In a slow-shutter-speed photo, people walk through Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Friday, July 4, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Demonstrators take part in a “protest rave” against racism and nationalist party Sanseito ahead of the upper house election scheduled on July 20, in the Shinkuku district of Tokyo, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





A woman in yukata, or casual summer kimono, poses to take a photo between paper lanterns during the annual Mitama Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine, where more than 2.4 million war dead are enshrined, in Tokyo, Japan on July 13, 2025. (Photo by Manami Yamada/Reuters)





Shrine parishioners hold big flaming torches to purify the path for portable shrines during the Ogi Matsuri Festival, aka Kumano Nachi Fire Festival at Kumamo Nachi Taisha Shrine on July 14, 2025 in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama, Japan. The festival is originated 1,500 years ago. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





South Korean barber “V” gives a model a haircut during the World Barber Classic at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on July 14, 2025. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Members of Nakasu Nagare run with float called “Yamakasa” during the 'Oiyama' race through Seido Street (Sacred Way) of Kushidajinja Shrine during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025 in Fukuoka, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





Pyrotechnicians hold bamboo cylinders containing fireworks as they perform “Tezutsu Hanabi” or hand held fireworks during the Toyohashi Gion Festival at the Yoshida Shrine on July 18, 2025 in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. The firework has 460 years history in the central Japanese region. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





A visitor poses for a photo at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, on July 18, 2025. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Election officials count votes at a ballot counting centre for Japan's upper house election in Tokyo, Japan, on July 20, 2025. (Photo by Manami Yamada/Reuters)





Shigeru Ishiba, Japanese Prime Minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), places a red paper rose on the name of an elected candidate at the LDP headquarters, on the day of Upper House election, in Tokyo, Japan on July 20, 2025. (Photo by Franck Robichon/Pool vta Reuters)





Pedestrians walk in front of an election notice board displaying posters of candidates in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, July 20, 2025. The outlook for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba looks bleak should his ruling coalition fail to hold on to a majority in Sunday's upper house election. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Bloomberg)





Supporters of Japan's Sanseito party leader react during the party’s rally in Tokyo, Japan, a day after the upper house election on July 21, 2025. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





4 Toy poodles are pictured at a sunflower installation in Tokyo, Japan, 24 July 2025. Temperatures are surging across Japan, with a high of 39.4 degrees Celsius recorded in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival in Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo, on Sunday, July 27, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





“Kanabo‑san”, costumed children who lead the procession, rest during a procession at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, before they proceed into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Shinto priests attend the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A woman lies down on July 30, 2025 at an evacuation tower in Kushiro, Hokkaido, northern Japan, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. (Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)