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Akie Abe, wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, carries her husband's urn, as she leaves his state funeral at Nippon Budokan, in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Japanese former leader Abe honored at divisive state funeral

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands before the Japan-USA bilateral meeting at the Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)

In Tokyo, VP Harris calls U.S.-Japan alliance ‘a cornerstone’

By Chris Megerian and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, center left, is welcomed by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before their meeting at the Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)

Kamala Harris meets with Japan’s PM, touts ‘cornerstone’ alliance amid rising tensions with China

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Kishida has said his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification Church following a widening scandal trigged by former leader Shinzo Abe's assassination last month. A prominent European religious freedom group wants the top United Nations human rights body to examine what it claims has been a "campaign of intolerance, discrimination, and persecution of the Unification Church" in Japan following the July assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, Pool) **FILE**

Rights group questions backlash against Unification Church after Abe assassination

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

China's President Xi Jinping greets the media prior to a meeting of leaders of the BRICS emerging economies at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Nov. 14, 2019. Xi has landed Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, started his first foreign trip abroad since the outbreak of the pandemic ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool, File)

China’s Xi visits Kazakhstan ahead of summit with Putin

Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, gestures while speaking to Chairman of National People's Congress Li Zhanshu during their talks on the sideline of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Egor Aleyev/TASS News Agency Host Pool Photo via AP)

China-Russia war games underway near Japan

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Raymond Greene, center, delivers a speech as Japanese Parliamentary Vice Minister for Defense Kimi Onoda, left, and Embassy of the Philippines Chargé d'Affaires Robespierre Bolivar, right, listen in during an opening session of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on U.S. Japan Philippines cooperation in maritime security Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Tokyo. Maritime security experts from the United States, Japan, and the Philippines meet to discuss trilateral maritime security cooperation. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) ** FILE **

Japan, U.S., Philippines to step up maritime security ties

By HARUKA NUGA - Associated Press

Toyota invests in EV battery production in Japan, U.S.

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, Pool)

Japan PM apologizes for party’s church links, will cut ties

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged assassin of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gets out of a police station in Nara, western Japan, on July 10, 2022, on his way to local prosecutors' office. A glimpse of Yamagami's painful childhood has led to a surprising amount of sympathy in Japan, where three decades of economic malaise and social disparity have left many feeling isolated and unease. (Nobuki Ito/Kyodo News via AP, File)

Abe murder suspect says life destroyed by mother’s religion

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media as he arrives at the prime minister's office for a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020. Japan's national police chief on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, said he wants to step down to take responsibility over the fatal shooting of the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at a campaign speech last month. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan police chief to resign over Abe shooting death

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

People wearing face masks are seen at an arrival lobby of Haneda airport in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2022, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday announced plans to ease border controls from early September by eliminating requirements for pre-departure COVID-19 tests for travelers who have received at least three vaccine doses, and he will also consider increasing daily entry caps as soon as next month. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan to ease COVID-19 border controls from Sept. 7

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, speaks to media at the Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, July 8, 2022. Kishida has tested positive for for COVID-19 on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, FILE)

Japan prime minister tests positive for COVID, isolates

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

Unification Church followers hold signs during a rally in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, protesting negative Japanese media coverage of their religion after the suspect in the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe blamed the church for his family’s troubles. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Unification Church followers decry ‘biased’ Japanese media

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Visitors in old Japanese Imperial army uniforms enter Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Tokyo. Japan marked the 77th anniversary of its World War II defeat Monday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan marks WWII’s end, Kishida doesn’t mention aggression

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Doves fly over the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing during the ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (Kyodo News via AP)

Hiroshima vows nuke ban at 77th memorial amid Russia threat

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, second from left, is escorted by South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin Pyo upon her arrival at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (Lee Jung-hoon/Yonhap via AP)

Fallout from Taiwan visit follows Pelosi on trips to South Korea, Japan

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, are seated close together during an east Asia summit foreign ministers meeting at Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Blinken is on a 10-day trip to Cambodia, the Philippians, South Africa, Congo and Rwanda. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Blinken: China military drills are ‘significant escalation’

By David Rising - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel speaks during an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, at the ambassador's residence in Tokyo. Emanuel says his government is working with Japan and other likeminded countries to counter Chinese attempts to use its economic might to force political change around the world. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

U.S. ambassador to Japan warns of Chinese economic coercion

By Foster Klug and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Legal expert Hiroshi Yamaguchi, holding a book related to the Unification Church, speaks during a news conference on the church and its activities at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Friday, July 29, 2022. A group of lawyers said Friday that the alleged assassin of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was one of many victims of the Unification Church, which has long cultivated ties with high-level Japanese politicians. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Lawyers say church caused suffering for Abe’s alleged killer

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press