seto, president and CEO of Lixil Group Corp.; and Jin Song Montesano, executive officer and senior managing director of LIXIL Group Corp. pose for a photo at a news conference announcing a partnership between UNICEF and Lixil Corp. to work together to address sanitation problems around the world at Showa Women's University, Tokyo, on July 26. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
From left: Ken Hayami, executive director of the Japan Committee for UNICEF; Shanelle Hall, deputy executive director of UNICEF New York's headquarters; Hiroto Izumi, special adviser to the prime minister; Kinya Seto, president and CEO of Lixil Group Corp.; and Jin Song Montesano, executive officer and senior managing director of LIXIL Group Corp. pose for a photo at a news conference announcing a partnership between UNICEF and Lixil Corp. to work together to address sanitation problems around the world at Showa Women's University, Tokyo, on July 26. | YOSHIAKI MIURA

Atsugi Deputy Mayor Hiromi Shimojima (left) and Guy Molloy, head coach of the New Zealand national basketball team, pose for a photograph during a reception at the Rembrandt Hotel Atsugi on July 19. | HIROKO INOUE
Atsugi Deputy Mayor Hiromi Shimojima (left) and Guy Molloy, head coach of the New Zealand national basketball team, pose for a photograph during a reception at the Rembrandt Hotel Atsugi on July 19. | HIROKO INOUE

Moroccan Ambassador Rachad Bouhlal (center) poses for a photo with Japan-Morocco Parliamentary League President Hirofumi Nakasone (left) and Masahisa Sato, state minister for foreign affairs, during a reception to celebrate the 19th anniversary of King Mohammed VI's ascension to the throne at the Palace Hotel Tokyo on July 30. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Moroccan Ambassador Rachad Bouhlal (center) poses for a photo with Japan-Morocco Parliamentary League President Hirofumi Nakasone (left) and Masahisa Sato, state minister for foreign affairs, during a reception to celebrate the 19th anniversary of King Mohammed VI's ascension to the throne at the Palace Hotel Tokyo on July 30. | YOSHIAKI MIURA