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Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, left, and former Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba attend a speech session for the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election at its headquarters in Tokyo Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. The official campaigning to lead Japan's ruling party began Tuesday with the longtime right-hand man of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe now seen as a top candidate and his likely successor to lead the government. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Campaign to succeed PM Abe as party leader begins in Japan

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

The roof of a car factory is left on the sidewalk after a typhoon hit Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. The second powerful typhoon to slam Japan in a week left people injured, damaged buildings, caused blackouts at nearly half a million homes and paralyzed traffic in southern Japanese islands before headed to South Korea. (Kyodo News via AP)

Typhoon lashes South Korea after battering Japanese islands

By Kim Tong-hyung and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this April 29, 2020 file photo, a sign displaying the size of the national debt is displayed along an empty K Street in Washington. The Congressional Budget Office has warned that the government this year will run the largest budget deficit, as a share of the economy, since 1945, the year World War II ended. Next year, the federal debt — made up of the year-after-year gush of annual deficits — is forecast to exceed the size of the entire American economy for the first time since 1946. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

AP Explains: US debt will soon exceed size of entire economy

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

This Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, satellite image released by NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) shows Typhoon Haishen barreling toward the Okinawa islands in southern Japan on Saturday, prompting warnings about torrential rainfall and fierce wind gusts. Weather officials have cautioned about Typhoon Haishen for the last several days, urging people to brace for what could be a record storm and be ready to take shelter and stock up on food and water. (NASA via AP)

Typhoon unleashes rain, strong winds in southern Japan

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Former Nissan Motor Co.'s executive Greg Kelly arrives at a district court in Tokyo, on June 24, 2019. Kelly's trial in Tokyo District Court opens Sept. 15, nearly two years after his arrest, and the same day he turns 64 . If convicted of charges related to alleged under-reporting of former chairman Carlos Ghosn's income, Kelly could face up to a decade in prison. (Kyodo News via AP)

Nissan’s Ghosn gone, American Kelly faces Japan trial alone

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

A child salutes for a photo near statues of Chinese military honor guards at the military museum in Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. Seventy-five years after Japan's surrender in World War II, and 30 years after its economic bubble popped, the emergence of a 21st century Asian power is shaking up the status quo. As Japan did, China is butting heads with the established Western powers, which increasingly see its growing economic and military prowess as a threat. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Analysis: China’s rise takes the world into uncharted waters

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

FILE—This Dec. 30, 2019 image from security camera video shows Michael L. Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport in Turkey. A federal judge has ruled that the Taylor and his son, accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan while he was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges, can be extradited. (DHA via AP)

Judge OKs extradition for men accused of aiding Ghosn escape

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press

Former Nissan Motor Co.'s executive Greg Kelly arrives at a district court in Tokyo, on June 24, 2019. Kelly's trial in Tokyo District Court opens Sept. 15, nearly two years after his arrest, and the same day he turns 64 . If convicted of charges related to alleged under-reporting of former chairman Carlos Ghosn's income, Kelly could face up to a decade in prison. (Kyodo News via AP)

Nissan’s Ghosn gone, American Kelly faces Japan trial alone

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2020, file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listens to a reporter during a joint news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. Guterres on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, has urged Japan and other wealthy nations to give up their reliance on coal and other fossil fuels and commit to investments in green energy as they recover from the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

UN chief urges Japan, others to meet goals on climate change

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

The 11,947-ton Gulf Livestock 1 cargo vessel sails through Port Phillip Heading into Bass Strait Victoria in Australia, April 6, 2019. Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, for the livestock ship carrying 42 crew members and 5,800 cows that a survivor said sank during rough weather a day earlier off a southern Japanese island, according to the coast guard. (AP Photo/Graham Flett)

2nd survivor rescued after livestock ship sinks off Japan

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2015, file photo, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo after the release of an online video that purported to show an Islamic State group militant beheading Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. Suga, a longtime loyal assistant and the public face of outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in daily media briefings, has emerged as a favorite to succeed him in an upcoming internal party vote. Suga is set to announce his candidacy and key policies later Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Abe’s assistant and spokesman seen as favorite successor

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Aug. 15, 2020, photo, signed surrender documents from World War II are shown on the USS Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Some veterans and government officials will gather Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Hawaii to mark the 75th anniversary of the surrender. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

VJ Day celebration goes virtual due to pandemic

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this July 10, 2020, file photo Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks during a briefing at U.S. Southern Command in Doral, Fla. Mr. Esper delivered remarks at Pearl Harbor on Sept. 2, 2020, to mark the 7th anniversary of the end of World War II when representatives of the Empire of Japan signed formal surrender papers aboard the USS Missouri. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) **FILE**

Defense Secretary Esper in Hawaii honors end of WWII

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2019, file photo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Japan’s top government spokesman Suga, a longtime right-hand man for the outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has emerged as a top successor candidate Tuesday, Sept. 1, as party executives met to decide logistics of a party presidential election expected in mid-September. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Who’s next? Abe’s party maneuvers to pick Japan’s next PM

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 1945, file photo, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, left, watches as the foreign minister Manoru Shigemitsu of Japan signs the surrender document aboard the USS Missouri on Tokyo Bay. Lt. General Richard K. Sutherland, center, witnesses the ceremony marking the end of World War II with other American and British officers in background. Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, is the 75th anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when the two sides signed documents officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in the Tokyo Bay, with an armada of American warships and planes hovering nearby. (AP Photo/C.P. Gorry, File)

5 things to know about Japan’s World War II surrender

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

High waves crash a shore as Typhoon Maysak approach on Jeju Island, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. An offshore typhoon brought torrents of rain to southern Japan on Wednesday heading to the Korean Peninsula. (Park Ji-ho/Yonhap via AP)

Strong rains hit southern Japan as Koreas ready for typhoon

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Hidekazu Tamura, 99, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tokyo Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Amid commemorations for Wednesday's 75th anniversary of the formal Sept. 2 surrender ceremony that ended WWII, Tamura, a former Japanese American living in California, has vivid memories of his time locked up with thousands of other Japanese-Americans in U.S. intern camps. Torn between two warring nationalities, the experience led him to refuse a loyalty pledge to the United States, renounce his American citizenship and return to Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

75 years later, Japanese man recalls bitter internment in US

By EMILY WANG - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wearing a face mask, arrives at Prime Minister's office in Tokyo, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Abe, said Friday, he is stepping down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Yoshihide Suga, Fumio Kishida, Shigeru Ishiba emerge as potential Shinzo Abe successors

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

PGA Tour event in Japan to relocate to California this year

By DOUG FERGUSON - Associated Press

A broken tree blocks a road as a powerful typhoon blew over Naha city, Okinawa, southern Japan Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Warnings issued for the area around Okinawa, home to U.S. military bases, said strong gusts could cause some homes to collapse and extremely high tides were a risk as well. (Kyodo News via AP)

Strong typhoon sweeps southern Japan, heads to Koreas

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press