People wait for consultation after receiving doses of the coronavirus vaccine at the players' locker room of Japanese professional soccer club Vissel Kobe inside Noevir Stadium Kobe, currently acting as a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination center, in Kobe, Japan on June 12, 2021. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Workers place a mask on a 57 meters tall Buddhist goddess statue to pray for the end of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at Houkokuji Aizu Betsuin in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in this handout photo taken on June 15 2021. (Photo by Houkokuji Aizu Betsuin/Handout via Reuters)





This handout photograph taken on June 23, 2021 and released by the Tokyo Zoological Park Society shows a staff member handling one of the newly-born twin cubs delivered by giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Park. (Photo by Handout/Tokyo Zoological Park Society/AFP Photo)





A group of anti-Olympic activists takes part in a protest outside the metropolitan government building to mark the 30 days before the Olympic Games opening ceremonies, in Tokyo on June 23, 2021. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, center, stands by a remotely-controlled guide robot at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Monday, June 28, 2021. Suga inspected antigen testing for arrivals and vowed to ensure appropriate border controls as growing numbers of Olympic and Paralympic participants enter Japan ahead of the July 23 opening of the games (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





In this photo taken and provided by Satoru Watanabe, a road is covered by mud and debris following heavy rain in Atami city, Shizuoka prefecture, Saturday, July 3, 2021. A powerful mudslide carrying a deluge of black water and debris crashed into rows of houses in the same city, west of Tokyo following heavy rains on Saturday, leaving multiple people missing, officials said.(Photo by Satoru Watanabe via AP Photo)





The full moon is pictured over a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan on June 24, 2021. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)





Torch relay runners attend a torch kiss event after their relay on a public road was cancelled due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, during Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay celebration at Hasunuma Seaside Park in Sammu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, July 1, 2021. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





People go about their business as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is broadcasted live on a screen during a new conference on Japan's current response to the coronavirus Thursday, June 17, 2021, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





In this June 14, 2021, file photo, a flight attendant of Japan Airlines takes Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine shot at their office in Haneda Airport as the airline company began its workplace vaccination, in Tokyo. After months of delays due to political and bureaucratic bungling as well as a shortage of vaccines, inoculations in Japan are taking off, and the drive is now racing down to the wire with the Olympics starting in one month. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo/File)





The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department conducts a security drill to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics on June 22, 2021, in Yumenoshima in Tokyo. (Photo by Kyodo News via Action Press)





Women take a selfie photograph with the Tokyo Olympic stadium in the background on June 9, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo authorities reported 440 new coronavirus cases today with 57 people remaining hospitalised with severe symptoms. The Japanese capital remains in an extended state of emergency until June 20th as the country grapples with a fourth wave of Covid-19. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)





A man wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus rides a bicycle at an intersection Friday, June 25, 2021, in Tokyo. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 560 new coronavirus cases on Friday. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Visitors take masks off to take pictures as hydrangea flowers are fully blooming at Meigetsu-in Buddhist temple Friday, June 11, 2021, in Kamakura, south of Tokyo. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





A staff member interacts with an ovoid at the artwork “Moss Garden of Resonating Microcosms – Solidified Light Color, Sunrise and Sunset” by Japanese creative group teamLab presented during a press preview at the “teamLab Planets” in Tokyo, Japan, 29 June 2021. The interactive digital art museum presented its new “Garden Area” with a three-dimensional floating flower garden and ovoids displayed in a moss garden. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





Pikachu mascots are seen during the unveiling of new Pokemon-themed livery on a Skymark Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda international airport on June 21, 2021. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP Photo)





People take part in a rally organised by an activist group to support the LGBT legislation in Shibuya district of Tokyo on June 6, 2021. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





A teamLab staff member works inside the “Floating Flower Garden”, which consists of a three-dimensional mass of flowers, at teamLab Planets in Tokyo, Japan, June 3, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A reporter looks at the buildings which will host the athletes during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, during a media tour of the Olympic Village in Tokyo on June 20, 2021. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)





A view of the skyline and buildings at Shinjuku district during sunset in Tokyo, Japan on June 20, 2021. (Photo by Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters)