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A protester flashes an anti-Osprey placard at a gate of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, in southwestern Japan, on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, standing by a ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor, looks back as he speaks during his inspection tour to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2012. Japan deployed the PAC-3 system on the ministry compound in the middle of Tokyo to prepare for North Korea's planned launch of a long-range rocket starting Dec. 10. (Associated Press)
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This is an undated photograph of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who was the commander of Japan's Combined Fleet and planned the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. He was gunned down by the U.S. Army Air Force while inspecting the Northern Solomon Islands on April 18, 1943. Yamamoto was born in Japan in 1884 and studied at Harvard University in the U.S. (AP Photo)
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“Japan needs to be pushed. Japan needs to talk to Taiwan, Japan needs to talk to China.” — Yann-Huei Song of Taiwan’s Institute for European and American Studies (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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This image from video footage taped Sunday afternoon, Dec. 2, 2012, by the Yamanashi Prefectural Police shows collapsed concrete ceiling panels inside the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in central Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihino Noda, front left, U.S. President Barack Obama, center front, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, sitting right, attend the East Asia Summit at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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**FILE** From left: Japan's Yuji Nakazawa, Marcus Tulio Tanaka, Yasuyuki Konno and Makoto Hasebe celebrate June 24, 2010, following the World Cup group E soccer match between Denmark and Japan at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa. (Associated Press)
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Flat-panel TVs at a discount store in Tokyo attract a possible customer. Japan’s exports, already low because of a drop in global demand, have fallen further during the nation’s territorial dispute with China, and Japan’s economy shrank in the third quarter. Consumer spending and corporate capital spending declined, and forecasters expect the slide to continue in the fourth quarter. (Associated Press)
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A yellow crane sorts out the rubble of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at a collection site in northeastern Japan. Japan’s accounting of its budget for reconstruction from the disasters is crammed with spending on unrelated projects. (Associated Press)
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Ichiro Fujisaki, ambassador of Japan, offers remarks at the National Cherry Blossom Festival 2013 launch luncheon, held Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 at Hamilton Live in Washington, D.C. Although the ambassador will be leaving his post in the next few weeks, he said that he is considering coming back to Washington for the festival, because he believes that the blossoms here are even more beautiful than in Japan. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Stephen S.F. Chen, a senior adviser to the Taiwanese government, says in an interview at The Washington Times that Taiwan sides with China in its dispute with Japan over East China Sea islands coveted for their natural resources. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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**FILE** A Chinese submarine rescue ship sails in waters off the island of Yonaguni in Japan's Okinawa prefecture on Oct. 16, 2012. Japanese aircraft spotted seven Chinese warships in waters off the southern Japan island and about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the uninhabited isles at the center of a territorial dispute between the two countries. (Associated Press/Joint Staff Office of Japan)
