The Grand Sumo Tournament, which was attended by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, at Ryogoku Kokugikan National Sumo Arena in Tokyo, on day one of their visit to Japan on Friday, September 19, 2025. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





Members of the public walk around the wooden viewing ring at Osaka Expo 2025 which was visited by The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh on day four of the royal trip to Japan on Monday, September 22, 2025. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





A staff member interacts with artwork during a preview of the new museum “teamLab Biovortex Kyoto” in Kyoto, western Japan, 24 September 2025. Art collective teamLab will open to the public its new permanent art museum, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, on 07 October 2025. The facility will be teamLab's largest museum in Japan, featuring more than 50 artworks. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





Participants compete to do nothing during the Space-out competition at World Expo 2025 on September 27, 2025 in Osaka, Japan. For 90 minutes, participants sat in silence, trying to remain in a dazed state without distraction. The winner was determined not by activity but by calmness maintaining the most stable heart rate amid the lively crowds of the Osaka Expo site. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





A fleet of boats including the sacred vessel carrying the deity heads toward Kounominato Port on October 1, 2025 in Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





A woman wearing yukata, or casual summer kimono, takes a photo of her pet dog in Tokyo, Japan on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Shinto priests line up before attending a purification ritual during the annual autumn festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 17 October 2025. Earlier in the day, the outgoing Japanese prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, made a “masakaki” offering at the start of the three-day autumn festival. Some 2.5 million Japanese soldiers who died while in military service are enshrined at Yasukuni. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





Tourists take pictures as cloud-clad Mount Fuji is seen in the background from Oishi park in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi prefecture on October 18, 2025. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





A competitor bangs his head during square log rolling (Kiba no kakunori) in Kiba Park as part of the Koto-ku Folk Performing Arts Festival in Tokyo, Japan on October 18, 2025. (Photo by Mark Edward Harris/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Sanae Takaichi (C) walks before signing a policy agreement with Japan Innovation Party (JIP) leader Hirofumi Yoshimura at the Diet in Tokyo on October 20, 2025. Japan's ruling LDP and its junior partner signed a coalition deal on October 20, paving the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country's first woman premier. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





About 40,000 kochia carpet Hitachi Seaside Park, a popular tourist destination in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on October 22, 2025. (Photo by Kyodo/Newscom/Avalon)





Participants carry large torches during the Kurama Fire Festival on October 22, 2025 in Kyoto, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





Mt. Fuji with its first snow on October 23, 2025 in the border area between Yamanashi and Shizuoka, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





People look at Mount Fuji, covered with its first snow of the season in Fujikawaguchiko, Japan on October 23, 2025. (Photo by Kyodo News/Reuters)





A television camera broadcasts Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's speech at the House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on October 24, 2025. Japan's new prime minister Sanae Takaichi said on October 24 she would try to achieve the country's target of spending two percent of GDP on defence two years early. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





In this aerial image, the H3 Launch Vehicle No.7 (H3-7) lifts off from the launch pad at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tanegashima Space Center on October 26, 2025 in Minamitane, Kagoshima, Japan. New unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft1 (HTV-X1) is successfully thrown into the orbit, transporting supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





Water is sprayed during a fire drill over the World Heritage village of Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, 26 October 2025. The annual drill is conducted to prepare for fires before the winter. (Photo by Jiji Press/EPA)





Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) and US President Donald Trump attend a signing ceremony after a Japan-US Summit at the Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo on October 28, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP Photo)





Police officers remove an anti-Trump protester near Akasaka Palace State Guest House, on the day U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in Tokyo, Japan, on October 28, 2025. (Photo by Manami Yamada/Reuters)





Names of Kabuki actors are written on wooden signboards in the rounded Kanteiryu style on November 7, 2025 in Kyoto, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)