Participants clad in traditional “happi” coats swing the “mikoshi”, or portable shrine to left and right in Tenno-sai festival at Susanoo Shrine Saturday, June 3, 2017, in Tokyo. Tenno-sai festival is an annual traditional festival which is believed to expel a contagious disease in summer to protect people. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Participants clad in traditional “happi” coats swing the “mikoshi”, or portable shrine during Tenno-sai festival at Susanoo Shrine Saturday, June 3, 2017, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Kasa-mikuji or umbrella-shaped written oracles are hanged at Susanoo Shrine Saturday, June 3, 2017, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Participants clad in traditional "happi" coats swing the “mikoshi”, or portable shrine to left and right in Tenno-sai festival at Susanoo Shrine Saturday, June 3, 2017, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





People swing flame torches during the “Hiondori” ritual at the former battlefield of the Battle of Nagashino on August 15, 2017 in Shinshiro, Aichi, Japan. The ritual is to commemorate souls of samurai warriors died in the Battle of Nagashino in 1575, which the force of feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga won and pushed himself forward to the ruler of Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





Children ride on a swing made from a tyre at Nishi Rokugo Park, also known as Tyre Park, in Ota-Ku, Tokyo, Japan on August 17, 2017. The park features attractions made from thousands of recycled ttyres. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A special lantern is placed at the entrance of a house to celebrate their festival near Torigoe Shrine Saturday, June 10, 2017, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Residents and foreigners from a local neighborhood carry a portable shrine to celebrate the annual festival of Torigoe Shrine Saturday, June 10, 2017, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Women in yukatas, or casual summer kimonos, take their selfie in front of 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, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A man pulls tourists in a rickshaw past a taxi of Nissan Motor Co's Cedric in Tokyo, Japan June 1, 2017. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A woman takes a photo of an electronic board showing Japan's Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan June 2, 2017. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A man using a smartphone walks past an electronic shop's wall decorated with old cell phones which its owner Watanabe Masanao had collected over 20 years is pictured in Tokyo, Japan July 5, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Elementary school sumo wrestlers react as they apply for having TV interview after their matches during the Wanpaku sumo-wrestling tournament in Tokyo, Japan July 30, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Firefighters operate at the fire site at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan August 3, 2017. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





This photo taken on August 14, 2017 shows a dancer (C) eating ice cream during the Awa Odori festival in Tokushima The four- day dance festival attracts more than 1.2 million people annually. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





Schoolchildren leave the compound of their school during an evacuation drill in Abu town, western Japan, Sunday, June 4, 2017. The town on Japan's northwestern coast conducted the drill amid rising fear that a North Korean ballistic missile could hit Japanese soil. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





In this August 2, 2017 photo, men in the kitchen busily prepare for dinner service at Hashimoto, a Michelin one-star unagi restaurant in Tokyo. The unagi restaurant first opened in 1853 and is now in its sixth-generation. Many locals order unajyu, pictured in the posters on the wall, and can eat in or have it prepared for take-away. The restaurant uses only farmed eels, which tend to be larger and fattier than wild eels. The endangered Japanese summer delicacy may get a new lease on life with commercial farming. (Photo by Sherry Zheng/AP Photo)





People take a foot bath at a park in Tokyo's Roppongi district, Japan, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)





Online celebrity Chunhun, a leading voice among young women fascinated with North Korean culture, flips through a photo album of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the home a like-minded friend in Tokyo, Japan on July 27, 2017. (Photo by Tomohiro Osaki)