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A Look at Life in Japan

A Look at Life in Japan
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A woman crosses the street in the rain from Typhoon Mindulle as it moves off the coast Friday, October 1, 2021, in Tokyo. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)

A woman crosses the street in the rain from Typhoon Mindulle as it moves off the coast Friday, October 1, 2021, in Tokyo. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)

TV sets show a live footage of Fumio Kishida as he is named as Japan's new prime minister, at an electric store in Fukuoka, southern Japan Monday, October 4, 2021. Kishida was elected Japan's prime minister in a parliamentary vote Monday and will be tasked with quickly tackling the pandemic and other domestic and global challenges and leading a national election within weeks. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)

TV sets show a live footage of Fumio Kishida as he is named as Japan’s new prime minister, at an electric store in Fukuoka, southern Japan Monday, October 4, 2021. Kishida was elected Japan’s prime minister in a parliamentary vote Monday and will be tasked with quickly tackling the pandemic and other domestic and global challenges and leading a national election within weeks. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)

Firefighters work on an inundated road following an earthquake, in Tokyo, early Friday, October 8, 2021. A powerful earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, halting trains and subways. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)

Firefighters work on an inundated road following an earthquake, in Tokyo, early Friday, October 8, 2021. A powerful earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, halting trains and subways. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)

People wait at a train station in Tokyo early Friday, October 8, 2021, after a powerful magnitude 5.9 earthquake has shaken the Tokyo area late Thursday, temporarily halting trains and subways. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)

People wait at a train station in Tokyo early Friday, October 8, 2021, after a powerful magnitude 5.9 earthquake has shaken the Tokyo area late Thursday, temporarily halting trains and subways. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)

The status of the train services delayed by an earthquake are seen on a monitor at JR Tokyo station following an earthquake, in Tokyo, Thursday, October 7, 2021. A powerful earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, but officials said there was no danger of a tsunami. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)

The status of the train services delayed by an earthquake are seen on a monitor at JR Tokyo station following an earthquake, in Tokyo, Thursday, October 7, 2021. A powerful earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, but officials said there was no danger of a tsunami. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)

A train, above, of the Nippori-Toneri Liner, an automated guideway transit system, sits derailed in Tokyo Friday, October 8, 2021, following an earthquake on Thursday. The powerful earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, damaging underground water pipes and halting trains and subways. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)

A train, above, of the Nippori-Toneri Liner, an automated guideway transit system, sits derailed in Tokyo Friday, October 8, 2021, following an earthquake on Thursday. The powerful earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, damaging underground water pipes and halting trains and subways. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)

People wearing protective masks walk across a street in a shopping district Tuesday, October 12, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan fully came out of a coronavirus state of emergency for the first time in more than six months on Oct. 1. The country has started gradually easing virus measures to help rejuvenate the pandemic-hit economy as infections slowed. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)

People wearing protective masks walk across a street in a shopping district Tuesday, October 12, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan fully came out of a coronavirus state of emergency for the first time in more than six months on Oct. 1. The country has started gradually easing virus measures to help rejuvenate the pandemic-hit economy as infections slowed. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)

Lawmakers file out after the lower house was dissolved at an extraordinary Diet session at the lower house of parliament Thursday, October 14, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved the lower house of parliament Thursday, paving the way for Oct. 31 national elections. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

Lawmakers file out after the lower house was dissolved at an extraordinary Diet session at the lower house of parliament Thursday, October 14, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved the lower house of parliament Thursday, paving the way for Oct. 31 national elections. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

People walk in the rain Wednesday, October 13, 2021, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

People walk in the rain Wednesday, October 13, 2021, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

A woman receives the Moderna coronavirus vaccination in a pachinko parlour on October 13, 2021 in Osaka, Japan. The Freedom pachinko parlour offered its venue to local medical services to assist in the regional Covid-19 vaccination effort. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced yesterday that the government will begin administering third doses of coronavirus vaccine in December as the country looks to avoid a resurgence of the virus in winter. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

A woman receives the Moderna coronavirus vaccination in a pachinko parlour on October 13, 2021 in Osaka, Japan. The Freedom pachinko parlour offered its venue to local medical services to assist in the regional Covid-19 vaccination effort. Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced yesterday that the government will begin administering third doses of coronavirus vaccine in December as the country looks to avoid a resurgence of the virus in winter. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Visitors take photos with Tokyo's night view during “totally dark time” event, in which all electric lights are out and candlelight is used instead, at Sunshine City's Observatory, after COVID-19 controls were eased, in Tokyo, Japan, October 15, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Visitors take photos with Tokyo’s night view during “totally dark time” event, in which all electric lights are out and candlelight is used instead, at Sunshine City’s Observatory, after COVID-19 controls were eased, in Tokyo, Japan, October 15, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

A “masakaki” ritual ornament, center left, bearing the name of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, is placed as a man prays at Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo Sunday, October 17, 2021. Kishida donated the offerings Sunday to the Tokyo shrine viewed by China and the Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression, though he avoided a visit. (Photo by Masanori Takei/Kyodo News via AP Photo)

A “masakaki” ritual ornament, center left, bearing the name of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, is placed as a man prays at Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo Sunday, October 17, 2021. Kishida donated the offerings Sunday to the Tokyo shrine viewed by China and the Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression, though he avoided a visit. (Photo by Masanori Takei/Kyodo News via AP Photo)

Elementary school sumo wrestler Kyuta Kumagai competes in a sumo ring at a regional tournament of Junior Olympic Cup All-Japan Elementary School Sumo Championship in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Elementary school sumo wrestler Kyuta Kumagai competes in a sumo ring at a regional tournament of Junior Olympic Cup All-Japan Elementary School Sumo Championship in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Elementary school sumo wrestlers compete in the sumo ring during a regional tournament of Junior Olympic Cup All-Japan Elementary School Sumo Championship in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Elementary school sumo wrestlers compete in the sumo ring during a regional tournament of Junior Olympic Cup All-Japan Elementary School Sumo Championship in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Elementary school sumo wrestler Kyuta Kumagai competes in a sumo ring at a regional tournament of Junior Olympic Cup All-Japan Elementary School Sumo Championship in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Elementary school sumo wrestler Kyuta Kumagai competes in a sumo ring at a regional tournament of Junior Olympic Cup All-Japan Elementary School Sumo Championship in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Japan's Princess Mako, the daughter of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, walks towards the Three Palace Sanctuaries to pray ahead of her marriage at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan October 19, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. (Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)

Japan’s Princess Mako, the daughter of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, walks towards the Three Palace Sanctuaries to pray ahead of her marriage at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan October 19, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. (Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows volcanic fumes billowing from Mt. Aso as it erupts explosively in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on October 20, 2021. (Photo by Kyodo News vía AP Photo)

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows volcanic fumes billowing from Mt. Aso as it erupts explosively in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on October 20, 2021. (Photo by Kyodo News vía AP Photo)

Staff members disinfect the rings as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus during the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at the Kitakyushu City Gymnasium in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture on October 20, 2021. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)

Staff members disinfect the rings as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus during the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at the Kitakyushu City Gymnasium in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture on October 20, 2021. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)

A man walks by the logo on a Toyota car at a showroom in Tokyo on October 18, 2021. Toyota says it is testing hydrogen combustion engines in race cars as it works toward commercial applications of the technology. Such engines burn hydrogen as fuel instead of gasoline, much like rockets. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)

A man walks by the logo on a Toyota car at a showroom in Tokyo on October 18, 2021. Toyota says it is testing hydrogen combustion engines in race cars as it works toward commercial applications of the technology. Such engines burn hydrogen as fuel instead of gasoline, much like rockets. (Photo by Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)

Japan's Princess Mako in a car leaves her home in Akasaka Estate in Tokyo Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Mako and her commoner boyfriend Kei Komuro tied the knot Tuesday without wedding celebration in a marriage that has split the public opinion over her would-be mother-in-law’s financial controversy. (Photo by Chika Oshima/Kyodo News via AP Photo)

Japan’s Princess Mako in a car leaves her home in Akasaka Estate in Tokyo Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Mako and her commoner boyfriend Kei Komuro tied the knot Tuesday without wedding celebration in a marriage that has split the public opinion over her would-be mother-in-law’s financial controversy. (Photo by Chika Oshima/Kyodo News via AP Photo)

Raymond Hinze
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