Men battle for pieces of a bamboo fan in a muddy rice field during Isobe-no-Omita, a rice planting festival at Izawanomiya Shrine, Shima City, Mie Prefecture, Japan on June 24, 2018. During the festival, held annually to ensure a good harvest and a bountiful catch of fish, men and women plant rice by hand, and men battle for bamboo in a muddy rice field. The festival is considered one of Japan's three great rice planting festivals, and is a nationally recognized Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. (Photo by Aflo/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An overturned car is seen on a road following heavy rain in Ozu city, Ehime prefecture, southwestern Japan, Sunday, July 8, 2018. Heavy rainfall hammered southern Japan for the third day, prompting new disaster warnings on Kyushu and Shikoku islands on Sunday. (Photo by Michi Ono/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





This photo taken on July 1, 2018 shows couples enjoying the night view of Rainbow Bridge along Tokyo Bay. (Photo by Martin Bureau/AFP Photo)





A Hello Kitty-themed “shinkansen” bullet train is unveiled at JR Shin Osaka station, in Osaka, western Japan, Saturday, June 30, 2018. The special shinkansen had its inaugural round trip Saturday between Osaka and Fukuoka, connecting Japan’s west and south until the end of September. The stylish train is painted pink and white, showcasing Hello Kitty images and trademark ribbons from flooring to seat covers and windows. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Tourists, dressed in traditional Japanese kimonos, stand in a park in Kyoto, western Japan November 19, 2014. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





High school students from a dance club at Kanagawa Korean Middle and High School take a selfie after their traditional dance performance at a local international day event to promote a multicultural society in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, May 20, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A Japanese woman wearing a kimono waits for her train after Coming of Age Day celebration ceremony in Tokyo, Japan January 9, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters/File Photo)





Tourists from Philippines walk past irradiated cattle skulls at the Farm of Hope, near Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Namie town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan May 17, 2018. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





Tourists from Tokyo's universities, plant rice seedlings in a paddy field, near Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, during a rice planting event in Namie town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan May 19, 2018. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A Japanese soccer fan wearing samurai costume walks on the crossing after the World Cup Round of 16 soccer match Belgium vs Japan, at Shibuya district in Tokyo, Japan July 3, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Yusaku Maezawa (3rd R), the chief executive of Zozo, which operates Japan's popular fashion shopping site Zozotown and is officially called Start Today Co, looks at his employee who wears a made-to-measure suit using a skintight bodysuit which helps customers upload their measurements online at an event launching the debut of its formal apparel items, in Tokyo, Japan, July 3, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Women wearing traditional costumes look at installations with goldfish in illuminated tanks at Art Aquarium 2018, produced by Japanese Art Aquarium artist Hidetomo Kimura, in Tokyo, Japan, July 5, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A local resident walks in a flood affected area in Mabi town in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan on July 10, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Household waste, caused by a flooding, are piled up at a temporary waste-collection point in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, July 14, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Participants with traditional Japanese tattoos (Irezumi), related to the Yakuza, walk through the Asakusa district during the annual Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo on May 20, 2018. Sanja Matsuri festival is a celebration for the three founders of Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa neighbourhood with nearly two million people visiting during the three-day event. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)





Women wearing kimonos walk along a street in Tokyo's Asakusa district on July 3, 2018. (Photo by Martin Bureau/AFP Photo)





A man uses smartphone at a flooded area near Kawabejuku train station after heavy rains in Kurashiki, Okayama prefecture, southwestern Japan, Saturday, July 7, 2018. Torrents of rainfall and flooding continued to batter southwestern Japan. (Photo by Koki Sengoku/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





In this June 18, 2018, photo, people walk on a bridge while train and subway service were suspended to check for damage after an earthquake in Osaka, western Japan. The magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck the area early Monday damaged buildings and left many homes without water or gas. The quake also grounded flights in and out of Osaka and paralyzed traffic and commuter trains most of the day. (Photo by Meika Fujio/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Women in yukatas, or casual summer kimonos, pose to take their photos between paper lanterns during the annual Mitama Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine, where more than 2.4 million war dead are enshrined, in Tokyo, Japan July 13, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Japanese soccer fans celebrate after the Group H World Cup soccer match between Japan and Senegal, at Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo early Monday, June 25, 2018. Japan ended in a 2-2 draw. (Photo by Nicola Shannon/AP Photo)