Reiko Maruyama (left), 71, encourages Mieko Nanba, 68, as she practices a breakdance move known as “chair freeze” during a training session with their team Ara Style Senior, Japan's only breakdancing club made up of elderly citizens, in Tokyo, Japan, on May 20, 2024. Born out of Maruyama's goal to energise the community through sports and excercise, Ara Style Senior now compromises about 15 members. “You can't help but laugh when you see yourself in these funny poses, | said the councilwoman. I think it's great that you can laugh, dance, and stay healthy, and that's why I recommend it to people around me”. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Team Ara Style Senior during a training session in Tokyo, Japan, on May 20, 2024. Ara Style Senior now comprises about 15 members whose moves are a far cry from the impossibly acrobatic feats b-boys and b-girls will perform at the Olympics. The point for Ara Style?s b-ladies, though, is to have fun and stay fit. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A woman walks her dogs very early in the morning on the street before the heat of the day sets in on June 14, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo is swept by intense heat. The Kanto region experiences the first days of summer with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, with the highest temperature in central Tokyo reaching over 30 degrees. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A woman uses an umbrella to shelter from the rain while walking on a street in Tokyo's Shinjuku district on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





A hat lies on the ground as Police officers work at the site where a car hit a passerby before causing a rollover accident, near Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida official residence, in Tokyo, Japan on June 20, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





This photo taken on June 20, 2024 shows people queueing outside a ramen noodle shop below the tracks as a Yamanote Line train (top L) pulls into Gotanda station, one of 30 stations along the JR Yamanote Line in Tokyo. In service since 1885, the Yamanote Line is Tokyo's oldest, most important and most famous, with millions cramming onto the 35-kilometre (22-mile) route's distinctive green cars every day. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





A robot makes coffee during the World Intelligence Expo in Tianjin on June 23, 2024. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





A woman walks past an election poster board displaying various candidates in the upcoming July 7 Tokyo gubernatorial election, along a street in Tokyo on June 23, 2024. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





Goldfish swim at Obimai tank during a media event of the exhibition called “Summer Art Aquarium 2024” at a department store at Ginza district of Tokyo, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Photo by Shuji Kajiyama/AP Photo)





Japan's Minoru Suzuki (front) is dragged by Japan's Sanshiro Takagi during “Toden Pro Wrestling”, the first ever pro wrestling event inside a streetcar of the Toden Arakawa Line, popularly known as the Tokyo Sakura Tram, in Tokyo on June 29, 2024. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Japan's H3 rocket No. 3 lifts off carrying an Earth observation satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 1, 2024, in this photo taken by Kyodo. (Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)





A “Dive and Walk” attraction begins at Osaka's landmark Tsutenkaku Tower on July 1, 2024. (Photo by Kyodo News)





A man takes a break under a cooling mist as the Japanese government issued a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures, in Tokyo, Japan on July 9, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A passerby holding a parasol wipes her face as she walks on the street as the Japanese government issued a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures, in Tokyo, Japan on July 9, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





An immersive digital artwork is displayed at the teamLab Planets Tokyo museum in Tokyo on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. TeamLab Planets Tokyo is recognized by Guinness World Records as the most visited museum and teamLab announced they would open an annex of the teamLab Planets Tokyo early next year. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman in yukata, or casual summer kimonos, holds an umbrella in front of lanterns during the annual Mitama Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on July 13, 2024. About 30,000 lanterns lighted up the shrine, where more than 2.4 million war dead are enshrined, during the four-day festival which begun today. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





White-robed men hold up flaming torches during an annual fire festival at the World Heritage-listed Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Nachikatsuura, western Japan, on July 14, 2024. (Photo by Kyodo News)





Sanae Kiso, 77-year-old “Ama”, a female free diver, who harvests sea life from the ocean, carries her tools after diving to collect abalones in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, Japan pn July 18, 2024. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Sanae Kiso, 77-year-old “Ama”, a female free diver, who harvests sea life from the ocean, shows an abalone which she caught in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, Japan pn July 18, 2024. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A child reacts as a family takes a break next to a cooling mist at the Sensoji temple as Japanese government issued heat stroke alerts in 39 of the country's 47 prefectures in Tokyo, Japan on July 22, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)