These kaleidoscopic images showcase the sheer beauty of the mammoth firework displays held across Japan every summer. The Japanese word for fireworks, hanabi, means fire flower, and each year, local governments in Japan throw around 7,000 festivals, or hanabi taikai. Here: Tsuchiura National Fireworks Competition, Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Igari/Caters News Agency)

Australia's Rhiannon Clarke reacts in the rain after the women's T38 400-meters final at Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Saturday, September 4, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)

Japanese football fan during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group E match between Japan and Costa Rica at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on November 27, 2022 in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Dylan Martinez/Reuters)

France's Ian Jason is tackled by Japan's Mei Ohtani during the first day of the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament in Hong Kong, Friday, March 31, 2023. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/AP Photo)

“Slow”. A calm cow in the messy streets of Jodhpur. Photo location: India. (Photo and caption by Matthias Troeger/National Geographic Photo Contest)

A man crosses Canal Street in the wind and rain from Hurricane Isaac August 29, 2012. (Photo by David J. Phillip/Associated Press)

People use a board to travel on a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Baghdad, Iraq, October 31 2015. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)

A homeless man rests on the side of a street at the old quarter of Yemen's capital Sanaa November 27, 2015. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)