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People observe a moment of silence in front of what is left of a disaster control center in an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Japan is marking the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing, turned coastal communities into wasteland and triggered a nuclear crisis. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japan marks 3rd anniversary of tsunami disasters

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Japan's public broadcaster NHK President Katsuto Momii speaks during a budget committee question and answer at the lower house of Parliament in Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appointment of new board members at Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has invited skepticism among many people that his motive may be to use the news giant to promote his nationalist agenda. Sure enough, minutes of a recent NHK governing board meeting suggest they were trying to exercise influence over programs. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Conservatives push agenda at Japan’s public TV

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Panel: Japan should lift ban on collective defense

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Tensions between China and Japan are being increasingly seen in the pre-World War I context of a rising nation — in this case, China — unable to overcome its differences with its neighbors and triggering a global war. (Associated Press)

Inside China: Beijing prefers the world to think WWII not WWI in terms of rising tensions

By Miles Yu

In this photo taken on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, Katsuto Momii, new president of public broadcaster NHK, holds a news conference at the start of his three-year term in Tokyo. Japan's top government spokesman Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga defended Momii for his remarks that the use of women as military prostitutes was common worldwide during World War II. NHK chairman Momii told a news conference Saturday to mark his appointment that &quot;comfort women&quot; existed in any country at war, not just Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Japan NHK boss under fire for comfort women remark

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, follows a Shinto priest to pay respect for the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Abe visited Yasukuni war shrine in a move sure to infuriate China and South Korea. The visit to the shrine, which honors 2.5 million war dead including convicted class A war criminals, appears to be a departure from Abe&#8217;s &#8220;pragmatic&#8221; approach to foreign policy, in which he tried to avoid alienating neighboring countries. It was the first visit by a sitting prime minister since Junichiro Koizumi went to mark the end of World War II in 2006. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japanese prime minister visits Yasukuni war shrine, irks China

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of a joint press conference following their meeting at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) ** FILE **

Joe Biden: China air zone raises risk of accidents

By Josh Lederman - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from right, with a red helmet) is briefed about a chemical dam by Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono (second from left) as the lawmaker inspects an area along the coast between the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors during his tour of the tsunami-crippled plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Japan Pool)

Japanese leader Shinzo Abe wants Fukushima nuke plant completely scrapped

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting in Moscow on Monday. It was the first Russian visit by a Japanese prime minister in 10 years. (Associated Press)

Inside China: Chagrined by Shinzo Abe’s Russia visit

By Miles Yu

** FILE ** Park Geun-hye (center), South Korea's new president, arrives for the official dinner at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Ms. Park took office as the country's first female president earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool)

Disputes in Asia pose challenge to Obama

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for a meeting Friday with President Obama in the Oval Office. Cybersecurity will be among the topics on the two leaders' agenda. (Associated Press)

Timing good for Japanese prime minister’s visit

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

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FEULNER: Conservative tide in Asia

By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times

World Briefs: Abe pledges to rebuild economy, U.S. relations

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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

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

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

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

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