It may be slightly disturbing, but a Japanese company can now print a 3D hologram of your unborn foetus. Oliver Wainwright explains.

Photograph: Pioneer

An inspector wearing a mask tries to make a baby, held by an amateur sumo wrestler, cry during the Nakizumo Festival, or crying baby contest, at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo.

Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/EPA

Amid growing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of recovery, Japan marks the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and has displaced more than 300,000.

Here in Namie, the town’s 21,000 residents had to abandon their homes after the town was evacuated. Even if most of former Namie residents still hope to go back to their homes in the future, they are only allowed to return home for a few hours to minimise radiation exposure.

See more images from Japan here: Inside Fukushima’s abandoned towns, two years on in pictures

Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

(via Japan marks tsunami anniversary | World news | guardian.co.uk)

Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko smile as they show their marriage rings at their wedding reception in Tokyo. Two lesbians have become the first gay couple to tie the knot at Tokyo Disney Resort, both wore white dresses despite an initial ruling that one had to wear men’s clothes. The event was the first gay wedding in the popular amusement park even though gay marriage has no legal standing in Japan. Photograph: Tatsunari Ueno/AFP/Getty Images

Daniel Berehulak’s photo of pine trees uprooted during the tsunami over the beach in Rikuzentakata, Japan. He won third prize in the general news stories category with the series Japan After the Wave.

From World Press Photo 2013 prizewinners – in pictures

Photograph: Daniel Berehulak

Kogoro Kurata, a Japanese designer and artist, demonstrates Kuratas, a 13ft tall robot. Kurata says the original inspiration came from wanting to bring to life the robots in films, animé, and toys of his childhood. While the current Kuratas is only a prototype, Kurata is taking orders through his website

Meanwhile in Japan: sommelier Shunji Kanaya pours 2012 Beaujolais Nouveau wine into the wine spa at the Hakone Yunessun spa resort facilities in Hakone, Kanagawa prefecture, west of Tokyo.

Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images

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Kuratas: The Japanese 13ft super-robot controlled by an iPhone

Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

This little dog is wearing a pair of shoes to keep from burning its paws on the scorching pavements of Tokyo, which is experiencing a heatwave. More pictures from the news around the globe on Tuesday 17 July in our gallery.