Police officers stand by a yellow rope restricting entry into the site at the Saikazaki port where a man threw an explosive just before Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was to make a campaign speech for a local governing party candidate Saturday, April 15, 2023, in Wakayama, western Japan. (Photo by Mari Yamaguchi/AP Photo)





Tourists enjoy viewing the snow walls, called Yuki no Otani, standing high on both sides of the stretch on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in Tateyama Town, Toyama Prefecture on April 15, 2023. The route, a popular and scenic mountain pass that runs through the Northern Japanese Alps in Toyama and Nagano prefectures, opened its entire stretch on the sane day, ending the winter closure period.(Photo by Noboru Hosono/Yomiuri/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP Photo)





Office workers in Tokyo's Marunouchi business area compete in a tug-of-war match aimed at promoting health and interaction between companies and workers on April 17, 2023. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)





Sumo wrestlers attend a shinto ritual during the annual dedicated grand sumo tournament “Honozumo” at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 17 April 2023. The tournament was held at the shrine for the first time in four years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA)





Grand Champion Haruo Terunofuji (C), Mongolian-born Japanese sumo wrestler, fights with Mongolian sumo wrestler Tetsuo Kiribayama during a final bout of the annual dedicated grand sumo tournament “Honozumo” at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 17 April 2023. The tournament was held at the shrine for the first time in four years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA/EFE)





Sumo wrestlers attend the inner courtyard worship after the ceremonial sumo exhibition match “votive grand sumo tournament” at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 17, 2023. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Visitors enjoy fully bloomed moss phlox during the Fuji Shibazakura Festival on April 20, 2023 in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





A participant marches during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade, celebrating advances in LGBTQ rights and calling for marriage equality, in Tokyo, Japan on April 23, 2023. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Sumo wrestlers hold babies during Nakizumo, the traditional baby crying contest, at Yukigaya Hachiman Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 29 April 2023. Two babies held by each professional sumo wrestler compete to cry louder. The Nakizumo has been held all over Japan to pray for babies' health and growth as it is believed that babies crying louder are strong to ward off evil. A referee is in the center and sometimes uses a devil mask to scare the babies if they do not start crying. About 100 babies from six-month-old to two and a half-year-old participated in the babies crying contest. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Posters of Trevor Bauer who's pitching for the Yokohama BayStars are placed at the pathway of a train station on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Yokohama near Tokyo. Bauer will pitch his first official game for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars on Wednesday and, to promote the start, a local department store is to unveil a seven-story poster of the former Cy Young winner on the building's facade. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Participants carry a portable shrine or “mikoshi” through the streets during a local festival, or “matsuri”, in the Higashi-Ginza area of Tokyo on May 3, 2023. Japan on May 3 marked Constitution Day, one of four public holidays at the end of April and beginning of May which make up “Golden Week”, one of the country's big three holiday periods. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





Colorful carp streamers flutter in the air at the bottom of Tokyo Tower in Tokyo, Thursday, May 4, 2023, on the eve of Children's Day national holiday. It is a national tradition in Japan to fly carp streamers on Children's Day. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A car is seen crushed by a collapsed house after a strong earthquake in Suzu city, Ishikawa prefecture, northern Japan, Friday, May 5, 2023. A strong earthquake hit Friday afternoon near central Japan, but there were no reports of a tsunami threat.(Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





British actress Millie Bobby Brown and Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen break the sake barrel during the opening ceremony for Osaka Comic Con 2023 at the Intex Osaka on May 5, 2023 in Osaka, Japan. (Photo by Jun Sato/WireImage)





Pedestrians walk on a crosswalk at Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan, 08 May 2023. Japan downgraded the classification of COVID-19 disease from category II to V, the same as influenza, in the Japanese Infectious Disease Law on 08 May 2023, to lift restrictions after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end to the COVID-19 international health emergency phase on 05 May. It is expected to improve the Japanese economy. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA)





Japanese police investigators work at an area near a stabbing scene in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Japanese police said a schoolboy was stabbed in the chest as he stepped out of his house to go to school Wednesday in a residential area of downtown Tokyo. A suspect was arrested at the scene. (Photo by Takaki Yajima/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Police officers go up the station stairs depicting the logo of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, in Niigata, Japan, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The G7 Niigata is scheduled on May 11-13. (Photo by Shuji Kajiyama/AP Photo)





One of protesters holds a banner during a rally outside Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) headquarters building Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Tokyo. Dozens of anti-nuclear activists gathered outside of the Tokyo utility operating a tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant and demanded Japan scrap its plan to start releasing into sea massive stockpile of treated but still radioactive water. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





This photo taken on May 15, 2023 shows a tricycle (C) donated by Nobuo Tesutani – the father of a boy who died in the 1945 atomic bombing, on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, just days ahead of the arrival of leaders for the G7 Leaders' Summit. G7 leaders meet in Hiroshima from May 19-21, looking to tighten the screws further on Russia over the Ukraine war and agree a united line on China's growing military and economic power. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP Photo)





A woman walks past police officers standing guard on a street near Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, ahead of the G7 Leaders' Summit, on May 17, 2023. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Phoot)