Window cleaners, dressed as a rooster, this year's Chinese zodiac animal and a dog, next year's Chinese zodiac animal, pose for photographers as they clean the windows of Ryumeikan hotel during a promotional event to celebrate the upcoming new year in Tokyo, Japan December 20, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Four Link Systems, Inc's fully electric foldable vehicle “Earth-1” which was designed by Kunio Okawara, famous in Japan as the artist behind the long-running wildly popular robot anime “Gundam”, changes its form in Tokyo, Japan on December 28, 2017. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man and a boy look at a lion dance after they offer prayers on the first day of the new year at a shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2018. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Women, dressed in ceremonial kimonos, smile in front of an electronic board displaying the Nikkei average (top in R) as they pose after the ceremony which kicks off the first day of trading in 2018 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo, Japan January 4, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People offer prayers on the first business day of the year at the Kanda Myojin shrine, which is known to be frequented by worshippers seeking good luck and prosperous business, in Tokyo, Japan, January 4, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Mongolian-born grand sumo champion Yokozuna Kakuryu performs the New Year's ring-entering rite at the annual celebration for the New Year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan January 9, 2018. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Men splash themselves with cold water during the annual cold water endurance ceremony, to purify their souls and wish for good fortune in the new year, at the Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo, Japan January 13, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





SEED Solutions' platform robot SEED-Noid picks up tea leaf from a tea tree during its demonstration at Robot Development & Application Expo in Tokyo, Japan on January 17, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A man holding an umbrella makes his way in the heavy snow nearby the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan January 22, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A man rides a bicycle in the heavy snow in Tokyo, Japan January 22, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A man takes a picture at a park in Tokyo, Japan, January 23, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A woman and her baby make their way on a snow-covered sidewalk in Tokyo, Japan, January 23, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Android robots are seen at the reception desk of Henn na Hotel Tokyo Ginza in Tokyo, Japan on January 26, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A teen rock band performs outside Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on November 10, 2017. (Photo by Michael Walsh/Yahoo News)





Performer Kenta, right, poses with foreign tourist in magnifying glass box at Tokyo's Asakusa district, Tuesday, November 28, 2017. Asakusa is a popular tourist district in the capital. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)





Marunouchi shop clerks and workers wearing Santa Claus costumes join a Christmas parade at the Marunouchi shopping district in Tokyo on December 22, 2017. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP Photo)





Firefighters are covered with soot as they operate on the site where a fire broke out in a building at Shibuya Center-gai Shopping Street in Tokyo, Japan, 31 December 2017. According to latest media reports, one man has been rescued but other people are feared to have been trapped. Shibuya is known for being a young people fashion center and a large countdown event is scheduled on New Year's Eve. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





In this November 21, 2017, file photo, a visitor walks under the colorful autumn leaves in Hibiya park in Tokyo. The public park is located in the heart of the capital. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)





A foreign tourist wearing a traditional Japanese kimono takes a photo in front of the colorful autumn leaves at a park in Tokyo, Monday, December 4, 2017. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)





Streets are crowded by tourists and shoppers near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Friday, December 29, 2017. Tsukiji fish market is crowded by shoppers who look for ingredients for “osechi” or Japanese traditional New Year dishes. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





In this picture taken on January 14, 2018, Sky Brown does a roll in as she drops from the top of a bus with her name sprayed on it in Takanabe town, Miyazaki prefecture. Nine-year-old Sky Brown has set her sights on Tokyo 2020, when the hipster sport makes its Olympic bow, along with surfing, karate and sports climbing. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)





Residents in fox makeup participate in the Oji Fox parade to thank the outgoing and welcome the incoming year at the Oji Inari shrine in Tokyo late on December 31, 2017. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP Photo)





Visitors wearing traditional Japanese kimonos walk under the colorful autumn leaves at Enkakuji Buddhist temple in Kamakura, west of Tokyo, Thursday, November 23, 2017. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)