Amateur sumo wrestlers hold babies during “Nakizumo” or a baby-crying sumo contest, where two wrestlers hold a baby each and a referee makes faces and loud noises to make them cry and determine the winner based on the loudest baby, at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, on April 28, 2024. The ritual is believed to aid the healthy growth of the children and ward off evil spirits. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Ring assistants wear masks to scare babies held up by amateur sumo wrestlers during “Nakizumo” or a baby-crying sumo contest at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A ring assistant wears a mask to scare a baby held up by an amateur sumo wrestler during “Nakizumo” or a baby-crying sumo contest at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Babies cry as they are held up by amateur sumo wrestlers during “Nakizumo” or a baby-crying sumo contest at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A baby cries while held up by an amateur sumo wrestler during “Nakizumo” or a baby-crying sumo contest at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Babies cry while held up by amateur sumo wrestlers during “Nakizumo” or a baby-crying sumo contest at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A baby poses for the photo during the Nakizumou event at Yukigaya Hachiman Shrine on April 29, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. Nakizumou (Crying sumo) is a 400 years traditional Japanese event to pray for the health and growth of babies, and which is originating from the legend that a baby's cry wards off evil. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Tourists ride go-carts in a tour during a holiday period called, “Golden Week”, in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Golden Week is a popular time for travels, festivals and other entertaining events throughout Japan. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





Tourists take pictures from the opposite street of a convenience store with Mount Fuji on May 3, 2024, before a huge black barrier which will be installed to block Mount Fuji from view, in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi prefecture. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Tourists pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji on May 3, 2024, before a huge black barrier which will be installed to block Mount Fuji from view, in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi prefecture. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Rafting tours commence for the year on a river in the Wakayama Prefecture village of Kitayama, western Japan, during the Golden Week holidays on May 3, 2024. (Photo by Kyodo News)





People gather during the The Odawara Hojo Godai Festival at Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, Friday 3 of May, 2024 Japan. 2,000 people parade through the streets of Odawara, emulating the Hojo lords of the past in the prefecture. (Photo by Emilio Espejel/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Participants wait to fly Japan's largest kite, measuring 14.5x14.5 meters and weighing 950 kg, during the Oodako Matsuri, a giant kite festival, in Sagamihara, south of Tokyo, Japan on May 4, 2024. The annual festival has been passed down for more than a century as a form of prayer to help ensure a good harvest. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Participants fly Japan's largest kite, measuring 14.5x14.5 meters and weighing 950 kg, during the Oodako Matsuri, a giant kite festival, in Sagamihara, south of Tokyo, Japan on May 4, 2024. The annual festival has been passed down for more than a century as a form of prayer to help ensure a good harvest. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Japan’s Naoya Inoue (centre R) raises his arm as he celebrates his victory with the crowd after beating Mexico’s Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super-bantamweight title boxing match at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





The single-seater 'Hexa', a personal aircraft developed by U.S.-based company Lift Aircraft makes a demonstration flight during a showcase program titled “First Flight of Flying Cars in Tokyo” at SusHi Tech Tokyo, which stands for the Sustainable High City Tech Tokyo, at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, Japan on May 17, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Participants carry a portable shrine “mikoshi” on the second day of the annual Sanja Matsuri festival in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on May 18, 2024. Sanja Matsuri festival is a celebration for the three founders of Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa neighbourhood. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Japanese people from the Asakusa district participate in one of the most important religious processions in the capital of Japan in order to get the benevolence, blessing and prosperity of their district and its region on May 19, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Workers erect a barrier to block the view of a popular Mount Fuji photo spot, near a convenience store in Fujikawaguchiko town, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan, on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Hideki Tokoro, president of whaling company Kyodo Senpaku, boards Japan's new whaling mothership, the Kangei Maru, following the ship's launch ceremony at a port in Shimonoseki city, Yamaguchi prefecture on May 21, 2024. The nearly 9,300-tonne ship set sail on its maiden hunting voyage on May 21, heralding a new era for the controversial practice defended by the government as an integral part of national culture. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)