A pedestrian walks at a scramble crossing at Shibuya shopping district, the so-called Shibuya crossing, in Tokyo, Japan, October 10, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Scaffolding of a building being demolished, collapse, following a powerful typhoon in Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, September 4, 2018. A powerful typhoon blew through western Japan on Tuesday, causing heavy rain to flood the region's main offshore international airport and high winds to blow a tanker into a connecting bridge, disrupting land and air travel. (Photo by Nobuki Ito/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A tanker is seen after it slammed into the side of a bridge connecting the airport to the mainland, damaging part of the bridge and the vessel in Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, Sepember. 4, 2018. (Photo by Kentaro Ikushima/Mainichi Newspaper via AP Photo)





A police car makes through a flooded road following a powerful typhoon in Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, September 4, 2018. (Photo by Kota Endo/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A prospective buyer checks a frozen tuna during the first auction at the newly opened Toyosu Market, new site of Tokyo's fish market, in Tokyo Thursday, October 11, 2018.Tokyo's famous fish market reopened Thursday at a new location but with an old tradition: the tuna auction. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





In this September 26, 2018, photo, Tai Yamaguchi of fish wholesaler Hitoku Shoten, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. Japan’s famed Tsukiji fish market is closing down on Saturday, October 6, 2018 after eight decades, with shop owners and workers still doubting the safety of its replacement site. “If the new place were better, I’ll be happy to move”, said Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi feels it has been mishandled by authorities who failed to fully consult those affected. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)





A prospective buyer looks at frozen tunas during the first auction at the newly opened Toyosu Market, new site of Tokyo's fish market, in Tokyo Thursday, October 11, 2018. Tokyo's famous fish market reopened Thursday at a new location but with an old tradition: the tuna auction. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Takako Arai's earliest memories are of Tsukiji, playing hide-and-seek with her brother in the concrete maze of Tokyo's sprawling fish market. Years later, she now runs the family's seafood stall that sells mackerel and yellowfin tuna. Arai and hundreds of other fish traders are reluctantly packing up and preparing to leave Tsukiji this week for a gleaming new $5 billion market on reclaimed land farther from central Tokyo. “I feel torn. I grew up here and I feel like we're losing so much of our history by leaving this place”, said Arai, 45. The 83-year-old market, a popular tourist attraction, is a warren of shops and warehouses where small turret trucks zip around laden with ice-filled boxes of fish. But city officials say it has become dilapidated and unsanitary. Here: A wholesaler takes a break after trading ends at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, September 27, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Japanese black-blue fish are displayed beside other fish for sale at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Auctioneers take part in a wasabi auction at the greengrocery area on the opening day of the new Toyosu market, which has been relocated from Tsukiji market, in Tokyo, Japan, October 11, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





The terraced rice paddies of Shiroyone Senmaida glow under 25,000 solar-powered LED lights in Wajima, Japan on October 11, 2018. (Photo by Asahi Shimbun/The Guardian)





School children wearing padded hoods to protect them from falling debris, take part in an earthquake simulation drill at an elementary school in Tokyo, Japan August 31, 2018, a day before Disaster Prevention Day to commemorate the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)





A young girl looks at jellyfish swimming in a tank at Shinagawa Aquarium in Tokyo, Japan, 28 August 2018. The jellyfish corner with its four tanks is a popular attraction at the Shinagawa Aquarium. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





Visitors walk through a field of red Kochias (summer cypress) at Hitachi Seaside Park on October 19, 2018 in Katsuta, Japan. For just a brief period between early to mid October each year, the Kochias on Miharashi Hills in Hitachi Seaside Park turn from green to vivid red drawing tourists from around Japan and further afield who pose for photographs against the sea of crimson. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)





A woman reads a book at the Shinjuku branch of Book and Bed, an accommodation combined with book cafe where guests can sleep in hidden bunks built into a large bookshelf, during a photo opportunity in Tokyo, Japan on September 14, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Participants including elderly and middle-aged people exercise with wooden dumbbells during a health promotion event to mark Japan's “Respect for the Aged Day” at a temple in Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly, September 17, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





A passer-by walks in heavy rain and wind caused by Typhoon Trami in the prefectural capital Naha, on the southern island of Okinawa, in this photo taken by Kyodo on September 29, 2018. (Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)





Japan's new minister in charge of local economic revitalisation Satsuki Katayama leaves a photo session with other ministers at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan October 2, 2018. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Yuma Osaki, a navigator, prepares to blow a bugle on the bridge of Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga as it departs for naval drills in the Indian Ocean, Indonesia, September 22, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Sailors bathe in a sea water bath on Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga in the Indian Ocean, September 25, 2018. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, October 18, 2018. Shares fell Thursday in Asia after a retreat on Wall Street driven by a sell-off of technology shares, homebuilders and retailers. A report of weaker Japanese exports in September underscored uncertainties over the outlook for trade. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)





A police officer controls the traffic during a blackout following a strong earthquake in Sapporo, northern Japan early Thursday, September 6, 2018. A powerful earthquake struck the island of Hokkaido early Thursday. (Photo by Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP Photo)





Participants rest on the harbour wall during a lunch break in the Ohara Hadaka Festival on September 23, 2018 in Ohara, Japan. This festival is believed to have originated in the Edo period when local villagers would pray for bumper crops and an abundant catch and is now well known for the “Shiofumi” performance where groups of villagers carrying eighteen mikoshi gather at Ohara beach before running into the sea. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)





In this Monday, August 6, 2018, file photo, tourists from Wales drive carts on a street in Akihabara shopping and tourist district, in Tokyo. Nintendo says it has won damages in a lawsuit against a Tokyo business that has been renting go-karts for people to drive around the city in Super Mario costumes. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Pedestrians using umbrellas struggle against strong wind and rain in Tokyo, Japan, 04 September 2018. Powerful Typhoon Jebi, the 21st typhoon of the season, has made landfall on Shikoku Island and western Japan, bringing strong winds, high waves and heavy rains. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA/EFE)





Participants in costumes pose before a Halloween parade in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan on October 28, 2018. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)