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FILE - In this March 25, 2014 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, center, watches South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, move to their seats at the opposite ends of the table to start their trilateral meeting shortly after they sat together with Obama to speak to the press at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in the Hague, Netherlands. The U.S. has 50,000 troops in Japan and about 28,500 deployed in South Korea, where it just concluded joint U.S.-South Korean exercises. But Tokyo and Seoul remain at odds over a separate territorial dispute and lingering Korean resentment of Japanese aggression before and during World War II. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - In this April 23, 2013 file photo, a Japan Coast Guard vessel, left, sails along with a Chinese surveillance ship near the disputed islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China in the East China Sea. Striving to allay Japan’s worries over its territorial dispute with China and missile launches by North Korea, during a recent Asian tour U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel pledged two more ballistic missile defense destroyers for Japan by 2017. In a further show of solidarity, Hagel rebuked Beijing for escalating its territorial dispute with Tokyo over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea, which Japan calls the Senkakus and China calls the Diaoyu islands. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Texas Rangers' Yu Darvish of Japan works against the Oakland Athletics in the first inning of a baseball game Monday, April 21, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
