EditorialFrom left, Madou Fall, Joseph Oxley, Delano Sampson, Tajma Desir and Gary Warren attend the opening of the new Hermès flagship store in Manhattan, Sept. 29, 2022. (Landon Nordeman/The New York Times)
EditorialSayoko Takahashi returns home after feeding the red-crowned cranes in her backyard on the island of Hokkaido, in Kushiro, Japan, March 1, 2022. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialHealth care workers at the Daisen Rehabilitation Hospital in Houki, Japan, collect used adult diapers to be recycled into pellets on Oct. 7, 2021. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialStores in Tokyo that have been shuttered because of the pandemic. The weak economy and the country’s Covid response have eroded the popularity of the Liberal Democrats. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialMakoto Inoue at Ocho Taqueria, the restaurant he borrowed heavily to open in 2018, near the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Aug. 6, 2021. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
Editorial Part of a roughly 245-mile sea wall, designed to protect against future tsunamis, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on March 4, 2021. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialA home sits abandoned, surrounded by felled trees, in Namie, a town in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, March 4, 2021. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialJoe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during a campaign rally at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park in Philadelphia, Nov. 1, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialFranklin Delano Roosevelt School in New York, opens its doors to students who wish to receive school breakfast and lunch, on April 27, 2020. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)