People make their way along a street in the Harajuku area on Friday November 04, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)





The lights from a bustling city illuminates the evening on Friday November 04, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)





People are bathed in window light as they sit on the floor at Kayaba Coffee in the Yanaka area on Saturday November 05, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)





A bride in traditional Japanese wedding attire poses for photos with her groom at the Itsukushima Shrine in Hatsukaichi, southwestern Japan April 16, 2008. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man reads on a train on Tuesday November 01, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)





People cross the road near the Shibuya Station on Friday November 04, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. The large intersection is said to be the busiest in the world. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)





People cross the street at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Taxies are parked at a taxi stand in Tokyo, Japan, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A tourist from abroad takes a photo at Akihabara shopping and amusement district in Tokyo, Japan, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A woman, dressed in a traditional Japanese kimono, holds an umbrella as she walk on a street as Typhoon Malakas approaches the region in Tokyo, Japan, September 20, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People stand to smoke at a cigarette area at a business district in Tokyo, September 15, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





A woman cycles past the new Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market, known as Toyosu market, which will take over from the famous Tsukiji market, under construction in the Toyosu district in Tokyo, Japan, September 27, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Workers are seen at the new Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market, known as Toyosu market, which will take over from the famous Tsukiji market, under construction in the Toyosu district in Tokyo, Japan, September 27, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man sleeps on a street in a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man rides a hoverboard on a street in a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A woman walks outside an electronics retail store in a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People wait for the opening of a department store in a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A woman walks outside a shop in a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People stand with their mobile phones as some play Pokemon Go at a park in Tokyo, Japan, September 30, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People cross a street in the Shinjuku district in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People cross a street in front of high-rise buildings in the Shinjuku district in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People walk through a street in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, Japan, September 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Rina Mitsutake grills a piece of beef strip at Japan's restaurant chain operator Zensho Co's Gyuan barbeque restaurant in Yokohama, south of Tokyo July 27, 2011. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)





A man looks at price lists outside a store in Tokyo, Japan, October 4, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A Chinese tourist holds a Hello Kitty rolling bag as he boards a bus in the Akihabara shopping district, in Tokyo, Japan, October 4, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A wooden sign which reads “Prime Minister Shinzo Abe” is seen on a ritual offering, a masakaki tree, from Abe to the Yasukuni Shrine, inside the main shrine as visitors pray at the controversial shrine for war dead in Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A staff member of the shrine walks at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Participants wearing surgical masks talk to each other during a masked match-making event in Tokyo, Japan, October 16, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Participants dressed as ghost cats, attend an annual ghost cat “Bakeneko” festival in Tokyo, Japan, October 16, 2016. (Photo by Miyu Ando/Reuters)





A man covers his head with a handkerchief as he makes his way in the rain at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan October 28, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A woman wearing a traditional costume stands in front of a shop window at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan October 28, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A student stops to bow to a portrait of Japanese former Emperor Hirohito and Empress Kojun at Tsukamoto kindergarten in Osaka, Japan, November 30, 2016. (Photo by Ha Kwiyeon/Reuters)





High school students enter a discount store in Tokyo's shopping district, Japan, December 1, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Chieko Shimada (L), 52, a mother of two daughters who runs a social security consulting company and her daughter Kaoruko Shimada, 19, a senior in high school who works part-time at a bakery, walk in front of a supermarket in Tokyo, Japan, November 29, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A police officer stands guard near a hot spring resort, the venue of the summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Nagato, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan, December 15, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Women in the traditional costume “kimono” visit Meiji Shrine to usher in the upcoming New Year in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Shinto priests walk to attend a ritual to usher in the upcoming New Year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Shinto priests walk past lanterns after attending a ritual to usher in the upcoming New Year at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, December 31, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A girl in kimono throws a coin into a giant offering box on the first day of the new year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People offer prayers on the first day of the new year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People make their way to offer prayers on the first day of the new year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Coins thrown by people offering prayers, into a giant offering box on the first day of the new year are pictured at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A man throws money into a giant offering box on the first day of the new year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People stand in line to offer New Year prayers at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People stand in line to offer New Year prayers at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People bathe in incense smoke on the first day of the new year at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People view live owls at, Owl's Forest which is located on the bottom floor of a building along a bustling street in the Harajuku area on Friday November 04, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. Visitors can pet owls at the business. It is located next to one of Tokyo's many cat cafes. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)





A man is seen in an office as a wall is decorated with advertising images at the Shitamachi Museum Annex in the Yanaka area on Saturday November 05, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)





Worshippers head to the altar to offer New Year prayers at the Turugaoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura, near Tokyo, Sunday, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)





People make their way along a street in the Harajuku area on Friday November 04, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)