In Photos: Japan's week in pictures

An apple is seen covered in mud after falling from a tree due to strong winds caused by Typhoon Hagibis in the city of Nagano, central Japan, on the morning of Oct. 14, 2019. (Mainichi/Junichi Sasaki)

American Simone Biles is seen performing a difficult technique in the final of the floor exercise in the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, on Oct. 13, 2019, in this composite photo. (Mainichi/Toshiki Miyama)

X Japan leader Yoshiki plays piano while models showcase his kimono fashion brand "Yoshikimono" during Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo 2020, at Shibuya Hikarie in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Oct. 14, 2019. (Mainichi/Daiki Takikawa)

Colorful autumn leaves are seen in the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in the central Japan town of Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter in October 2019. (Mainichi/Kenji Konoha)

Rescue team members search for missing people at the site of a landslide following heavy rain caused by Typhoon Hagibis in the northeastern Japan town of Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 16, 2019. (Mainichi/Yoshiyuki Hirakawa)

Seiryo High School hurler Yasunobu Okugawa is lifted up by his teammates in the city of Kanazawa on the Sea of Japan coast on Oct. 17, 2019, after being drafted by the Yakult Swallows. (Mainichi/Ryoichi Mochizuki)

A large sand sculpture is seen as part of the Ashiya Sand Craft Exhibition in the southwestern Japan town of Ashiya, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2019. (Mainichi/Tomohisa Yazu)

Items destroyed by Typhoon Hagibis are piled up at a temporary dump site in a park in the central Japan city of Nagano on Oct. 19, 2019. (Mainichi/Masahiro Ogawa)

Mr. Matsunaga, who lost his wife Mana and little daughter Riko in a car accident triggered by an elderly driver in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo in April, compares his hand with stamps of Riko's feet at their apartment in the capital's Toshima Ward on Sept. 16, 2019. (Mainichi/Masahiro Ogawa)

New Zealand's Aaron Smith scores a try in the first half of a Rugby World Cup quarterfinal match against Ireland at Tokyo Stadium (Ajinomoto Stadium) on Oct. 19, 2019. (Mainichi/Yuki Miyatake)

Volunteers with buckets and gloves cross a bridge over the Adatara River, which flooded due to Typhoon Hagibis, in the northeastern Japan city of Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 20, 2019. (Mainichi/Kota Yoshida)

A site where a small airplane crashed and burned is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Kasumigaura, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 20, 2019. (Mainichi/Akinori Miyamoto)

Takuya Haneda competes on his way to taking third place in the NHK Cup Canoe Slalom at the Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward on Oct. 20, 2019. Haneda qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (Mainichi/Takehiko Onishi)

Nobuhiro Matsuda, of the Softbank Hawks, shouts out after hitting a three-run homer against the Yomiuri Giants in a Nippon Professional Baseball Nippon Series championship game at Yahuoku! Dome in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Oct. 20, 2019. (Mainichi/Toyokazu Tsumura)

Japan's Yukinobu Ike, right, and Seiya Norimatsu move forward with the ball in the fourth period of their bronze medal match against Britain in the World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Oct. 20, 2019. (Mainichi/Junichi Sasaki)