A slow-shutter-speed photo captures the motion of commuters walking through Tokyo’s Shinagawa Station on Friday, July 4, 2025.(Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
Demonstrators hold a “protest rave” against racism and the nationalist party Sanseito in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district on Sunday, July 13, 2025, ahead of the upper house election.(Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)
A woman in a yukata (a casual summer kimono) poses for a photo among paper lanterns at the annual Mitama Festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 13, 2025. The shrine enshrines over 2.4 million war dead.(Photo by Manami Yamada/Reuters)
Shrine parishioners carry large flaming torches to purify the path for portable shrines during the 1,500-year-old Ogi Matsuri (Kumano Nachi Fire Festival) at Kumano Nachi Taisha Shrine in Nachikatsuura, Japan, on July 14, 2025.(Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
South Korean barber “V” gives a model a haircut during the World Barber Classic at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall on July 14, 2025.(Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)
Members of the Nakasu Nagare team carry a float, called a “Yamakasa,” through the sacred Seido Street of Kushida Shrine during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka, Japan, on July 15, 2025.(Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
Pyrotechnicians perform “Tezutsu Hanabi,” firing handheld fireworks from bamboo cylinders during the 460-year-old Toyohashi Gion Festival at Yoshida Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan, on July 18, 2025.(Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
A visitor poses for a photo at the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, on July 18, 2025.(Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
Election officials count ballots for Japan’s upper house election at a counting center in Tokyo on July 20, 2025.(Photo by Manami Yamada/Reuters)
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), places a red rose on the name of an elected candidate at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo on election day, July 20, 2025.(Photo by Franck Robichon/Pool vta Reuters)
Pedestrians pass an election board displaying candidates’ posters in Tokyo on July 20, 2025. The election was a critical test for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition.(Photo by Toru Hanai/Bloomberg)
Supporters of Japan’s nationalist Sanseito party leader celebrate during a rally in Tokyo on July 21, 2025, a day after the upper house election.(Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
Four toy poodles are seen at a sunflower installation in Tokyo on July 24, 2025, as a heatwave swept across Japan, with temperatures reaching 39.4°C (102.9°F) in Kyoto Prefecture.(Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)
Participants carry a portable shrine (mikoshi) into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival in Yokosuka, Japan, on July 27, 2025.(Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
Children dressed as “Kanabo-san,” who lead the festival procession, take a rest during the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival on July 27, 2025.(Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
Participants prepare to carry a portable shrine (mikoshi) into the sea for a purification rite during the Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival on July 27, 2025.(Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
Shinto priests observe the proceedings at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival on July 27, 2025.(Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
Participants immerse a portable shrine (mikoshi) in the sea during a purification rite at the Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival on July 27, 2025.(Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
Participants immerse a portable shrine (mikoshi) in the sea during a purification rite at the Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival on July 27, 2025.(Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
A woman rests inside an evacuation tower in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on July 30, 2025, after a tsunami warning was issued for Japan’s Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.(Photo by Kyodo News via Reuters)
