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In this Sept. 17, 2021, file photo, candidates for the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party pose prior to a joint news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo. Japan's governing party will vote Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, to pick its new leader who is presumed next prime minister with crucial tasks such as addressing a pandemic-hit economy and ensuring strong alliance with Washington amid growing security risks from China and North Korea. The contenders are, from left to right, Taro Kono, the cabinet minister in charge of vaccinations, Fumio Kishida, former foreign minister, Sanae Takaichi, former internal affairs minister, and Seiko Noda, former internal affairs minister. (Kimimasa Mayama/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ex-diplomat Fumio Kishida wins Japan party vote, to become new PM

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

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

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

Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, appeared Sunday to have cemented his chances of winning another three-year term next year and becoming Japan's longest-serving prime minister. (Associated Press)

Shinzo Abe wins Japan mandate before Donald Trump summit

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, June 29, 2017 photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike waves to a crowd during her “Tomin (Tokyoites) First” party's campaign rally for Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election in Tokyo. Tokyo residents were voting for the city's assembly in an election Sunday, July 2, 2017, that could alter national politics as the populist governor Koike aims to strengthen her base and challenge Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's scandal-laden ruling party. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Tokyo governor’s party heads for big win in city election

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Nago city Mayor Susumu Inamine and his wife Ritsuko cast their ballots in the mayoral election in Nago, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. The small-town mayoral election is being closely watched from Washington to Tokyo as a referendum on long-delayed plans to move a U.S. air base to the community of 62,000 people. Inamine, who opposes the move, faces pro-relocation candidate Bunshin Suematsu in the election. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

Japan says US base in Okinawa is only solution

By YURIKO NAGANO - Associated Press

Japan's newly-named Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiles as he waves at the media upon his arrival at the prime minister's official residence following his election at Parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Abe, whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors, is the country's seventh prime minister in just over six years. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Shinzo Abe returns as Japan’s prime minister

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe is all but certain to become Japan’s next prime minister after his party’s victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Mr. Abe resigned as prime minister for health reasons after just a year in the job in 2007. One of his goals is to recover Japan’s economic vitality of the 1980s and ‘90s. His nationalist policies could rile China, hurting the auto industry and others with huge investments in the fast-growing Chinese market. (Associated Press)

Nationalist Abe likely next prime minister of Japan

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Shinzo Abe, leader of the main Japanese opposition Liberal Democratic Party, answers a reporter's question at party headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday night, Dec. 16, 2012. The conservative LDP stormed back into power in parliamentary elections Sunday after three years in opposition, exit polls showed, signaling a rightward shift in the government that could further heighten tensions with rival China. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

After landslide victory, Abe says Japan has difficult road

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

A boy slips his grandmother's vote into a ballot box at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Conservative LDP party wins in landslide in Japan

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will get a second chance to lead the nation after a stint in 2006 and 2007. (Associated Press)

Abe’s conservative party likely to win in landslide in Japan

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stands still as Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, second left, and Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, right, raise hands and shout banzai, or long live, after he dissolved the lower house of parliament in Tokyo Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan P.M. dissolves parliament; vote set for Dec 16

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

** FILE ** Japanese Prime Minister Shinzou Abe. (Associated Press)

Japanese nationalism may rise in next government

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Japanese debate whether to restart nuclear reactors

By Christopher Johnson - Special to The Washington Times

Japan to reshuffle cabinet

Japan to reshuffle cabinet