105-year-old Japanese Hidekichi Miyazaki poses like Jamaica's Usain Bolt in front of an electric board showing his 100-metre record time of 42.22 seconds at an athletic field in Kyoto, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 23, 2015. Japanese centenarian Hidekichi Miyazaki set a record as the world's oldest competitive sprinter this week, one day after turning 105, but said he was disappointed at falling short of his own personal best. (Photo by Reuters/Kyodo News)





Men wearing loin cloth hold bricks of ice after bathing in ice-cold water in a ceremony to purify souls and wish for good health in the new year at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 13, 2019. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Dolls representing the next Japanese emperor Naruhito (L) and his wife Masako are displayed at Kyugetsu store in Tokyo, Japan on February 22, 2019. (Photo by Martin Bureau/AFP Photo)





Yamabushi Ascetic Monks walking barefoot over the hot coals, and through flames which purify by burning all defilements away, pray for protection against sickness and calamity and for safety within the family during the Hiwatari fire walking festival in a fire ritual called Saito Goma-ku at Yakuo-in temple in Takaosanguchi in Tokyo, Japan on March 10, 2019. Every year on the second Sunday of March Yamabushi Ascetic Monks, Worshipers and participants take part at a large open-air fire ritual at the foot of the Mount Takao in western region of the Tokyo walking barefoot over the hot coals. (Photo by Damon Coulter/Barcroft Images)





Two women wearing kimonos pose for pictures around Sensoji temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, on January 21, 2019. (Photo by Martin Bureau/AFP Photo)





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)





In this January 9, 2018, file photo, sumo grand champion Kisenosato, right, of Japan performs his ring entry form with sward-holder Shohozan at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. Grand champion Kisenosato, the only Japanese wrestler at sumo's highest rank, has decided to retire after three straight losses at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament. Kisenosato needed a strong start to the New Year tourney to salvage his career but wasn't able to win in the first three days and decided to retire, his stablemaster said on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)





A man splashes himself with cold water during the annual cold water endurance ceremony, to purify his soul and wish for good fortune in the new year, at the Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo, Japan January 26, 2019. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A kimono-clad female lawmaker arrives at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Japan on January 28, 2019. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo, Japan, February 18, 2019. (Photo by Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters)





A woman faces the sea to pray while mourning the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on March 11, 2019. (Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)





A pet dog sits on a front desk at Hatanodai Indoor Fishing, an indoor fishing facility which was converted from an old bathhouse that went out of business, in Tokyo, Japan, March 14, 2019. The sign on the door reads, “For men (L), For women”. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Participants dressed in “Kendai” or a bird shaped straw coats walks to the village to perform a dance during the “Kasedori Festival” in Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, on February 11, 2019, to pray for good harvest, good fortune and fire prevention while local people wait in the streets with buckets and ladles to splash cold water onto the performers. (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Mongolian Ichinojo (R) throws Okinoumi (L) to win on day four of the Grand Sumo Spring Tournament at Edion Arena Osaka on March 13, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





Fans at a restaurant in Tokyo celebrate as Japan's Naomi Osaka wins against Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova at the Australian Open tennis women's final on Saturday, January 26, 2019. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A car carrying former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn is surrounded by journalists as it leaves Ghosn's lawyer's office, in Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 2019. Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn left his Tokyo detention centre on March 6 after more than 100 days in custody, following a shock court decision granting him bail of one billion yen ($9 million). (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Karate athlete Kiyo Shimizu performs during a celebration to mark 500 days to go, in Tokyo, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Organizers marked the milestone on Tuesday, unveiling the stylized pictogram figures for next year’s Tokyo Olympics. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)





In this May 7, 2017, file photo, participants pose on a float before the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Tokyo. Thirteen same-s*x couples are filing Japan’s first lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the country’s rejection of same-s*x marriage on Valentine Day, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 in Tokyo. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)





Participants shoot arrows wearing “Furisode”, a long sleeved kimono, take part in an archery event for 20-year-olds to celebrate their coming-of-age at Sanjusangendo Temple on January 17, 2016 in Kyoto, Japan. Some 2,000 people took part in the annual event. (Photo by Taro Karibe/Getty Images)





A zookeeper wearing orangutan costume tries to escape while zookeepers hold up a net in an attempt to capture it during an Escaped Animal Drill at Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo, Japan on February 22, 2019. The annual escape drill is held to train zookeepers what to do in the event of an animal escape. This year a member of staff wearing an orangutan costume was captured and subdued with large nets, sticks and tranquilizer guns to make sure the orangutan did not get away. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News)





Shoko Tendo poses after an interview with Reuters in Tokyo August 28, 2007. Tendo, 39, the author of “Yakuza Moon”, a best-selling memoir just out in English, says that police efforts to eradicate the gansters have merely made them harder to track. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)