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In this November 2010, photo, Japan's Yasuhiro Suzuki competes in the mens single kayak race at the 16th Asian Games in Shanwei, China. The top Japanese canoe sprinter has been banned for eight years, disqualifying him from the Tokyo Olympics, for lacing his rival's drink with a prohibited drug which caused him to fail a doping test. The Japan Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018 that Suzuki was banned for putting an anabolic steroid into the drink bottle of his rival at a national championship in September. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan kayaker banned for 8 years for spiking drink of rival

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Rangers open baseball, business deal with Japan’s Nippon Ham

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Japan’s Abe: N. Korea should change course, end nuke program

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Japan's Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers from the bullet-proofed balcony during New Year's public appearance with his family members at Imperial Palace in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. Akihito, who is handing the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son next year, is being showered with cheers from tens of thousands of New Year's well-wishers at the palace. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Akihito, Japan’s emperor, greets cheering crowd at palace for new year

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, sits with Finance Minister Taro Aso, right, for a Cabinet meeting at his official residence in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. Abe's Cabinet approved Japan's biggest 5.19 trillion yen ($46 billion) defense budget on Friday to bolster ballistic missile defense capability amid escalating threats from North Korea. (Hitoshi Takano/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan Cabinet OKs record $46 bln defense budget

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Friday Nov. 24, 2017 photo, conductor Johanna Weitkamp performs with the SAP orchestra in Mannheim, Germany. Some big corporations think performing Beethoven symphonies helps employees team up on projects at work, with the orchestras serving as a public relations tool while helping forge the creative teamwork that companies need to compete in the business world. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Get Bach to work: Company orchestras a German tradition

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

Mariners release LHP Albers so he can pitch in Japan

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FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2017, file photo, Japan Air Self-Defense Force demonstrates a training to utilize the PAC-3 surface to air interceptors at the U.S. Yokota Air Base on the outskirts of Tokyo. Japan’s Cabinet approved a plan Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, to purchase a set of costly land-based missile combat system from the U.S. to step up Japanese missile defense capability amid escalating threat from North Korea. The decision would allow the Defense Ministry to buy a set of two Aegis Ashore systems to add to Japan’s current two-step missile defense consisting of Patriot batteries and Aegis-equipped destroyers. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan approves missile defense system amid NKorea threat

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan's Kengo Kawamata, left, and South Korea's Jung Seunghyun, right, vie for the ball during their soccer match at the East Asian Championship in Tokyo, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP)

Kim Shin-wook scores twice, South Korea wins EAFF E-1 title

By SEAN CARROLL - Associated Press

Kansas soldier became hero when boat sank in Chinese river

By STEVE FRY - Associated Press

AP source: Martin headed to Rangers after 2 years in Japan

By SCHUYLER DIXON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 14, 2005 file photo, former U.S. Army deserter to North Korea, Charles Jenkins, together with his daughters Mika, rear left, and Brinda at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo. Jenkins, who married a Japanese abductee and lived in Japan after their release in the 2000s, has died. He was 77. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)

Ex-US deserter to NKorea who married Japanese abductee dies

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Boisvert-Lacroix, Kodaira win World Cup speedskating races

By JOHN COON - Associated Press

In this Dec. 4, 2017 image from an Associated Press Television video, the post-World War II memoirs composed by Japanese Emperor Hirohito are displayed at Bonham's suction house in New York. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, the two-volume, 173 page document, that offers the emperor's recollections of World War II has fetched $275,000 at an auction in New York. (AP Photo/Joseph B. Frederick, File)

Emperor Hirohito memoir bought by Japanese doctor

By TOM McELROY - Associated Press

In this Dec. 4, 2017 image from an Associated Press Television video, the post-World War II memoirs composed by Japanese Emperor Hirohito are displayed at Bonham's suction house in New York. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, the two-volume, 173 page document, that offers the emperor's recollections of World War II has fetched $275,000 at an auction in New York. (AP Photo/Joseph B. Frederick, File)

The Latest: Hirohito memoir bought by Japanese doctor

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North Korean women's national soccer team members are welcomed with their national flags waved upon arrival at Haneda international airport in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. North Korean women’s and men’s national soccer teams arrived in Tokyo as exception to Japan’s entry ban as part of ongoing sanctions against Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear development. North Korea is competing against Japan, China and South Korea in the upcoming E-1 Football Championship held in Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

North Korean national soccer teams in Japan for tournament

By SHIZUO KAMBAYASHI - Associated Press

FILE - In his Nov. 19, 2017, file photo, Dylan Frittelli of South Africa follows his shot on the 2nd fairway during the final round of the DP World Tour Championship golf tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Frittelli is playing the final two events of the year with a chance to get into the Masters. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Frittelli, Snedeker among those in final push for Masters

By DOUG FERGUSON - Associated Press

In this image from an Associated Press video, one volume of a two-volume, 173-page, post-World War II memoir composed by Japanese Emperor Hirohito is displayed at Bonhams Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in New York. The document was dictated by the Emperor to aides after the war and transcribed word-for-word by a senior diplomat. It was created at the request of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, whose administration controlled Japan at the time. The memoir, also known as the imperial monologue, covers events from the Japanese assassination of Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin in 1928 to the emperor's surrender broadcast recorded on Aug. 14, 1945. It is expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 at Bonhams' auction Dec. 6. (AP Photo/Joseph B. Frederick)

Memoir by Japanese Emperor Hirohito to be auctioned in NY

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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, Japan's Emperor Akihito, right, and Crown Prince Naruhito, left, walk at Haneda international airport in Tokyo. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, Emperor Akihito plans to abdicate on April 30, 2019, in the first such abdication in about 200 years. The emperor will be 85 by then.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan’s Emperor Akihito to abdicate on April 30, 2019

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

This image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea's KRT on Nov. 29, 2017, shows an image of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un signing what is said to be a document on Nov. 28, 2017, authorizing a missile test. After two and a half months of relative peace, North Korea launched its most powerful weapon yet early Wednesday, claiming a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could put Washington and the entire eastern U.S. seaboard within range. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. (KRT via AP Video)

The Latest: Japan says UN must keep pressure on NKorea

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