A white-eye bird perches on a branch of early-flowering Ookanzakura cherry blossoms in full bloom at Ueno Park in Tokyo, Japan on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A Buddhist monk walks over smouldering coals barefoot at the fire-walking festival, called Hiwatari Matsuri in Japanese, at Mt.Takao in Tokyo, Japan, on March 10, 2024. Over 1,000 worshipers walk barefoot with Buddhist monks over coals at the annual festival, praying for their safety and peace in the world, according to the organiser Takao-san Yakuo-in Buddhist temple. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





In this picture taken on March 10, 2024, women take selfies in front of a plum tree at Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)





People take photos of a Godzilla statue which is installed to promote the film “Godzilla Minus One” after the movie won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects during the Oscars show at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, in Tokyo, Japan, March 11, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A man offers a flower bouquet at a beach for his friend who lost his life by the tsunami on the 13th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2024 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Japan observe the 13th anniversary of the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdowns in which almost 16,000 were killed and hundreds of thousands made homeless. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





A woman takes pictures with the Kawazu cherry blossom trees, one of the earliest blooming cherry blossoms in Japan, in Tokyo's Sumida district on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Japan's Space One's small, solid-fueled Kairos rocket lifts off before it explodes, shortly after the launch at Space One's launching pad on the tip of Kii peninsula in Kushimoto town, Wakayama prefecture, Japan on March 13, 2024, in this photo taken by Kyodo. (Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)





A model displays a creation from apparel brand “FAF” by Japanese designer Kazuho Arai for the autumn/winter collection during the Tokyo Fashion Week in Tokyo on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





A model displays a creation from the mister it. 2024 A/W collection by Japanese designer Takuya Isagawa during the Tokyo Fashion Week in Tokyo on March 15, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)





People take part in a St. Patrick's Day parade in Tokyo on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)





People walk past an advertisement with a picture of Major League Baseball (MLB) baseball star Shohei Ohtani, who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers, in Tokyo on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)





A general view shows Japan's highest mountain, Mt. Fuji (3,776m or 12,388 feet) and skyscrapers in Tokyo's Shinjuku area at sunset on March 18, 2024. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





Pedestrians are reflected on a curved mirror next to Japan’s national flag in a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan on March 19, 2024. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Pedestrians make their way in strong wind in Tokyo, Japan on March 19, 2024. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Japan's Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako (2nd L) bow as they pay their respects at the site where a large-scale fire broke out on New Year's Day following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the area, in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture on March 22, 2024. (Photo by JIJI Press/AFP Photo)





Visitors take selfies with miniature symbols of poop at the Unko (“poop” in Japanese) Museum in Tokyo, Japan, on March 22, 2024. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Children react to a display in the shape of poop decorated with a cherry blossom theme at the Unko (“poop” in Japanese) Museum in Tokyo, Japan, on March 22, 2024. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Graduates of the National Defence Academy of Japan toss their caps in the air during their graduation ceremony in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on March 23, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)





Cosplayers parade during the AnimeJapan 2024 in Tokyo, Japan, 24 March 2024. AnimeJapan is an annual event that has been held since 2014, and this year's theme is “Anime, the New Era”. The organizers are expecting more than 100,000 visitors at AnimeJapan, one of the world's largest anime festivals, as all restrictions since the COVID-19 pandemic have been lifted. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





Demonstrators wearing prisoner uniforms, monkey masks, and carrying piles of coconuts on wheelbarrows protest against Thailand's monkey-used coconut-picking industry in front of the Thai Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, 27 March 2024. PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has said that the Thai coconut milk industry still uses illegal monkey labor, in which monkeys are chained and forced to pick coconuts. Demonstrators said the coconuts used for the protest were humanely picked in Vietnam. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA/EFE)