Lines for Covid test sample collections inside the main press and international broadcast centre building for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan on July 5, 2021. The Games are due to start on 23 July. (Photo by AFLO/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People walk by a 3D video advertisement display of a giant cat that was recently installed in the famed Shinjuku shopping district in Tokyo on Friday, July 9, 2021. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





A person on his bicycle wearing a protective mask passes by an electronic display that reads: “10 days until Tokyo 2020 Olympics” Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Tokyo. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk on a sidewalk with a misting service in Tokyo Friday, July 16, 2021. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





Visitors wearing protective face masks look at thousands paper lanterns during the Mitama Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine, where more than 2.4 million war-dead are enshrined, during a fourth coronavirus state of emergency for the Tokyo capital ahead of the opening of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan on July 13, 2021. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A statue of a girl representing “comfort women”, or the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, is displayed during an art exhibition at the Citizen's Gallery Sakae in Nagoya, central Japan, 06 July 2021. The exhibition titled 'After 'Freedom of Expression?,' which sparked controversy for featuring the statue roughly two years ago, opened on 06 July. (Photo by Yohnap/EPA/EFE)





Around 2,000 candles are lit in front of Zojoji temple to mark the Tanabata or Japanese star festival in Tokyo on July 6, 2021. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFPPhoto)





People wearing face masks ride bicycles as they cross an intersection near a shopping street in Tokyo on Thursday, July 15, 2021. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





A woman cycles past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)





Rescuers work as they conduct a search operation at the site of a mudslide in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, Sunday, July 4, 2021. A gush of mud swept away homes and cars in the resort town. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A man watches as rescuers continue a search operation at the site of a mudslide at Izusan in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, southwest of Tokyo Monday, July 5, 2021. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Rescuers conduct a search operation at the site of a mudslide at Izusan in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, Sunday, July 4, 2021. More than 1,000 soldiers, firefighters and police on Sunday waded through a giant mudslide that ripped through the resort town as it swept away houses and cars. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A police officer with a search and rescue dog, searches the area around the site of a landslide on July 04, 2021 in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan. Torrential rain triggered a landslide, where two people are now confirmed to have been killed, with about twenty still missing. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)





In this July 8, 2021, file photo, pedestrians walk past a giant public TV with a live broadcast of a news conference by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga after he announced a state of emergency because of rising coronavirus infections in Tokyo. Faced with rapidly rising numbers of new coronavirus infections and growing concern over the proliferation of the highly contagious delta variant, major Asia-Pacific cities implemented new restrictions Friday, July 2021, in the hope of reversing the trend before health care systems are overwhelmed. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks walk by a train station in the rain in Tokyo on Friday, July 2, 2021. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





A police officer rides his bicycle along Imperial Palace Sunday, July 11, 2021, in Tokyo. The fourth state of emergency would go in effect on Monday and last through Aug. 22, despite the opening ceremony of Tokyo Olympics will be held in less than two weeks. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





An employee is seen among Olympic Rings and Tokyo 2020 mascots at the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo on July 8, 2021. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





A man fishes on a boat at Lake Hamana in the sun set in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan on July 15, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Workers decorate Olympic and Paralympic mascots, Miraitowa (L) and Someity (R), in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games near the main press centre in Tokyo on July 20, 2021. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP Photo)