Images: Timeline for October 2016

Takahashi Yukimi—the mother of Takahashi Matsuri, an employee at advertising giant Dentsu who committed suicide last year—holds a press conference in Tokyo on October 7, 2016, after the death is ruled to have been the result of overwork. The Tokyo Labor Bureau raided Dentsu on October 14 in connection with the case. (© Jiji)

Gymnast Uchimura Kōhei (foreground) and other athletes wave to spectators as they pass through central Tokyo on October 7, 2016. (© Jiji)

The PlayStation VR on display at September’s Tokyo Game Show. (© Nagasaka Yoshiki)

Ichō Kaori receives the People’s Honor Award shield from Prime Minister Abe Shinzō in Tokyo on October 20, 2016. (© Jiji)

Tabei Junko at the summit of Mount Everest on May 16, 1975. (© Yomiuri Shimbun/Aflo)

The new Nintendo Switch hybrid console. (Photograph from Nintendo press release)

A white-walled storehouse, a local tourist attraction, shows signs of earthquake damage in Kurayoshi on October 22, 2016, a day after the quake. (© Jiji)

Kitano Takeshi (right) with Jack Lang, France’s former minister of culture at the Legion of Honor ceremony in Paris on October 25, 2016. (© Jiji)

The original 176 emoji. (Shigetaka Kurita, NTT Docomo. Emoji [original set of 176]. 1998–99. Software and digital image files. Gift of NTT Docomo Inc., Japan)