400 scarecrows line up along a road in Aomori Prefecture.

A beer garden opens on a platform in Nagoya Station.

The fishing season for red snow crab begins in Toyama Bay in central Japan.

The Owara Kaze no Bon dance festival takes place in Toyama, central Japan.

A new cafeteria featuring Japanese cuisine opens at Narita International Airport east of Tokyo.

Climber Miura Yuichiro, aged 90, reaches the summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, on a wheelchair.

The next-generation train system Utusnomiya Light Rail Transit starts operations north of Tokyo.

New bakeries are opening in Tokyo, keeping the industry thriving amid soaring wheat prices.

Six luxury pears fetch a record 170,000 yen in the season's first auction in central Japan.

At Tateyama Port west of Tokyo, some reports of dolphin sightings are made by fisherman from the shore.