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China urges Japan to ensure rights of 2 in shrine protest

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People stage a protest as construction workers start dumping a truckload of sediment into the sea at Henoko on Okinawa's east coast Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. Japan's central government has started main reclamation work at a disputed U.S. military base relocation site on the southern island of Okinawa despite fierce local opposition. (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan begins reclamation at disputed US base despite protest

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2018, file photo, Japan's Coast Guard ship, top, and U.S. military plane are seen at sea off Kochi, southwestern Japan, during a search and rescue operation for missing crew members of a U.S. Marine refueling plane and fighter jet. The U.S. Marine Corps have declared that five crewmembers dead after their aircraft crashed last week off Japan’s southern coast and that their search has ended. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

US military identifies 5 dead in warplanes crash off Japan

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1 of 5 Marines killed in crash off Japan was from Illinois

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In this May 12, 2016, photo, then Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during a joint press conference with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. in Yokohama, near Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court decided Ghosn and another executive Greg Kelly, both arrested Nov. 19 for allegedly falsifying financial reports to underreport Ghosn's pay, will remain in custody through Dec. 20. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Arrest of Nissan star Ghosn raises speculation over coup

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2018, file photo, Japan's Coast Guard ship, top, and U.S. military plane are seen at sea off Kochi, southwestern Japan, during a search and rescue operation for missing crew members of a U.S. Marine refueling plane and fighter jet. The U.S. Marine Corps have declared that five crewmembers dead after their aircraft crashed last week off Japan’s southern coast and that their search has ended. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

5 missing Marines declared dead in warplanes crash off Japan

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

US military’s Aegis system intercepts test missile in Hawaii

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Japan seeks 1st aircraft carrier to deploy stealth fighters

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Tokyo Detention Center, where former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn is being detained, stands in Tokyo Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. Tokyo prosecutors say Ghosn, who was arrested on Nov. 19, is suspected of underreporting income by 5 billion yen ($44 million) over five years. Japanese media are reporting that the government Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission is accusing Nissan as a company, along with Ghosn and another executive, of underreporting income. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Motor Co.’s former chairman, indicted for underreporting pay

By Yamaguchi and Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

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3 Key Issues for Pacific Alliance Institute

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Tokyo Detention Center, where former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn is being detained, stands in Tokyo Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. Tokyo prosecutors say Ghosn, who was arrested on Nov. 19, is suspected of underreporting income by 5 billion yen ($44 million) over five years. Japanese media are reporting that the government Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission is accusing Nissan as a company, along with Ghosn and another executive, of underreporting income. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The Latest: PM Abe says Japan-French ties unshakable

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The Commerce Alliance Against China

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In this July 11, 2018, photo, a worker sprays water next to heavy machineries at a construction site in Tokyo. Japan’s economy shrank at an annualized rate of 2.5 percent in July-September, a worse contraction than preliminary data indicated last month, the government said Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Japan’s economy contracts 2.5 pct in 3Q on weaker spending

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

United States' Carli Lloyd waves as she stands by the World Cup trophy, during the women's soccer World Cup France 2019 draw, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

US draws Sweden again for 2019 Women’s World Cup

By JEROME PUGMIRE and ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

In this Oct. 13, 2016, photo provided by U.S. Marine Corps, two F/A-18D Hornets with Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 533 approach a KC-130J with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 during a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command aerial refueling exercise in undisclosed location. On Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, two American warplanes crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Japan's southwestern coast after a midair collision, and rescuers found one of the seven crew members in stable condition while searching for the others, officials said. The U.S. Marine Corps said that the crash involved an F/A-18 fighter jet and a KC-130 refueling aircraft during regular training after the planes took off from their base in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima in western Japan. (Cpl. Trever Statz/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

US Marines ID dead crew member in Japan warplanes crash

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Nov. 28, 2018, photo, lawyer Shoichi Ibusuki, center, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, on the problems in Japan's technical intern program, with Eng Pisey, right, Cambodian technical trainee and Huang Shihu, left, Chinese technical trainee in Tokyo. Ibusuki, lawyer specializing in labor cases and supporting victimized foreign students and interns, called the internship program as a disguise to use trainees as mere cheap labor and should be scrapped and replaced with the new program underway. Japan is set to approve legislation that would officially open the door to foreign workers to do unskilled jobs and possibly eventually become citizens. Lawmakers were due to vote Friday, Dec. 7, on a government proposal to allow hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers to live and work in a country that has long resisted accepting outsiders. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan OKs divisive bill allowing more foreign workers

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this aerial photo, Japan's Coast Guard ship is seen at sea during a search operation for U.S. Marine refueling plane and fighter jet off Muroto, Kochi prefecture, southwestern Japan, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. A Marine refueling plane and a fighter jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Japan's southwestern coast after a midair collision early Thursday, and rescuers found one of the seven crew members in stable condition while searching for the others, officials said. The U.S. Marine Corps said that the 2 a.m. crash involved an F/A-18 fighter jet and a KC-130 refueling aircraft during regular training after the planes took off from their base in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima in western Japan. (Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: President lauds rescue efforts after Japan crash

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, photo, people walk past in front of a SoftBank shop at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. Some users of SoftBank cellphones had problems calling and text messaging for several hours in Japan. SoftBank Corp. spokesman Naomasa Suzuki said the problems started early Thursday afternoon, Dec. 6, 2018, and were gradually being fixed. He said they were caused by a mechanical problem in the 4G telecommunications systems. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

SoftBank cell functions down for several hours in Japan

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This March, 2018, photo shows a F/A-18 jet at United States Marine Corps air station in Iwakuni, western Japan. A search is under way off for crew members from two Marine Corps planes, a F/A-18 and a refueling plane, involved in what officials called a “mishap” off the coast of Japan, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. The Marine Corps says the incident involved an the planes that had taken off from a base on Okinawa for a regularly scheduled training mission. (Kyodo News via AP)

2 US warplanes crash off Japan; 1 crew dead, 5 missing

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A U.S. Navy sailor walks beside FA-18 fighter jets aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier in Hong Kong Thursday, June 19, 2008. The USS Ronald Reagan is currently visiting Hong Kong for a port visit. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

U.S. warplanes collide, crash into Pacific Ocean off Japan

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press