A person prays next to flowers laid at the site where late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, near Yamato-Saidaiji station in Nara, western Japan, July 8, 2022. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Pedestrians are silhouetted against a large public video screen showing an image of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in the Akihabara district of Tokyo on July 8, 2022, after he was shot and killed in the city of Nara. Abe was pronounced dead on July 8, the hospital treating him confirmed, after he was shot at a campaign event in the city of Nara earlier in the day. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura and Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP Photo)





A car which is believed to carry the body of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at his home Saturday, July 9, 2022, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





People pray at a makeshift memorial near the scene where the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while delivering his speech to support the Liberal Democratic Party's candidate during an election campaign in Nara, Saturday, July 9, 2022. Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation's most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A hearse which is believed to carry the body of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at his home Saturday, July 9, 2022, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A man and his three years old granddaughter pray as they mourn former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, outside his residence in Tokyo, Japan on July 10, 2022. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Akie Abe, wife of late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, sits in a vehicle carrying Abe's body to a night vigil at a temple, in Tokyo, Japan on July 11, 2022. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People watch the hearse transporting the body of late former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe as it leaves Zojoji Temple in Tokyo on July 12, 2022. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





A woman cries after laying flowers at Zojoji temple on the day of the funeral for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 12, 2022 in Tokyo, Japan. Abe was assassinated as he was campaigning at a rally in Nara on Friday. A suspect was apprehended and taken into custody, and confessed to shooting Abe with an improvised homemade gun. The killing of Japan's longest-serving prime minister in a country where gun violence is extremely rare has shocked the nation and the world. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)





Visitors are silhouetted in front of lanterns during the annual Mitama Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine, where more than 2.4 million war dead are enshrined, in Tokyo, Japan, July 13, 2022. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





White-robed men hold up flaming torches during an annual fire festival at the World Heritage-listed Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Nachikatsuura, western Japan on July 14, 2022. (Photo by Kyodo News/Newscom/Avalon)





Passengers wearing protective masks wait for a train at a station as the nation's capital, Tokyo, reported 31,878 cases of daily infections, surpassing the 30,000 mark for the first time amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2022. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A guest attendee holding a lantern poses for her social media during a preview of the Naked Summer Festival 2022 at Nijo-jo Castle on July 21, 2022 in Kyoto, Japan. The exhibition will make use of projection mapping and virtual events in the metaverse to display art at the UNESCO-listed historic castle from July 22 to Aug. 21. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





Digital projected images of fireworks are displayed on a stone wall during a preview of the Naked Summer Festival 2022 at Nijo-jo Castle on July 21, 2022 in Kyoto, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





Guest attendees hold lanterns during a preview of the Naked Summer Festival 2022 at Nijo-jo Castle on July 21, 2022 in Kyoto, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





Guest attendees take photographs in a a fair stall illuminated with projection mapping during a preview of the Naked Summer Festival 2022 at Nijo-jo Castle on July 21, 2022 in Kyoto, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





Guest attendees holding lanterns stand in front of a digitally projected image during a preview of the Naked Summer Festival 2022 at Nijo-jo Castle on July 21, 2022 in Kyoto, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





Mongolian-born sumo wrestler Ichinojo (L) pushes out Ura (R) during the final day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture on July 24, 2022. (Photo by JIJI Press/AFP Photo)





The chief of Japan meteorological agency volcano monitoring division, explains the eruption of Sakurajima during a press conference in Tokyo on July 24, 2022. (Photo by JIJI Press/AFP Photo)





A sparrow flaps wings from a lotus flower under an intense sun Wednesday, July 27, 2022, in Tokyo. Hot weather continues in the metropolitan area as the temperature is expected to rise to 33.6 degrees Celsius (92.48 degrees Fahrenheit), according to Japan's meteorological bureau. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)