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In this May 12, 2016, file photo, then Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) ** FILE **

Japan issues arrest warrant for Nissan ex-chair’s wife

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

A Lebanese woman with her puppy, passes by the house of ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. Ghosn earlier this week jumped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon rather than face trial on financial misconduct charges in a dramatic escape that has confounded and embarrassed authorities. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Japan vows to improve border checks, bail after Ghosn escape

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

A private security guard watches journalists through a closing garage door after a vehicle arrived at the house of ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. Ghosn earlier this week jumped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon rather than face trial on financial misconduct charges in a dramatic escape that has confounded and embarrassed authorities. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Japan says Ghosn’s escape inexcusable, orders investigation

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this March 6, 2019, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn travels in a car, in Tokyo, after posting 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) in bail once an appeal by prosecutors against his release was rejected. On Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, Japanese prosecutors raided the Tokyo home of Ghosn, who skipped bail while awaiting trial on financial misconduct allegations, and left for Lebanon. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko. File)

Ex-Nissan chief made escape to Beirut aboard charter flights

By SUZAN FRASER and YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this April 25, 2019, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention Center in Tokyo. A Japanese court has turned down an appeal from the lawyers of Ghosn over his bail conditions that limit his contact with his wife. Kyodo News service reported Thursday the Tokyo District Court rejected the appeal filed earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Interpol issues notice after Carlos Ghosn, former Nissan executive, jumps bail

By Bassem Mroue and Aj Naddaff - Associated Press

A motorbike passes the house of ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. The former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman fled Japan this week while awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges and appeared in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Ghosn lawyer outraged by Japan’s justice system and escape

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this March 6, 2019, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn travels in a car, in Tokyo, after posting 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) in bail once an appeal by prosecutors against his release was rejected. On Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, Japanese prosecutors raided the Tokyo home of Ghosn, who skipped bail while awaiting trial on financial misconduct allegations, and left for Lebanon. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko. File)

Lebanon receives Interpol wanted notice for Carlos Ghosn, Nissan ex-chair

By Bassem Mroue and Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 25, 2019, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves Tokyo's Detention Center for bail in Tokyo. By jumping bail, Ghosn, who had long insisted on his innocence, has now committed a clear crime and can never return to Japan without going to jail. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

What we know about ex-Nissan boss Ghosn’s escape to Beirut

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this May 11, 2012, file photo, then Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo. A close friend says Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, that Ghosn, who is awaiting trial in Japan, has arrived in Beirut. It was not clear how Ghosn, who is of Lebanese origins, left Japan where he is under surveillance and is expected to face trial in April 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Carlos Ghosn, ex-Nissan boss, now in Lebanon; he left Japan over ‘injustice’

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

FILE - This March, 2019, file photo shows former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, right, and his wife Carole in Tokyo. Ghosn, awaiting trial in Japan on financial misconduct charges, has received permission from a Tokyo court to talk for one hour in a video call with his wife. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Ex-Nissan boss Ghosn, facing Japan trial, arrives in Beirut

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019, photo provided by Sado Coast Guard Station shows a part of a boat on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, northern Japan. The boat suspected of being from North Korea with several bodies was found on the small island, the Japanese Coast Guard said Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. (Sado Coast Guard Station via AP)

Suspected North Korean boat with bodies found in Japan

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

This March 11, 2012, file photo, shows three melted reactors, from left, Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Japan revised a roadmap on Friday, Dec. 27, 2019, for the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup, further delaying the removal of thousands of spent fuel units that remain in cooling pools since the 2011 disaster. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan revises Fukushima cleanup plan, delays key steps

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2019, file photo, former South Korean comfort women, Lee Yong-soo, center, Lee Ok-seon and Gil Won-ok, right, leave the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday, Dec. 27, rejected a petition seeking the repeal of a 2015 deal with Japan settling a bitter dispute over Korean women enslaved for sex by the Japanese military during World War II. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

S Korea court rejects attempt to repeal Japan sex slave deal

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

People hold placards protesting against a troop dispatch to Middle East outside the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. Japan on Friday approved a contentious plan to send its naval troops to the Middle East to contribute to the peace and stability in the area and ensure the safety of Japanese ships transporting oil, a mission crucial to an energy-poor country that heavily depends on oil imports from the region. The placard at left reads: &quot;Oppose a dispatch of Japan Self-Defense Forces to Middle East.&quot; (Hiroki Yamauchi/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan OKs divisive plan to send naval troops to Mideast

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan's Minister of Justice Masako Mori speaks at a press conference on the execution of a convict Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019, in Tokyo. Japan on Thursday executed a Chinese death-row inmate convicted in the 2003 murder and robber of a family of four, including two children, as the country sticks to death penalty despite growing international move toward abolishing the system. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan executes first foreigner in 10 years in family murder

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 2018, file aerial photo shows preliminary construction work off Henoko, in Nago city, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, where the Japanese government plans to relocate a U.S. air base from one area of Okinawa's main island to another. A construction needed to improve the fragile structure underneath of a planned relocation site for a U.S. Marine Corps. base on Okinawa is to require twice as much time and cost than the previous estimate, adding more than a decade to the plan that has already been delayed for more than 20 years. The Defense Ministry on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019, said its latest estimate now shows that a relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP, File)

Time and cost of relocation of US base in Okinawa to double

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, walk to a photo session at the trilateral business meeting between China, South Korea and Japan in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. (Kyodo News via AP)

China, Japan, South Korea meet on North Korea, free trade

By ZHANG WEIQUN - Associated Press

FILE- In this May 9, 2018, file photo, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, pose for photographers prior to their summit in Tokyo. The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea are holding a trilateral summit in China this week amid feuds over trade, military maneuverings and historical animosities. Most striking has been a complex dispute between Seoul and Tokyo, while Beijing has recently sought to tone down its disagreements with its two neighbors.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

China, South Korea, Japan meet over trade, regional disputes

Associated Press

This January 2018, photo shows Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's F-35A stealth fighter at Misawa Air Base in Misawa, northern Japan. Japan approved Friday, Dec. 20 ,2019, a draft defense budget that included cost to develop own fighter jets to succeed the nation's aging warplanes and import some of F-35 stealth fighters as components for assembly at home rather than importing the expensive American warplanes as finished products to reduce costs and acquire expertise. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan Cabinet approves record defense budget for coming year

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2019, photo, Lee Ho-hyeon, left, director-general for International Trade Policy at South Korea's Trade, Industry and Energy Ministry, is shown the way by Yoichi Iida, director-general of Japan's Trade Control Department before a director-general level meeting at the trade ministry in Tokyo. Japan's trade ministry said Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, that it has eased controls on exports to South Korea of one of three chemicals used in semiconductors that it had restricted, a sign of a thaw between the two countries just days before their leaders meet in China. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan eases export controls against SKorea ahead of summit

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press