People rowing boats enjoy night view of cherry blossoms in full bloom on Chidorigafuchi moat in Tokyo, Japan. March 30, 2015.
TIME Picks the Top 100 Photos of 2015
2015 has been a year dominated by the migrant and refugee crisis in Europe, as thousands of people from Iraqi, Syria and Afghanistan, among many other nations, fled their homes. They left behind war, poverty and persecution in hope of better lives on European shores. The heart-wrenching images that emanated from Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Hungary, Croatia and France were not the only ones to convey people’s desperation in face of adversity. In Southeast Asia, Rohingya migrants were forced to drift in Thai waters in search for a nation willing to rescue them.
