A station staff wearing face mask to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus looks at a subway arriving at a station in Tokyo Thursday, April 30, 2020. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





In this April 25, 2020, photo, people eat at a small ramen shop in the entertainment district near Shibuya station right before the 8pm government requested closing time for restaurants and bars in Tokyo. Under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others are dining out, picnicking in parks and crowding into grocery stores with scant regard for social distancing. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





In this April 22, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks to protect themselves against the spread of the new coronavirus queue up to buy lunch at a shop in Tokyo. Under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others are dining out, picnicking in parks and crowding into grocery stores with scant regard for social distancing. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Japanese Kunio Hayakawa, 72, fishmonger, poses for a picture at his shop in Tokyo on April 21, 2020 during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of May Day on May 1, 2020, AFP portrayed 55 workers defying the novel coronavirus around the world. Kunio Hayakawa decided to keep his shop open because he wanted to do “everything for Shinagawa people”. He said there are no changes due to the virus, with the same number of customers, and that he “will stay open until the end (of the crisis)” or until the government says so. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP Photo)





In this April 28, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a face mask against the spread of the new coronavirus walks through a bar street in Tokyo. Under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others are dining out, picnicking in parks and crowding into grocery stores with scant regard for social distancing. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Workers cut off flowers of fully bloomed Japanese wisteria, Kurogi-no-Ofuji, which is believed to be approximately 620-year-old at Susanoo Jinja Shrine amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 28, 2020 in Yame, Fukuoka, Japan. The wisteria festival, usually attract 200,000 visitors, was cancelled as a precautious measure to avoid possible outbreak of the Covid-19 ahead of the so-called “Golden Week” holiday week in Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





In this April 29, 2020, file photo, a few passengers walk at a domestic terminal of Haneda Airport in Tokyo, at the start of “Golden Week” holidays. Under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others are dining out, picnicking in parks and crowding into grocery stores with scant regard for social distancing. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A rat tries to feed off garbage in Kabukicho nightlife district, during a state of emergency to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan, April 28, 2020. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A female seal Shakitto and the aquarium keeper Manami Suka stroll together as a part of their practice for their show at an empty visitors' area at the Aqua Park Shinagawa which is closed to the public amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan on April 30, 2020. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Penguins Momo and Omochi are seen while the projection mapping images is being cast during a media preview for their free online animal shows for children and families staying at home during Golden Week holidays due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, at the Aqua Park Shinagawa in Tokyo, Japan on April 30, 2020. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A station passageway is crowded with commuters wearing face mask during a rush hour in Tokyo Monday, April 27, 2020. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expanded a state of emergency to all of Japan from just Tokyo and other urban areas as the virus continues to spread. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A Pepper humanoid robot, manufactured by SoftBank Group Corp. demonstrates how to check-in in a hotel of APA Group that has been designated to accommodate asymptomatic people and those with light symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to free up hospital beds and alleviate work by nurses and staff members, in Tokyo, Japan May 1, 2020. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





People wearing face masks walk under fluttering Koinobori, traditional Japanese carp-shaped windsocks that are hung in Japan from April to early May to wish a good health for children, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan, April 24, 2020. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A staff member wearing a face shield talks to a bank teller at a counter where a plastic curtain is installed in order to prevent infections following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the Higashinakano branch of MUFG Bank in Tokyo, Japan, April 24, 2020. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





In this April 19, 2020, file photo, children, some wearing protective masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, play baseball on a walkway to Shibuya Hikawa-Jijja shinto shrine in Tokyo. Under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others are dining out, picnicking in parks and crowding into grocery stores with scant regard for social distancing. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo/File)





A photographer checks her camera at an empty Aqua Park Shinagawa during a media preview in Tokyo Thursday, April 30, 2020. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expanded a state of emergency to all of Japan from just Tokyo and other urban areas as the virus continues to spread. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask against the spread of the new coronavirus looks at menu of a restaurant at an empty street in Tokyo Tuesday, April 28, 2020. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A man wearing a mask to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus walks along a bar alley in the Shinjuku Ward in Tokyo, Friday evening, April 24, 2020. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expanded a state of emergency to all of Japan from just Tokyo and other urban areas as the virus continues to spread. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Akihiro Yoshida, the owner of Hair salon Pinch, gives hair treatment to his customer Natsuki Suda, while both of them wear protective face masks in order to prevent infections following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan, April 28, 2020. According to Yoshida, the revenue of his salon in April falls less than 50 percent of usual season and now it accepts one customer at a time by appointment only as a measurement for preventing the infection. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A park staff takes pictures of Iceland poppies to inform visitors on the flowering situation on their website at the Musashi-Kyuryo National Park, which has been temporarily closed since April 8 to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Namegawa, Saitama prefecture on April 26, 2020. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)