Japan

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)

Seiko Noda, Japan’s minister of gender equality and children’s issues, speaks during a interview with AP in Tokyo, July 26, 2022. During the wide-ranging session, Noda, one of only two women in Japan’s Cabinet, discussed the country’s glaring gender gap, calling women “underestimated” in Japan. . Noda called the country’s record low births and plunging population a national crisis and blamed "indifference and ignorance" in the male-dominated Japanese parliament for the neglect. (AP Photo / Eugene Hoshiko)