Some of the bystanders waiting at a traffic intersection take pictures of a clock on a building when the 10th annual tribute started at 2:46 p.m. for the victims of a 2011 disaster in Tokyo Thursday, March 11, 2021. Japan is marking the 10th anniversary Thursday of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that hit the northeastern region. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





Pedestrians looks at early blooming cherry blossoms in a park in Tokyo on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





A woman takes a photo of her husband in front of a clock that shows 2:46 p.m. to commemorate the 2011 earthquake that hit the northeastern Japan, before the 10th anniversary to pay tribute to the victims in Tokyo Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





A model presents one of the creations from graduated students of the Vantan Design Institute, in Tokyo, Japan, 14 March 2021. For their graduation show, the students presented innovative works with the title “Un-Mask Your Creativity With PITTA”. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





A model presents a creation by Japanese designer Jotaro Saito from the Autumn/Winter 2021 collection for the label “Jotaro Saito” during the Tokyo Fashion Week in Tokyo, Japan, 18 March 2021. The presentation of the Autumn/Winter 2021 collections runs from 15 to 20 March. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





A little bird perches on a branch of cherry tree at Tokyo's Ueno park on Monday, March 15, 2021. Japan Meteorological Agency announced cherry trees came into blooms on March 14 in Tokyo. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Buddhist monk wearing a protective mask carries a child as he walks across smouldering coals at the fire-walking festival, called hiwatari matsuri, in Japanese, at Mt.Takao in Tokyo, Japan, March 14, 2021. Japanese worshippers prayed for the safety of themselves and their families by walking barefoot with Buddhist monks over hot coals at an annual festival near Mt. Takaosan. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Staffs of teamLab wearing swimming suits walk inside digital artwork combined with light, water and sound during a demonstration of TikTok teamLab Reconnect, digital artwork combined with sauna, ahead of its opening to the public this month in Tokyo, Japan, March 13, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Kimono-clad women wearing protective face masks take selfie photos among blooming cherry blossoms amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) panemic, at Ueno Park in Tokyo, Japan, March 23, 2021. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Passengers wearing protective face masks enjoy viewing blooming cherry blossoms from an open-top sightseeing bus, operated by Hato Bus Co., after Japan's government lifted the coronavirus state of emergency in the Tokyo area, Japan on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Androniki Christodoulou/Reuters)





A staff member prepares the decoration to mourn for the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami prior to an online special memorial event at Hibiya Park in Tokyo Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Japanese torchbearer Azusa Iwashimizu, center, a member of Japan women's national football team, arrives at a torch kiss point to pass on the flame during the torch relay grand start outside J-Village National Training Center in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics began its 121-day journey across Japan on Thursday and is headed toward the opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 23. (Photo by Philip Fong/Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Local people cheer torchbearers and participants running at the torch relay route of the first section of the Fukushima Torch Relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A man and a woman stand with a backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Tokyo. Tokyo Olympics creative director Hiroshi Sasaki is resigning after making demeaning comments about Naomi Watanabe, a well-known female celebrity. Sasaki who was in charge of the opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics, told planning staff members last year that Watanabe could perform in the ceremony as an “Olympig”. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A woman takes pictures of cherry blossoms at Ueno park in Tokyo on March 12, 2021. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP Photo)





A woman runs to cross a street in Tokyo on March 5, 2021. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP Photo)





Buddhist monks offer a prayer for victims of the 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami, at a memorial cenotaph near former high school building, background, in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, Japan Thursday, March 11, 2021. Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck Japan's northeastern coast. (Photo by Yohei Nishimura/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Local residents hold lanterns with messages for earthquake and tsunami victims in Yamada, Iwate prefecture on March 11, 2021, the 10th anniversary of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake which triggered a tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Photo by JIJI Press/AFP Photo)





An alcohol bottle (bottom) is installed on a street of Ueno shopping district to encourage shoppers to disinfect their hands in Tokyo on March 14, 2021 to prevent infection with the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





Mario and Luigi characters greet visitors in front of Yoshi's Adventure attraction inside Super Nintendo World, a new attraction area featuring the popular video game character Mario which is set to open to public on March 18, during a press preview at the Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka, western Japan, March 17, 2021. (Photo by Irene Wang/Reuters)





Grand champion Hakuho (front) barely defeats Daieisho on the first day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Kyodo News/Newscom/Profimedia)