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Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks during a press conference at the prefectural government office in Naha in Okinawa, southern Japan, Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. Onaga said Monday he is preparing to revoke approval for work needed to relocate a U.S. military air base from one area of the southern Japanese island to another, just days after the work was restarted. &quot;We will take all possible measures to block base construction in Henoko, and this is the first step,&quot; Onaga told the news conference. (Hiroko Harima/Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Okinawa leader threatens to revoke approval to move U.S. base

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

People inside houses wait to be rescued as the houses are submerged in water flooded from a river in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Heavy rain is pummeling Japan for a second straight day, overflowing rivers and causing landslides and localized flooding in the eastern part of the country. (Kyodo News via AP)

Floods rage in Japan as helicopters pluck residents to safety

By Mari Yamaguchi and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Illustration on the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender to China by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LYUSHUN SHEN: Taiwan’s remembrance of World War II victory

By Lyushun Shen

Chinese President Xi Jinping is displayed on a screen as Type 99A2 Chinese battle tanks take part in a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China shows off rising power in marking WWII defeat of Japan

By Christopher Bodeen and Ian Mader - Associated Press

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, second from left, watches a Noh performance by local college students, with monk of Kiyomizu-dera Buddhist temple, Eigen Onishi, left, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, second from right, at the temple in Kyoto, western Japan, Friday, March 20, 2015. Noh is a form of classical Japanese musical drama. Kiyomizu-dera is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of Kyoto's most famous vistas. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Caroline Kennedy oversight of Japanese embassy slammed in IG report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on disputed territorial claims between the ROC and Japan over the Daioyutai islands by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

MA YING-JEOU: The Diaoyutai Islands are Republic of China’s territory

By Ma Ying-jeou

Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, sits on board a bathyscaphe as it plunges into the Black sea along the coast of Sevastopol, Crimea, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. President Vladimir Putin plunged into the Black Sea to see the wreckage of a sunk ancient merchant ship which was found in the end of May. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China, Russia to launch largest-ever joint navy exercise

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Japan had further plans for U.S.

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Abe has expressed "profound grief" for all who perished in World War II in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of the country's surrender. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Shinzo Abe, Japanese P.M., stops short of apology, voices ‘profound grief’ for WWII victims

By Maria Stainer - The Washington Times

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Abe has expressed "profound grief" for all who perished in World War II in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of the country's surrender. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Shinzo Abe, Japanese prime minister, stops short of apology for World War II

By Ken Moritsugu and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A yellow sheet covers a U.S. Army helicopter U-60 that crashed on the Navy cargo vessel USNS Red Cloud in the waters around 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of Japan's southern island of Okinawa Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. The helicopter crashed during a training mission while landing on the Navy ship, injuring several people and damaging the aircraft, officials said. (Ryosuke Uematsu/Kyodo News via AP)

U.S. Army helicopter crash-lands on ship off Japan island; 7 hurt

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This aerial photo shows reactors of No. 1, right, and No. 2, left, at the Sendai Nuclear Power Station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015. Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, it had restarted the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear plant as planned. The restart marks Japan's return to nuclear energy four-and-half-years after the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan following an earthquake and tsunami.(Kyodo News via AP)

Japan restarts reactor after break due to Fukushima

By Mari Yamaguchi and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Catholics listen the preaching at an early morning mass to pay respect to the victims of the Nagasaki atomic bombing at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, southern Japan Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015. On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, one on Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A miracle at Hiroshima — four Jesuits survived the atomic bomb thanks to the rosary

Catholic News Agency

A North Korean waitress walks through a door under a clock with Chinese emblems at a restaurant in Rason city in North Korea, in this Aug. 29, 2011, photo. North Korea said Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, that it will establish its own time zone next week by pulling back its current standard time by 30 minutes. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

North Korea push clocks back as a snub to Japan

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Illustration on the false growth of stimulus economies by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

J.T. YOUNG: Time to try real economic reform

By J.T. Young

A mushroom cloud rises moments after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945.

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Thank you, President Truman, for nuking Japan

By Judson Phillips

Minamikojima (foreground), Kitakojima, (middle right) and Uotsuri (background) are tiny islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File)

Inside China: Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s former president, says Senkaku islands belong to Japan

By Miles Yu

As the world reels from North Korea's nuclear posturing, survivors hope young and old will remember the commitment to peace that followed the hypermilitarized mania of imperial Japan — and the American bombs that crushed it. (Associated Press/File)

Japan marks 70th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing

By Kaori Hitomi and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media during a news conference on the first day of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotlan, in this July 30, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell, File)

Donald Trump boast to bring jobs back from China gets dumped on by economists

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press