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FILE - In this May 6, 2011, file photo, Emperor Akihito kneels down as he speaks with a woman during his visit to a refugee center in Kamaishi, a city severely damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The outpouring of emotion was earned through much smaller moments, such as his visit in 2011, wearing a windbreaker instead of his usual suit, to see victims of a massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

AP Analysis: New Japanese emperor looks to match father

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 7, 2013, file photo, Japanese Empress Michiko watches a concert of the Gakushuin university's alumni in which Crown Prince Naruhito plays the viola at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Tokyo. Japan’s Emperor Akihito, abdicating Tuesday, April 30, 2019, has a relatively small family, and it will shrink in coming years. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Naruhito’s ascension will shrink Japan’s imperial heirs to 2

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and KAORI HITOMI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2016, file photo, provided by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Japan's Emperor Akihito reads a message for recording at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Akihito expressed concern about fulfilling his duties as he ages in an address to the public in a 10-minute recorded speech broadcast on national television that was remarkable for its rarity and its hinted possibility that he may want to abdicate in a few years. Akihito is ending his three-decade reign Tuesday, April 30, 2019 as he abdicates to his son, Crown Prince Naruhito, becoming the first to do so in 200 years, in a step nobody today has witnessed. (Imperial Household Agency of Japan via AP, File)

Key questions and answers about Japan emperor’s abdication

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Oct. 1, 1960, file photo, Crown Prince Akihito is photographed while on a boat trip around Manhattan Island sight-seeing in New York. In the background is the Statue of Liberty. The Japanese royals were in New York as part of their state visit. When he abdicates April 30, 2019, Akihito will become the first emperor in Japan’s modern history to see his era end without ever having a war. (AP Photo)

Emperor Akihito saw diplomacy as path to make amends for war

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2019. The meeting comes on the heels of the recent nuclear talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump optimistic about Japanese trade deal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2019. The meeting comes on the heels of the recent nuclear talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Latest: Trump confident about new US-Japan trade deal

Associated Press

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2019. The meeting comes on the heels of the recent nuclear talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump upbeat on potential for US-Japan trade deal

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at the V4+Japan summit in Bratislava, Slovakia, Thursday, April 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Donald Trump to host Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at White House

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Japan father, son win release before US trial in Ponzi case

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 30, 2013, file photo, Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako arrive at the Nieuwe Kerk or New Church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander. Japan’s soon-to-be-anointed new emperor is a musician and historian, both mild-mannered and quietly tenacious, a team player and a loyal husband and friend who will bring an unusually global perspective to an ancient institution when he ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1, 2019. Because Naruhito, 59, will be more distanced from the World War II shadows that his 85-year-old father, Akihito, labored under, he may also enjoy greater liberty in shaping the contours of his reign. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

Japan’s new emperor Naruhito: A cosmopolitan team player

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and KAORI HITOMI - Associated Press

In this April 2, 2019, file photo traders Neal Catania, left, and Benjamin Tuchman work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Donald Trump end to Iran oil waivers threatens to energy markets

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 6, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands before a bilateral meeting at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo. Trump will make a state visit to Japan at the end of May 2019 to meet the nation's new emperor. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Japan using emperor, first lady’s birthday to court Donald Trump

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

President Trump to visit Japan in late May, meet new emperor

Associated Press

Japanese Emperor Akihito, second right, visits Ise Grand Shrine, or Ise Jingu, in Ise, central Japan Thursday, April 18, 2019. This is the last trip to a local region for emperor and empress before emperor's abdication.(Kazushi Kurihara/Kyodo News via AP)

Emperor performs ritual to report abdication to Shinto gods

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Kosuke Kitajima, a four-time Olympic swimming gold medalist attends a press conference in Tokyo Thursday, April 18, 2019. Kitajima helped Tokyo Olympic organizers launch their ticket website on Thursday, which is where only Japan residents can buy tickets when they go on sale in Japan on May 9. But the useful site can also be accessed by people outside Japan, where basic prices are listed along with the full competition schedule. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP)

Ticket sales: The least understood side of the Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 6, 2019 file photo, Carole Ghosn, wife of Nissan's former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, walks to a car waiting at the entrance of Tokyo Detention Center, where her husband is detained in Tokyo. The wife of Carlos Ghosn, the former chairman of Nissan and Renault, said Wednesday, April 17 she was worried whether her husband, detained in Japan on financial misconduct allegations, will get a fair trial, and she expressed outrage over a justice system that dragged him back into custody. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Nissan ex-chair Ghosn’s wife fears his trial may be unfair

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this March 5, 2019, photo, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dick Cole speaks with well-wishers following a ceremony at Hurlburt Field in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on marking the 75th anniversary of Operation Thursday. Retired Lt. Col. Richard &quot;Dick&quot; Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders who carried out the daring U.S. attack on Japan during World War II, has died at a military hospital in Texas. He was 103. A spokesman says Cole died Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, File)

Doolittle Raiders’ Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole dies

By Jim Roberts

FILE - In this June 18, 2018, file photo, containers are piled up to be exported at a port in Tokyo. Japan’s exports declined in March as shipments to China dropped more than 9%, pulling the nation’s trade surplus sharply lower, according to the data released Wednesday, April 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan reports exports, trade surplus slid in March

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, left, and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi attend a group photo event before the Japan-China high level economic dialogue at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Sunday, April 14, 2019.(Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP)

China, Japan tout ‘recovered’ ties amid global uncertainty

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, eight from left, and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, ninth from right, attend the Japan-China high level economic dialogue at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Sunday, April 14, 2019.(Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP)

China, Japan tout ‘recovered’ ties, aim to ‘take charge of the economic field’

By Yanan Wang - Associated Press