A woman, dressed in ceremonial kimono, rides on an escalator after the New Year opening ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), held to wish for the success of Japan's stock market, in Tokyo, Japan, January 4, 2016. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





People use their mobile phones as they stand in front of a lingerie shop at a shopping district in Tokyo in this March 26, 2015 file photo. Japan is expected to release inflation data this week. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





A man clears snow from a walkway at Kanda Miyojin Shrine in Tokyo, Japan January 18, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man clears snow from a walkway at Kanda Miyojin Shrine in Tokyo, Japan January 18, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A woman in a traditional “Kimono” carries shopping bags at a shopping district in Tokyo in this May 19, 2011 file photo. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People cross a street in the shopping district of Ginza in Tokyo, Japan, February 4, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People cross a street outside a tax free department store popular among Chinese tourists in Tokyo, Japan, February 11, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Taxies park outside Tokyo station in Tokyo, Japan, February 16, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman with a baby buggy looks at items outside a discount store at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, February 25, 2016. Japan's core consumer prices were unchanged in January from a year earlier, suggesting that persistent falls in energy costs will keep inflation well below the central bank's 2 percent target. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





People sit as they rest on a street at Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly, in Tokyo in this January 14, 2015 file photo. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





An elderly woman pushes a walking aid as she walks on a street at Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly, in Tokyo in this January 14, 2015 file photo. Japan is laying the groundwork for new government spending to pre-empt any weakness in household consumption, and could set an early example after the Group of 20 nations called for more fiscal spending to help support the ailing global economy. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Japan's Mount Fuji is seen covered with snow from Nakai town, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, March 1, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Kiyoe Matsumoto, 63, a local politician who has served the town for 15 years, walks in front of a gate of her home in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, February 12, 2016. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A Buddhist monk stands in front of a shop window as he waits for donations at a shopping district in Tokyo in this May 19, 2011 file photo. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A pedestrian holding an umbrella crosses a street at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, March 7, 2016. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





A pedestrian holding an umbrella walks past a display window at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, March 7, 2016. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





People stand on a platform of the Shibuya train station as digital advertising displays illuminate a junction in central Tokyo, Japan, March 14, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Men sleep in couches in a public seating area in a department store in Tokyo, Japan, March 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A businessman walks in the Kyu-Shiba-rikyu Garden on a warm and sunny day in Tokyo, Japan, March 18, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A businessman stands at a pond in the Kyu-Shiba-rikyu Garden on a warm and sunny day in Tokyo, Japan, March 18, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman takes pictures of an early-blossoming cherry tree as Japan approaches Hanami, or cherry blossom season, in Ueno Park, Tokyo March 22, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People take pictures of an early-blossoming cherry tree as Japan approaches Hanami, or cherry blossom season, in Ueno Park, Tokyo March 22, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman looks at an early-blossoming cherry tree as Japan approaches Hanami, or cherry blossom season, in Ueno Park, Tokyo March 22, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Job seekers walk into a job fair held for fresh graduates in Tokyo, Japan, March 20, 2016. Confidence at Japanese manufacturers worsened slightly in March and is seen unlikely to change much over the next three months, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, in a sign that yen gains and slowdown in China and emerging markets are hurting exporters. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





Female job seekers look at maps of a job fair held for fresh graduates in Tokyo, Japan, March 20, 2016. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)





A woman uses her phone as she sits in front of a shop window in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, March 24, 2016. Japan's consumer inflation was flat in the year to February as low energy costs and weak consumption put a lid on price growth, keeping the central bank under pressure to top up stimulus even after easing policy less than two months ago. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman clad in a Japanese traditional “kimono” pauses during a wedding photo session by a rapeseed oil field at Hamarikyu Gardens in Tokyo, Tuesday, February 16, 2016. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Tomomi Ota pushes a trolley loaded with her humanoid robot Pepper as she crosses a street in Omotesando shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, 24 March 2016. Telecommunications and mobile phone carrier SoftBank Corp. opened a robot-staffed store where 10 Pepper humanoid robots welcome customers looking to buy a mobile phone. The store will be opened until 30 March 2016. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





People take selfies in front of a lit up Prunus pendula or Shidarezakura cherry blossom tree in full bloom at Rikugien Gardens in Tokyo, Japan, 27 March 2016. About 30,000 people visited the gardens to view the cherry blossoms, the gardens management said. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA)





Rapeseed flowers bloom in front of commercial buildings at Hama-rikyu Gardens on March 1, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. About 300,000 rapeseed flowers are in full bloom at the park located in the central district of Tokyo. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





Girls dressed in kimono gaze up at hanging hina dolls at the Bunka Koen Hina no Yakata hall in the Inatori area of Higashi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Tuesday, January 20, 2016. Ornaments decorated with the handmade dolls are traditionally displayed in the area for the March 3 celebration of Hina Matsuri, or Doll Festival, to wish for the well-being of girls. (Photo by The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images)





A man walks in front of an advertisement of cosmetic company in Tokyo, Wednesday, January 13, 2016. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Tourists take photographs of a maiko, or apprentice geisha, walking through the Gion area of Kyoto, Japan, on Thursday, May 28, 2015. (Photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg)