Participants show off their writings during a New Year calligraphy contest in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2019. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A prospective buyer inspects the quality of a fresh tuna before the first auction of the year at the newly opened Toyosu Market, new site of Tokyo's fish market, in Tokyo Saturday, January 5, 2019. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Some 300 office workers in the Marunouchi area in Santa Claus costumes marching for the Marunouchi Christmas Parade on the illuminated Nakadori street in Tokyo's Marunouchi business district on December 21, 2018. (Photo by Aflo/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





In this picture taken on November 15, 2017, Japanese tattoo artist Noriyuki Katsuta, a member of “Save Tattooing in Japan”, displays his tattoos as he poses for a photo at his studio in Tokyo. Tattoos still provoke deep-rooted suspicion in Japan as the country prepares to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. People with body ink are refused entry to public swimming pools, bathing spots, beaches and often gyms, while visible body art can be harmful to job prospects. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)





In this picture taken on October 28, 2017, former Japanese p*rn star Mana Izumi checks her new tattoo at a tattoo studio in Tsurugashima, Saitama prefecture. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)





Kimono-clad employees of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and models pose for photographers in front of stock price boards after a ceremony marking the start of this year's trading in Tokyo Friday, January 4, 2019. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





In this picture taken on December 7, 2018 a deer is seen at Nara park in Nara, Japan. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)





Photographers on ladders stand by outside the Tokyo Detention Centerbwhere former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn and former another executive Greg Kelly are being detained in Tokyo Friday, December 21, 2018. Japanese prosecutors added a new allegation of breach of trust against Ghosn on Friday, dashing his hopes for posting bail. (Photo by Shuji Kajiyama/AP Photo)





Fifteen-year-old sea lion “Leo” uses a brush to write the Chinese characters for wild boar in preparation for the upcoming new year, during a ceremony for assembled journalists and park visitors, at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, December 26, 2018. The Lunar New Year will be celebrated across much of Asia and the world in early February 2019 and this year will mark the Year of the Pig. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





“Yokozuna” or sumo grand champion Hakuho of Mongolia takes part in a traditional ring-entering ceremony at Meiji shrine in Tokyo on January 8, 2019. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP Photo)





A woman holds a traditional fox mask to have her photo taken at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan. December 31, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A boy throws a coin as he offers prayers on the first day of the new year at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2019. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People observe a partial solar eclipse at Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo, Japan, January 6, 2019. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, December 26, 2018. Asian markets were mostly lower on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said that there was “nothing new” in efforts to end the partial government shutdown over a U.S.-Mexico border wall. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)





Kiyomura Corp. owner Kiyoshi Kimura, left, stands near the bluefin tuna which he made a wining bid at the annual New Year auction, in Tokyo Saturday, January 5, 2019. The 612-pound (278-kilogram) bluefin tuna sold for a record 333.6 million yen ($3 million) in the first auction of 2019, after Tokyo's famed Tsukiji market was moved to a new site on the city's waterfront. (Photo by Koki Sengoku/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Journalists film a 278kg bluefin tuna, priced with a 333,600,000 yen bid is pictured in front of sushi restaurants Sushi Zanmai in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2019. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Kiyoshi Kimura (C), President of Japanese sushi chain Sushi-Zanmai, prepares to cut his 278 kilogram Bluefin tuna fish during the New Year 2019 first auction of the Toyosu Market at his head restaurant at Tsukiji in Tokyo, Japan, 05 January 2019. Kimura offered 333,600,000 Japanese yen, around 2.7 million euros, for the tuna on the Toyosu market, thus paying a new maximum price. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA/EFE)





President Kiyoshi Kimora and staff of Japanese sushi chain Sushi-Zanmai cut a piece of the 278 kilogram Bluefin tuna fish during the New Year 2019 first auction of the Toyosu Market at his head restaurant at Tsukiji in Tokyo, Japan, 05 January 2019. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA/EFE)





Members of the Edo Firemen Preservation Association perform Japanese traditional firefighting techniques during the New Year's fire brigades exercise in Tokyo on January 6, 2019. About 2,800 firefighters took part in the annual drill. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





People clean up the Reclining Buddha with bamboos at Nanzoin Temple on December 26, 2018 in Sasaguri, Japan. 200 monks and parishioners attend the annual event. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)