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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) puts on an "ayamegasa" rush hat at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 29, 2023, as he meets young women serving as "ayame musume (iris girls)" while they promote an ongoing iris flower festival in the eastern Japanese city of Itako, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L) poses for a photo at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 29, 2023, with an "ayamegasa" rush hat on his head as he meets young women serving as "ayame musume (iris girls)" while they promote an ongoing iris flower festival in the eastern Japanese city of Itako, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Annual 'Ebisu' festival for business success begins

OSAKA, Japan - "Fuku musume," or good luck girls, clad in kimono and donning golden headwear resembling those of ancient Japanese court nobles hand out lucky charms of bamboo branches to visitors at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2015. The "Yoi Ebisu" (Eve of Ebisu) event preludes the main "Toka Ebisu" festival held annually through Jan. 11 during which people pray to Ebisu, the patron deity of commerce, for business success.

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Aizen Festival parade near Abeno Harukasu

OSAKA, Japan - One of "Aizen Musume" (girls of Aizen) smiles during a parade of the Aizen Festival near Abeno Harukasu in Osaka City on June 30, 2014.

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'Ayame musume' visit Prime Minister Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe receives a bouquet of flowers from young women serving as "ayame musume," daughters of the irises, from Itako, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, during their visit to the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 27, 2014.

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Visitors flock to Murakami Suigun Museum

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Visitors look at exhibited items at the Murakami Suigun Museum in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on May 5, 2014. Some 7,500 people visited the museum during this year's Golden Week holidays from April 26 to May 6, 2014, an all-time high, according to the museum. The high figure was possibly due to the popularity of the 2014 bookstore grand prix-winning novel "Murakami kaizoku no musume" (Daughter of Murakami Pirates) by Ryo Wada.

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SDF uses pop idols for recruitment poster in image revamp

TOKYO, Japan - A new Self-Defense Forces (SDF) recruitment poster features ''Morning Musume,'' an all-female Japanese pop group. Chronically undermanned, the SDF have ''gone pop'' in a novel recruitment drive to fill the ranks.

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Festival to wish for business success in Osaka

"Fuku musume" (lucky girls) put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2022, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival at which people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for success in business.

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Aizen Festival starts in Osaka

"Aizen Musume," a queen of Aizen Festival, waves to the crowd in Osaka on June 30, 2015, during the traditional festival heralding the advent of summer in the western Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aizen Festival starts in Osaka

"Aizen Musume," a queen of Aizen Festival, waves to the crowd in Osaka on June 30, 2015, during the traditional festival heralding the advent of summer in the western Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wisteria queens for 2015 debut at temple in Wakayama, western Japan

Haruka Horino (L) and Reika Noshita pose as "Fuji Musume" (Wisteria Maidens) for 2015 on April 15 at a temple in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, a tourist spot known for purple Wisteria flowers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Minatogawa Shrine

The main gate of Minatogawa Shinto Shrine seen from what is now Kobe Station, the starting point of the Tokaido Line in Chuo Ward. Probably taken in the mid-Meiji Period. The theater on the right is Daikoku-za, renovated in 1890. An ultra-modern lamp is installed at the front. This area was formerly an entertainment quarter bristling with shacks for plays, musume gidayu, acrobats, restaurants and so on.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐32‐0]

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Geikos presenting a performance

The two women seem to be imitating a musume-gidayu or female ballad-drama. A rice box is used as a lectern. The woman on the left is wearing a towel in comical style, while the woman on the right is pretending to play the shamisen lute with a broom and wooden rice scoop. Their elaborate attire probably elicited great laughter.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐10‐0]

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Aizen Festival parade near Abeno Harukasu

OSAKA, Japan - One of "Aizen Musume" (girls of Aizen) smiles during a parade of the Aizen Festival near Abeno Harukasu in Osaka City on June 30, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Business prosperity festival at Japanese shrine

"Fuku musume" or lucky girls put lucky charms on visitor's bamboo branches at Imamiya Ebisu shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2020, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu festival where people pray for business prosperity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Business prosperity festival at Japanese shrine

"Fuku musume" or lucky girls put lucky charms on visitor's bamboo branches at Imamiya Ebisu shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2020, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu festival where people pray for business prosperity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Campaigning for upper house election in Japan

Sayaka Ichii, a former member of the all-girl J-pop group Morning Musume, makes a speech in Tokyo on July 4, 2019, as official campaigning began the same day for the July 21 House of Councillors election, in which she is running for the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Campaigning for upper house election in Japan

Sayaka Ichii, a former member of the all-girl J-pop group Morning Musume, is pictured in Tokyo on July 4, 2019, before making a speech for the July 21 House of Councillors election, in which she is running for the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. Pictured on the left is party leader Yukio Edano. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Festival to wish for business success in Osaka

"Fuku musume" (lucky girls) put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival at which people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Festival to wish for business success in Osaka

"Fuku musume" (lucky girls) put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival at which people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commerce god festival in Osaka

"Fuku musume," or lucky girls, put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival where people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for their success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commerce god festival in Osaka

"Fuku musume," or lucky girls, put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival where people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for their success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commerce god festival in Osaka

"Fuku musume," or lucky girls, put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival where people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for their success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commerce god festival in Osaka

"Fuku musume," or lucky girls, put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival where people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for their success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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SDF uses pop idols for recruitment poster in image revamp

TOKYO, Japan - A new Self-Defense Forces (SDF) recruitment poster features ''Morning Musume,'' an all-female Japanese pop group. Chronically undermanned, the SDF have ''gone pop'' in a novel recruitment drive to fill the ranks. (Kyodo)