Japan

Firdavs Atamuratov of Uzbekistan, left, competes with Mirzobek Umarov of Tajikistan during their men's modern 60kg mixed martial arts final at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Singapore athletes march into the stadium during the opening ceremony for the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A car moves to the wrong lane to avoid a damaged building that fell on the street in Yatsushiro, southern Japan, Friday, July 31, 2026, three days after an earthquake hit the area. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Festival participants carry Yasaka Shrine's Eastern Mikoshi back into the shrine's main hall following the "Mikoshi Arai" purification ritual ahead of the Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto, western Japan, Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Fred Mery)

Nine-year-old DJ Rinoka performs at Tokyo Dome before a Yomiuri Giants baseball game on May 24, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

This photo shows a small handful of rice that a person starts with when making sushi at a lesson for novices in Tokyo, on May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Priests and officials in the Shinto priesthood march during Yamaguchisai, a kickoff ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual, which concludes in 2033, at Kotaijingu, also known as Naiku, or the inner sanctuary, of the Jingu shrine complex in Ise, central Japan, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Shinto priests and a girl called "monoimi" march into the main palace of Toyoukedaijingu, also known as Geku, or the outer sanctuary, of the Ise Jingu shrine complex as they begin Yamaguchisai, a kickoff ceremony of Shikinen Sengu, which concludes in 2033, in Ise, central Japan, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Wrestlers train during a practice session at a sumo camp in Tottori Johoku High School in Tottori, Japan, on July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Yoshitaka Oishi and others chant "Orasho" prayers during their annual performance at the Ikitsuki Island Museum "Shima no Yakata" in Ikitsuki Island in Hirado, southern Japan, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

FILE - A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades closes in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts during World War II on Attu Island, Alaska, in June 1943. (U.S. Army via AP, File)

A Hello Kitty figure welcomes visitors at Sanrio Puroland during her 50th birth anniversary celebrations in Tama, a western suburb of Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)