A woman uses a portable electric fan while strolling down the street with her friends in Tokyo, Monday, June 27, 2022. The Japanese government warned of possible power shortages Monday in the Tokyo region, asking people to conserve energy as the country endures an unusually intense heat wave. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





A biker wipes sweat off his face as he takes a break at a park in Tokyo, Monday, June 27, 2022. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





People, some of them holding parasols, cross an intersection amid heat, in Tokyo, Monday, June 27, 2022. Japan’s government issued a warning for possible power crunch in the Tokyo area Monday, asking offices and residents to save energy as the capital region is hit by sweltering heat, with weather officials announcing an earliest end to the rainy season in decades. (Photo by Yusuke Ogata/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A man uses a folding fan while riding a train in Tokyo, Monday, June 27, 2022. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





People walk over a pedestrian crossing under an intense sun Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





People take a break under a cooling mist as the Japanese government issues a warning over a possible power crunch due to a heatwave in Tokyo, Japan on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A worker makes sure matches are placed properly in the boxes of matches on an assembly line at a Nittosha factory in Himeji, Japan, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Nittosha, a small Japanese manufacturer, is stopping the production of matchbooks. The company, which employs 130 people, is a testament to the hard work and dedication at small and medium-size companies that are the backbones of large economies, including the U.S. and Japan. (Photo by Yuri Kageyama/AP Photo)





Visitors react to water canons at Yomiuriland amusement park's outdoor swimming pool WAI, on its opening day for the summer, as the region around Tokyo is set for its seventh straight day of temperatures above 35 Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) and faces a hot weekend, in Tokyo, Japan on July 1, 2022. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A girl plays at a fountain to cool off herself at a park, under the strain of Tokyo's hottest June streak since 1875, in Tokyo, Japan, June 30, 2022. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A man takes his pet African spurred tortoise called Lupin for a walk during a heatwave in Tokyo, Japan on July 3, 2022. (Photo by Masatoshi Okauchi/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Paper lanterns are placed to form the shape of the Milky Way along a staircase, during “Tanabata”, or the Star festival event at Zojoji temple in Tokyo, Japan on July 7, 2022. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





This photo shows “Yu-Gi-Oh!” manga comic and trading cards in Tokyo Thursday, July 7, 2022. Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the “Yu-Gi-Oh!” manga comic and trading card game, has died, apparently while snorkeling in southwestern Japan, the coast guard said Friday, July 8, 2022. (Photo by Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Japanese Kabuki actor Kangen Horikoshi, son of Ichikawa Ebizo XI, attends a press conference to announce his first stage as the Ichikawa Shinnosuke VIII at the Kabukiza Theatre in Tokyo on July 7, 2022. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





In this image from a video, Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, falls on the ground in Nara, western Japan Friday, July 8, 2022. Abe was shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan and was airlifted to a hospital but he was not breathing and his heart had stopped, officials said. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Tetsuya Yamagami, center, holding a weapon, is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara, western Japan Friday, July 8, 2022. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by Yamagami, a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech – an attack that stunned the nation that has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere. (Photo by Nara Shimbun/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





General view after former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was apparently shot during an election campaign for the July 10, 2022 Upper House election, in Nara, western Japan July 8, 2022. in this photo taken by Kyodo. (Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)





Police officers at the scene where Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a political event in Nara, Japan, on Friday, July 8, 2022. Abe was unresponsive after being shot during a political event on Friday, shocking a nation where gun violence is rare. (Photo by Kosuke Okahara/Bloomberg)





A Nara Police officer tries to move the media from the area where the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while delivering his speech to support the Liberal Democratic Party's candidate during an election campaign in Nara, Friday, July 8, 2022. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





Police officers at the scene where Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a political event in Nara, Japan, on Friday, July 8, 2022. Abe was unresponsive after being shot during a political event on Friday, shocking a nation where gun violence is rare. (Photo by Kosuke Okahara/Bloomberg)





Nara Police officers direct pedestrians and traffic near the scene where the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while delivering his speech to support the Liberal Democratic Party's candidate during an election campaign in Nara, Friday, July 8, 2022. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation's most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





People watch TV news reporting Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot, in Tokyo, Friday, July 8, 2022. Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan and was airlifted to a nearby hospital but he was not breathing and his heart had stopped, officials said.(Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)