Competitive Sports, Crime, and Climate Change: Japan’s Words of the Year for 2023

Higashiyama Noriyuki, at left, the new president of Smile Up, and Julie Fujishima, former president of Johnny’s and Associates, at a press conference on September 7, 2023. (© Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

Lars Nootbaar celebrates a base hit with the peppermill performance on March 11, 2023. (© Kyōdō)