Residents are rescued following a flood in their street in Tanushimarumachi in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture, on July 10, 2023, after heavy rains hit wide areas of Kyushu island. One person was killed and hundreds of thousands were urged to evacuate their homes in southwestern Japan on July 10, as forecasters warned of the “heaviest rain ever” in the region. (Photo by JIJI Press/AFP Photo)





A person watches a TV showing a news program on North Korea's missile launch Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Tokyo. North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters Wednesday, its neighbors said, two days after the North threatened “shocking” consequences to protest what it called a provocative U.S. reconnaissance activity near its territory. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Men in loincloths stand in front of a resturant in Fukuoka, Japan on July 13, 2023. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters)





Men dressed in traditional happi carry a Yamakasa float through the streets during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa or Summer Festival on July 12, 2023 in Fukuoka, Japan. The festival, which has been going on for nearly 800 years, is happening the same time as the World Swimming Championships, which starts on July 14. (Photo by Michael Heiman/Getty Images)





Visitors enjoy the display of lanterns during the annual Mitama Festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan on July 13, 2023. Over 20,000 lanterns are displayed along the entrance and inside the shrine to help spirits find their way during the annual celebration for the spirits of ancestors. The festival runs until July 16. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)





A woman takes a picture of a movie poster for Oscar-winning Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's film “How Do You Live?” (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru Ka?) outside a movie theatre in Tokyo, Japan on July 14, 2023. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Smoke rises following the explosion of a rocket engine during a test in Noshiro City, Akita Prefecture, Japan, July 14, 2023, in this screengrab taken from a handout video. (Photo by NVS-LIVE.COM/Handout via Reuters)





Shrine parishioners hold big flaming torches to purify the path for portable shrines during Kumano Nachi Fire Festival on July 14, 2023 in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama, Japan. The festival, held on July 14 every year, originated 1,500 years ago (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





A man cools off in a public water playground at a park in eastern Tokyo on July 16, 2023, as temperatures in the mid-30s Centigrade (mid to upper 90s F) baked the nation's capital. Japan issued heatstroke alerts on July 16 to tens of millions of people as near-record high temperatures scorched swathes of the country, while torrential rain pummelled other regions. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





Pedestrians cool off in water mist during heatwave conditions in Tokyo on July 18, 2023. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





Various insects on a plate are pictured at Take-Noko cafe in Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2023. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Shunnosuke Suga eats beetle larvae, as he eats Almond tofu with beetle larvae at Take-Noko cafe in Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2023. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Almond tofu with beetle larvae is pictured at Take-Noko cafe in Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2023. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Japanese police officers patrol a train station after a man was arrested at the station in Izumisano, south of Osaka, western Japan, Monday, July 24, 2023, following an emergency call of a knife attack on a train. Japanese police said Monday that they have arrested a man on suspicion of slashing multiple people on a train in western Japan. (Photo by Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A person rings a bell along traditional dance music as people gather for a “Bon Odori” summer dance festival, a reminder of the gratefulness of their ancestors, Friday, July 28, 2023, in Tokyo. The dance and firework festivals around the country resumed for the first time in four years due to the pandemic. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





Visitors at a shopping district in the Ueno area of Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, July 30, 2023. A study issued last week showed the population of Japanese nationals fell in all 47 of the country's prefectures for the first time since complete data has been tracked. (Photo by Shoko Takayasu/Bloomberg)





Geiko and Maiko are seen after greeting to their dance and tea masters on August 1, 2023 in Kyoto, Japan. Hassaku, August first in old Japanese lunar calendar, when geiko and maiko visit the teahouses, teachers of Japanese traditional dance and music instruments to express their gratitude for support and beg the favour in the future. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





Japanese professional wrestler Hiromu Takahashi attends a promotional event of a dinosaur show “Dino Safari Gigant” in Tokyo on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. A dinosaur show using dinosaur shaped mrchanical suits will be performed in Yokohama from August 10. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A tree lies uprooted on a street in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on August 2, 2023, as typhoon Khanun, the sixth of the season, batters the southern Japanese island prefecture, (Photo by Kyodo News vía AP Photo)





A tv screen shows news report on the approaching typhoon, in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, August 4, 2023. Residents of Japan's southwestern islands were warned of high winds and rain through the weekend once a nearly stationary Typhoon Khanun starts moving east later Friday. (Photo by Shuji Kajiyama/AP Photo)