Pokemon Go players play near Shinjuku Gyoen National Park in Tokyo on July 27, 2016. (Photo by Tomasz Lazar/The Washington Post)





In this July 30, 2016 photo, the poster of “Shin Godzilla”, or “New Godzilla”, is displayed under the monster's head at a movie theater in Tokyo. Godzilla is back in its homeland of Japan after a 12-year absence, still breathing fire and mercilessly stomping everything in its way. The latest in the giant reptile Godzilla movies opened in Japan on July 29 and is promised for the U.S. and other countries later this year. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)





Women walk past window of a fashion boutique in a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, May 30, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A billboard advertising a car is seen in central Tokyo, Japan June 7, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A Buddhist monk (R) stands in front of a temple at Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly, in Japan June 15, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A man and his grandchild walk on the street at Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly, in Japan June 15, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Women check items at a retail shop at Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly, in Japan June 15, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A pedestrian looks at an electronic board showing the various stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, September 4, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





A shopper looks at items outside a discount store at a shopping district in Tokyo, June 18, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





A woman walks past a fashion boutique in a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, May 30, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A baby is cared for by a nurse at Futaba Baby Home in Tokyo, Japan, June 21, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Children wait for lunch at Futaba Baby Home in Tokyo, Japan, June 21, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A child plays with a nurse at Futaba Baby Home in Tokyo, Japan, June 21, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Foster mother Asako Yoshinari and her foster child are pictured at a park near her home in Inzai, Chiba prefecture, Japan, June 24, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Line characters are seen at the Line Corp's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan June 2, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A member of the Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDs) holds a placard calling on youths to vote in the July 10 upper house election, in front of a busy crossing in Shibuya district in Tokyo, Japan June 26, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Waitresses serve customers at the AKB48 cafe, which is themed after Japanese girl pop group AKB48, in Tokyo June 5, 2012. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A junction of the roads is seen in Tokyo, Japan July 19, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man takes a picture of a woman with cherry blossoms in full bloom in Tokyo March 31, 2014. Many people enjoy viewing the blossoms all over the country during this season. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Sake barrels are displayed at a hotel bar in Tokyo, Japan July 19, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





People walk on a street at Tokyo's Ginza shopping district February 15, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





A woman walks past a figure of “Mario”, a character in Nintendo's Mario Bros. video games, at a Nintendo centre in Tokyo July 29, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People walk past candidate posters for the Tokyo Governor election in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A model poses with the Yamaha Super Tenere at the 37th Tokyo Motorcycle Show March 26, 2010. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A visitor takes a selfie at the Imperial Palace before Emperor Akihito makes a rare video address to the public, in Tokyo, Japan, August 8, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A large screen shows Japanese Emperor Akihito's video address in Tokyo, Japan, August 8, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Women in Kimono holding an umbrella walk on a street at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, March 31, 2016. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





A woman bows as she enters Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two in Tokyo, Japan, August 15, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Buddhist monk Renka Haseo attends the Handsomest Monk Contest at Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Female Buddhist monk Koyu Osawa, winner of the Handsomest Monk Contest, takes part in the contest at Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Female Buddhist monk Koyu Osawa, winner of the Handsomest Monk Contest, bows to spectators as she takes part in the contest at Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A staff lies in a casket next an altar decorated with flowers and balloons as she demonstrates Okuribito funeral's funeral service at the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A staff sits in a casket next an altar decorated with flowers and balloons as she demonstrates Okuribito funeral's funeral service at the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A couple wearing Yukata, Japanese summer kimono, walks along a shopping district in Tokyo, August 26, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People play Pokemon Go at a park in Tokyo, Japan 25 July 2016. The game, released in Japan on 22 July 2016, that uses the GPS to locate the smartphone's location, has gained a huge popularity among smartphone users and added to the value of Nintendo that partly owns the franchise enterprise that makes Pokemon. Japanese government has issued a warning to use this game. The game has resulted minor bicycle and car accidents with playing the game in Japan. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA)





A Japanese policeman patrols to check security through an approach to the Inner Shrine of Ise Shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, 24 May 2016. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/EPA)





Yoko Furukawa, an employee at Nippon Yusen K.K., pushes a baby stroller during the morning commute in the Marunouchi district of Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, December 14, 2009. Japan's efforts to escape a deflationary spiral and sustain an economic recovery may hang on whether Furukawa's son finds a place in day care. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama wants to encourage working mothers such as Furukawa as a means to fuel household demand and help fund pensions and health care. The Dai-ichi Life Research Institute says a 0.6 percentage-point rise in Japan's female employment rate would boost consumer spending by 1.3 percent and increase the Nikkei 225 Stock Average by 3.2 percent. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Blomberg)





Colorful carp streamers flutter in the air over the Sagami River in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, Monday, May 5, 2014 to mark Children's Day national holiday. It is a tradition in Japan to fly carp streamers on the Children's Day. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Monks polish the wooden corridor of the walkway that connects between temple buildings at Soji-ji in Yokohama, Japan, one of the largest temples of Zen Buddhism school in the country, Tuesday, July 5, 2016. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





A girl on a baby stroller plays with Pokemon character Pikachu during a special gathering event of Pikachu at Minatomirai shopping district in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Wednesday, August 10, 2016. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)





A mother duck leading four ducklings are walking on a street in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto on June 16, 2016. The duck family moved from a pond at Yoboji temple to the Kamo River in about 700 meter distance as the rain fell. (Photo by The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images)





Women in yukata casual kimono laugh in front of orange lanterns at the Mitama Matsuri festival at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on July 16, 2016. (Photo by Yoshiaki Miura)





Police officers and teachers watch over students at an elementary school in the city of Okayama on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Photo by Kyodo News)





Passengers wait behind a platform-edge barrier at Kitashinchi Station on the Tozai Line in the city of Osaka in March 2011. (Photo by Kyodo News)





Harvesting lavender in Hokkaido, Japan shallow DOF, one farmer in center, two more in the background, on May 29, 2008. (Photo by Steffen Hetzinger/Getty Images/iStockphoto)





10-year-old female sea lion “Shakitto” uses a ladle to sprinkle water onto the pavement to cool down with a female animal trainer in yukata dress at the Aqua Park Shinagawa aquarium in Tokyo on Thursday, August 11, 2016. Tokyo's temperature soared over 32 degree Celsius. (Photo by Aflo/Splash News)





A woman clad in a kimono walks in front of a decorated construction site wall at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, 27 June 2016. Tokyo stocks rebounded after dropping sharply on 24 June following the Brexit vote. The Nikkei Stock Average gained 357.19 points, or 2.39 percent, to close at 15,309.21. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)