Timeline for June 2023

Fujii Sōta holds a card reading “Meijin” at a press conference after winning the title of the same name in Takayama, Nagano Prefecture, on June 1, 2023. (© Jiji)

Katō Mitu and Tim Pütz hold the French Open mixed doubles trophy in Paris on June 8, 2023. (© Jiji)

Oda Tokito’s French Open win on June 10, 2023, lifted him to become the youngest ever men’s wheelchair world number one. (© Jiji)

Aoki Mikio, who was known as the “don of the upper house,” pictured at center left in January 2010. (© Jiji)

The GSDF Hino basic firing range in Gifu where the shooting took place on June 14, 2023. (© Jiji)

Indonesian President Joko Widodo drives Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako (both sitting on the right), with Indonesian First Lady Iriana behind him, from Bogor Palace to Bogor Botanical Gardens on June 19, 2023. (© Jiji)

The new banknotes will use the latest hologram technology so that the portraits appear to move in three dimensions when they are tilted. Photo taken at the National Printing Bureau’s Tokyo plant on June 28, 2023. (© Jiji)