Men ride on a “mikoshi” or portable shrine as local people carry it into the sea during a festival to wish peace in the ocean and good fortune in the new year in Oiso, west of Tokyo, January 1, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)

Students wearing traditional costumes celebrate on the eve of “Ugadi” festival, or new year's day as per the Hindu lunisolar calendar, in Chennai on April 1, 2022. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)

A humanoid robot works side by side with employees in the assembly line at a factory of Glory Ltd., a manufacturer of automatic change dispensers, in Kazo, north of Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2015. Japanese firms are ramping up spending on robotics and automation, responding at last to premier Shinzo Abe's efforts to stimulate the economy and end two decades of stagnation and deflation. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)

An artists performs on the street during a Myfest festival marking the May Day in the Kreuzberg district in Berlin, Germany on May 1, 2018. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

A woman walks behind the installation “Wandering boy is forever attractive” (1985) by Tetsumi Kudo during the press preview at the exhibition “Tetsumi Kudo – Retrospective” in the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany, Friday, September 23, 2016. The exhibition offers an in-depth, comprehensive view of works by the Japanese artist Kudo. It starts on Sept. 25, 2016 and lasts until Jan. 1, 2017. (Photo by Jens Meyer/AP Photo)

A jockey drives a buffalo in the annual water buffalo race, part of a week-long festival in homage to the animals and in celebration of the rice harvest in Chonburi, Thailand on April 1, 2016. (Photo by Vichaya Pop/Barcroft Media)

Performers of circus company Circa perform during a photocall for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on Calton Hill on August 1, 2017 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. (Photo by Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian)

Models pose backstage ahead of the Review of Australian Fashion Week show as part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival Sydney 2011 at Sydney Town Hall on August 24, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)