With Mount Fuji in background, a puddle boarder waits for a wave to catch near Zaimokuza Beach in Kamakura, Japan, Friday, January 10, 2025. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





Kimono-clad Japanese young women gather after attending a Coming of Age Day ceremony at Yokohama Arena, in Yokohama, Japan, 13 January 2025. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





A kimono-clad woman celebrates the Coming-of-Age Day, a centuries-old tradition and national holiday celebrating the milestone from child to adult, in Yokohama near Tokyo, Monday, January 13, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Climbing stairs at Yokohama Arena to attend the Coming of Age Day ceremony on 13 January 2025. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





imono-clad women take a selfie as they celebrate the Coming-of-Age Day, a centuries-old tradition and national holiday celebrating the milestone from child to adult, in Yokohama near Tokyo, Monday, January 13, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Kimono-clad Japanese young women gather after attending a Coming of Age Day ceremony at Yokohama Arena, in Yokohama, Japan, 13 January 2025. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





Kimono-clad women are checked at a security checkpoint as they arrive to celebrate the Coming-of-Age Day, a centuries-old tradition and national holiday celebrating the milestone from child to adult, in Yokohama near Tokyo, Monday, January 13, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Kimono-clad Japanese young women stand in a train after attending a Coming of Age Day ceremony at Yokohama Arena, in Yokohama, Japan, 13 January 2025. Thousands of participants attended the ceremony of the Coming of Age Day in Yokohama, the day celebrating all those who reached 20 years of age, which is considered adulthood in Japan. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





Kimono-clad women with hair ornament celebrate the Coming-of-Age Day, a centuries-old tradition and national holiday celebrating the milestone from child to adult, in Yokohama near Tokyo, Monday, January 13, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Kimono-clad young women pose for a photograph outside the venue for their Coming of Age Day celebration ceremony in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Manami Yamada/Reuters)





Kimono-clad young women stand at the venue for their Coming of Age Day celebration ceremony in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Manami Yamada/Reuters)





Kimono-clad women embrace each other as they celebrate the Coming-of-Age Day, a centuries-old tradition and national holiday celebrating the milestone from child to adult, in Yokohama near Tokyo, Monday, January 13, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A young woman wearing a kimono to mark “Coming-of-Age Day” when the country honours people who turn 20 this year to signify adulthood, poses for a photo upon arrival at Meiji Shrine in central Tokyo on January 13, 2025. Every January, Japanese turning the legal age of 20 celebrate “Coming-of-Age Day”, in which the new adults dress in formal kimonos, pray at Shinto shrines and hear speeches from local officials on their new responsibilities. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





Young women wearing kimonos to mark “Coming-of-Age Day” when the country honours people who turn 20 this year to signify adulthood, arrive for a visit to Meiji Shrine in central Tokyo on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





Young women wearing kimonos pose for photos to mark “Coming-of-Age Day” when the country honours people who turn 20 this year to signify adulthood, arrive for a visit to Meiji Shrine in central Tokyo on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





Two young women (C) wearing kimonos to mark “Coming-of-Age Day” when the country honours people who turn 20 this year to signify adulthood, arrive for a visit to Meiji Shrine in central Tokyo on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





Young women wearing kimonos to mark “Coming-of-Age Day” when the country honours people who turn 20 this year to signify adulthood, arrive for a visit to Meiji Shrine in central Tokyo on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





A young woman wearing a kimono to mark “Coming-of-Age Day” when the country honours people who turn 20 this year to signify adulthood, arrive for a visit to Meiji Shrine in central Tokyo on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





People gather in silence around 6,434 candles, the same number as the victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, at a memorial gathering for the victims of the earthquake at the Koyaike Park in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, 16 January 2025. On 17 January 1995, a 7.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Kobe and its surroundings, taking the lives of more than 6,400 people. (Photo by JIJI Press/EPA/EFE)





People light candles as they take part in an early morning ceremony to remember the victims on the 30th anniversary of the “Great Hanshin Earthquake” in the city of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, early on January 17, 2025. The port city of Kobe was hit by a massive quake on January 17, 1995, killing 6,434 people and levelling much of the city. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)