A woman wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus visits shrine in Tokyo, Wednesday, Februaury 10, 2021. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)
Customers stand at a restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, 26 January 2021. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that it has confirmed that 1,046 new people have been infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Tokyo. As Japan’s capital and 10 other prefectures are still in a second state of emergency, restaurants and bars are asked to close by 20h. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)
A large boulder sits on a road after an earthquake hit the city, in Soma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, February 14, 2021. A strong earthquake hit off the coast of northeastern Japan late Saturday, shaking Fukushima, Miyagi and other areas, but there was no threat of a tsunami, officials said. (Photo by Hironori Asakawa/Kyodo News via AP Photo)
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk at a crossing in Tokyo, Monday, February 15, 2021. Tokyo is under state of emergency as the government seeks to stop a surge of new coronavirus infections. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)
This picture taken on January 16, 2021 shows Hiroyuki Wada, who runs a vintage car service company, standing next to a 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille after a gathering of auto enthusiasts in Tokyo. A loose club of fans rolls up most weekends in central Tokyo to show off their Cadillacs, Chevrolets and other modern classic vehicles from the mid to late 20th century. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)
This picture taken on February 4, 2021 shows a “shinkansen”, or high speed bullet train, N700A series, leaving Tokyo at dusk as Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain at 3,776 meters (12,388 feet), looms in the distance. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP Photo)
Women wearing traditional outfits chat during subdued Lunar New Year celebrations on February 12, 2021 in Yokohama, Japan. Yokohama’s Chinatown, the largest in Japan, has imposed restrictions on celebrations marking Lunar New Year as the country continues to grapple with the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic which has so far accounted for 6,800 deaths from 412,124 recorded infections. (Photo by Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images)
A woman waits outside a love hotel in an area informally known as Love Hotel Hill on February 12, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. With less restrictive rules on movement than many other countries, Japans love hotels have fared relatively well during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. However, in a country where, according to government research, over 40 percent of men and women aged 18-34 have never had sеx and with its current population of 126 million forecast to plunge one third by 2060, the nations multibillion dollar love hotel industry is likely to face an uncertain future. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Costumes for sale are displayed in a brochure in a love hotel on January 19, 2021 in Niigata, Japan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Participants in a mock inoculation exercise wait their turn, as Japan prepares for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign, at a college gym in Kawasaki, Japan, January 27, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
Staff members of Kawaii Monster Cafe called “Monster Girls” send off guests before the cafe ends its five-year run operation on the day, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan on January 31, 2021. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)
Staff members of an Izakaya, a Japanese-style dining bar, prepare to close around 20:00 local time, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan on February 2, 2021. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)
A staff member of a library tries to restore books after they fell from book shelves by a strong earthquake at Iwaki City library in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, February 14, 2021. The 7.3 magnitude quake struck shortly before midnight Saturday and cracked walls, shattered windows and set off a landslide in Japan’s Fukushima, the area closest to the epicenter. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)
“Hina” dolls depicting U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, right, are displayed for Girls’ Day celebrations at Kyugetsu, a Japanese traditional doll company, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 in Tokyo. The dolls are among others adorned with images based on persons of the year. March 3 is celebrated as Girls’ Day to pray for the vigorous growth of girls in the family. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
A liquor shop’s manager clears the damaged bottles following an earthquake in Fukushima, northeastern Japan Saturday, February 13, 2021. The Japan Meteorological Agency says a strong earthquake has hit off the coast of northeastern Japan, shaking Fukushima, Miyagi and other areas. (Photo by Jun Hirata/Kyodo News via AP Photo)
A man wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus is reflected on mirrors on the wall of a tailor shop in Tokyo, Monday, February 1, 2021. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)
Demonstrators turn on their mobile phone torches as they protest against Myanmar military coup, in Tokyo, Japan, February 11, 2021. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)
Water covers a floor of Fukushima station as it leaks from a ceiling following an earthquake in Fukushima, northeastern Japan Saturday, February 13, 2021. A strong earthquake hit off the coast of northeastern Japan late Saturday, shaking Fukushima, Miyagi and other areas, but there was no threat of a tsunami, officials said. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)
Shuhei Okawara, owner of mask shop Kamenya Omote, wearing Hyper-realistic face mask poses for a portrait on January 28, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. The masks, made by Japanese retailer Kamenya Omote, are modelled on actual people who are paid 40,000 Yen for the right to use their face and are created on a 3D printer before being sold for up to 98,000 Yen. Although providing quite a party piece, unfortunately they don’t offer protection from coronavirus. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)
Stone lanterns lie collapsed after a strong earthquake at a graveyard near the entrance to the Zuihoden mausoleum complex in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, Sunday, February 14, 2021. The temblor late Saturday shook the quake-prone areas of Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. (Photo by Yohei Nishimura/Kyodo News via AP Photo)
A performer wearing a lion mask performs the Ise Daikagura lion dance at the remote village of Yamanawa on February 08, 2021 in Ryuo, Japan. Ise Daikagura is a group of traditional Lion Dance performers who pray in front of farmers houses and businesses for good grain harvests and disease-free lives. Performers play sacred music using drums and flutes with two lion mask dancers. A lion mask is considered a symbol of God, who enters the house and performs in front of the Shinto God, a statue placed inside the house, mostly in the kitchen. These prayers are called “Kamodo Barai”. After the prayers, they are gifted with money, rice, sake and Japanese sweets from the householders. A group can travel for more than one hundred days to thousands of households and businesses throughout rural-villages in western Japan, and pray to those who are unable to visit the country’s most sacred shrine, the Grand Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture. The group started its performance in the Edo era between 1603 to 1868 according to Japanese history. The Japanese government designated it as an important folk cultural national property in 1981. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)
