A model displays a creation from the 2023 A/W collection by Japanese designer Jotaro Saito at Tokyo Fashion Week in Tokyo on March 16, 2023. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





A woman poses for photographs in front of a cherry blossom tree in Tokyo on March 19, 2023. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





People enjoy a cherry blossoms party, in Tokyo, Japan on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Androniki Christodoulou/Reuters)





People enjoy cherry blossoms in Tokyo, Japan on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Androniki Christodoulou/Reuters)





Girls feed sparrows and take photos in front of cherry blossom trees at Ueno park, in Tokyo, Japan on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Androniki Christodoulou/Reuters)





People walk and take photos under cherry trees at Ueno park in Tokyo, Japan on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Androniki Christodoulou/Reuters)





A woman poses under cherry blossoms in full bloom at a park in the Sumida district of Tokyo on March 22, 2023. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





People rest under cherry blossoms in full bloom at a park in the Sumida district of Tokyo on March 22, 2023. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Blooming cherry blossoms are illuminated along the Meguro River in Tokyo on March 22, 2023. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





A passerby walks past an electric monitor displaying recent movements of various stock prices outside a bank in Tokyo, Japan on March 22, 2023. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





An employee distributes extra editions of the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reporting on Japan's victory at the final match of the World Baseball Classic Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Tokyo. The headline of the newspaper said “Japan is No. 1 in the World”. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk performs onstage at the Tokyo Garden Theater on March 28, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Santiago Felipe/Getty Images for ABA)





Seiichi Sano, an 89-year-old Japanese man, rides a wave at Katase Nishihama Beach, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Fujisawa, south of Tokyo. Sano, who turns 90 later this year, has been recognized by the Guinness World Records as the oldest male to surf. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A crowd of tourists walk on the street near Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto, western Japan on March 30, 2023. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





People have their photographs taken under cherry blossoms in Tokyo on March 31, 2023. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)





Visitors take photos of cherry blossoms in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Saturday, April 1, 2023. Evacuation orders were lifted in small sections of Tomioka, a town just southwest of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, on Saturday, in time for the area’s trademark cherry blossom season and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida joined a ceremony there. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A phallic-shaped 'mikoshi' is paraded through the streets during the Kanamara festival in Kawasaki on April 2, 2023. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)





A woman walks past cherry trees in bloom at night in the Yonomori area on April 02, 2023 in Tomioka, Fukushima, Japan. The evacuation order for the Yonomori area was lifted on April 1 for the first time in twelve years since the area was designated as a “difficult-to-return” zone following the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster in 2011. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)





New employees of Japan Airlines Group (JAL) attend the company entrance ceremony at a Haneda airport maintenance hangar in Tokyo, Japan, 03 April 2023. Almost 2,000 new recruits from 37 JAL group companies attended the event at the start of the new fiscal year. The ceremony was held for the first time in four years following a suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





Newly hired employees for Japan Airlines (JAL) release paper airplanes during an entrance ceremony in a hangar at Haneda Airport on April 03, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)