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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, speaks during a meeting on countermeasures against the new coronavirus infections at his official residence in Tokyo Tuesday, March 10, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan unveils $4 billion package to fight virus

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2019, file, photo, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, shakes hand with China's President Xi Jinping, right, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi's state visit to Japan has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting both countries, Japan's chief government spokesman said Thursday, March 5, 2020. (Noel Celis/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Latest: China’s virus outbreak steady, with 143 new cases

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers his speech at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. During the speech Abe said that his government will create another emergency package totaling over 270 billion yen ($2.5 billion) from reserve funds to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, local media said. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan’s leader announces $2.5B package to help fight virus

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A man with a protective mask walks on a pedestrian bridge Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Tokyo. At a government task force meeting Wednesday on the virus outbreak, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he was asking organizers to cancel or postpone major sports or cultural events over the next two weeks. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan to close schools nationwide to control spread of virus

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Feb. 21, 2020. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should be basking in the limelight this year in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Instead, the virus outbreak that has spread from China to even remote parts of Japan has Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party playing defense. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

Outbreak, economic ills dim luster of Japan’s Olympic year

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, speaks to reporters at his official residence in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Abe said he is making arrangements to fly Japanese people home from the Chinese city of Wuhan, hit by an outbreak of a new virus recently. (Mizuki Ikari/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan: Flight readied for Japanese to come home from Wuhan

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi King Salman, right, receives Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Japan’s Abe meets Saudi king amid threats in Persian Gulf

By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY - 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

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

In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, file photo, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech at the Kuala Lumpur Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rouhani is to visit Tokyo to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, in hopes of easing nuclear impasse between Tehran and Washington and relieving tension in the Middle East. Friday's visit is the first by an Iranian prime minister in 19 years and comes just before Japan is expected to announce a plan to deploy its troops to the Middle Eastern seas to ensure the safety of Japanese vessels transporting oil from the region. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)

Iran’s Rouhani in Japan to meet Japan PM amid nuke impasse

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Abe said his country is arranging Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Japan as the country seeks to play a greater role in relieving tension in the Middle East where Japanese oil imports mainly come from. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan PM Abe says visit by Iran’s Rouhani being arranged

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Trump’s US-Japan trade deal wins Japan parliament approval

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to media at his office Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Tokyo. Abe has made history by becoming Japan’s longest-serving political leader, though he hasn’t achieved his biggest goal of revising the nation’s pacifist constitution. (Kyodo News via AP)

Abe becomes Japan’s longest-serving prime minister

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai speaks to reporters after submitting his resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. Kawai resigned over election fraud allegations involving his wife, also a lawmaker, and about his own gift-giving allegations reported in a tabloid magazine. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan justice minister resigns in election payments scandal

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prior to their meeting at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Abe held talks with Lee in a first high-level meeting amid tension between the two neighbors over trade and wartime history. Lee, known as Japan expert, attended Emperor Naruhito’s enthronement ceremony Tuesday and was expected to propose improving ties. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Abe, S. Korean premier agree to keep talking to mend ties

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Emperor Naruhito delivers his speech during the enthronement ceremony where the emperor officially proclaims his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

Japanese Emperor Naruhito ascends Chrysanthemum Throne

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A man carries household goods out of a flooded house in Motomiya, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. Typhoon Hagibis dropped record amounts of rain for a period in some spots, according to meteorological officials, causing more than 20 rivers to overflow. Some of the muddy waters in streets, fields and residential areas have subsided. But many places remained flooded, with homes and surrounding roads covered in mud and littered with broken wooden pieces and debris. (Kyodo News via AP)

More victims, more damage found in Japan typhoon aftermath

By Haruka Nuga and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this May 24, 2018, file photo, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is interviewed on the "Fox & Friends" television program, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Newt Gingrich rallies Asia allies at Japan Summit

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Japan's Emperor Naruhito reads a statement to open formally an extraordinary session at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Abe wants summit with North Korea, keeps distance from South

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Akio Toyoda, center, the President and CEO of Toyota Motor Co., with the group of the Japanese automakers chiefs speaks to Japanese Trade Minister Isshu Sugawara, not in picture, during a meeting Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, in Tokyo. The U.S. and Japan on Wednesday signed a limited trade deal that will eliminate tariffs and expand market access on farm, industrial and digital products. But the deal does not address autos, a key sticking point during months of contentious negotiations, and President Donald Trump indicated the two countries were still working on a broader agreement. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan welcomes US trade pact, but automakers appeal for help

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press