Japan's Naomi Osaka visits Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary ahead of the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane on December 29, 2023. (Photo by Patrick Hamilton/AFP Photo)

Dancers walk on rice fields during the Rice Field Festival in Baginda Village. The Rice Field Festival, organized by the Baginda Village Youth Organization, was held to maintain the local culture and art of Sundanese culture on May 5, 2024. (Photo by Algi Febri Sugita/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)

People wearing face masks walk through Ginza area on December 27, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Japan announced it will close its borders to non-resident foreign nationals from tomorrow until the end of January after two people were discovered to be infected with a new strain of Covid-19 coronavirus that has begun spreading around the world. The country is also grappling with a surge in coronavirus infections, with Tokyo reporting 708 cases today. To date, Japan has recorded 218,453 infections, 3,052 deaths and 3,052 recoveries from the virus. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)

A long skater speeds away on the rain-wet ice on lake Orlangen, South of Stockholm on December 15, 2013. Meteorologists forecast temperatures around 5 degrees for southern Sweden. (Photo by Tobias Rostlund/AFP Photo)

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Russian honor guard soldiers warm up prior a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The parade will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9, to celebrate 72 years after the victory in WWII. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

Model Daisy Lowe has been camouflaged into a wall of daisies by world-leading body paint artist Carolyn Roper, to showcase the Samsung QLED TV's Ambient Mode feature in London, United Kingdom on August 2, 2018. The work took eight hours to complete. (Photo by Matt Alexander/PA Wire)

Amanda Lepore attends the Moschino x H&M – Front Row at Pier 36 on October 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Jean Pierre Augustin falls out of the ring after being hit by Chris Arreola during a Premier Boxing Champions Heavyweight Bout at AT&T Stadium on March 16, 2019 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)