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Cherry blossom flowers are reflected on a pond at Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo, Monday, March 26, 2018. Cherry blossom flowers are at full bloom in Tokyo, Japan as it warms up for the spring season.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

AP PHOTOS: Cherry blossoms reach full bloom in Tokyo

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Rescuers walk near the site where holiday hikers were found in Hinohara village, Tokyo's Okutama region, Thursday, March 22, 2018. Thirteen hikers, reportedly including Chinese citizens, were rescued after getting trapped overnight on a snowy Tokyo mountain trail. They spent the night on one of the mountains in Tokyo's popular hiking area. Tokyo police and disaster officials said Thursday that seven of them who couldn't walk were airlifted. Six others hiked down escorted by rescue workers. (Yohei Fukai/Kyodo News via AP)

13 holiday hikers rescued from snowy Tokyo mountain

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Review: A young man’s infatuation with Tokyo in the 1970s

By ANN LEVIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 28, 2017, file photo, a woman looks at the construction site of the new National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo. Tokyo used its famous 1964 Olympics to show off a miraculous recovery from defeat in World War II. This time the Japanese capital will use the games to showcase a clean, safe, and innovative city with great shopping and nightlife. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Tokyo returns with Summer Games with something new to prove

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Column: Another Olympic city faces a financial calamity

By PAUL NEWBERRY - Associated Press

In this Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike holds a brochures of a 2018 draft budget while speaking during a press conference in Tokyo. Koike explained the city will more than double the billions it is already budgeting to stage the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. However, the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers say the city’s added costs are for many projects that would have been done - with our without the Olympics. (Noriko Kawamura/Kyodo News via AP)

2020 Tokyo Olympic costs keep rising despite efforts to cut

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Workers of wholesaler Yamayuki cut the 405 kilogram (892-pound) bluefin tuna that they bought at the first auction of the year, near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. The huge bluefin tuna has sold for 36.5 million yen ($320,000) in what may really be Tsukiji market's last auction at its current site in downtown Tokyo, local media reports said Friday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Bluefin tuna sold for $320,000 in Tsukiji’s last new year

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Japan's Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers from the bullet-proofed balcony during New Year's public appearance with his family members at Imperial Palace in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. Akihito, who is handing the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son next year, is being showered with cheers from tens of thousands of New Year's well-wishers at the palace. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Akihito, Japan’s emperor, greets cheering crowd at palace for new year

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

Officials from the Tokyo 2020 Games and Tokyo Municipal government attend a press conference on the updated version of the Games budget in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. The latest price tag for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been trimmed slightly, but is still nearly twice the initial estimate even after a major cost-cutting effort. The organizers said Friday that the event will cost a total 1.35 trillion yen ($11.9 billion). (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo cuts estimated tab for 2020 Olympics to $12 billion

Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, left, chats with Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori during a joint press conference in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

IOC confident 2020 Tokyo Games will not be tainted by doping

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Police officers walk near the scene of a stabbing incident at Tomioka Hachimangu shrine in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. Police say three people have died in the stabbing attack on Thursday night at the prominent shrine, including the head priest and the attacker, who apparently took his own life. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Chief priest, 2 others dead in Tokyo shrine stabbings

By Kaori Hitomi - Associated Press

In this Dec. 4, 2017 image from an Associated Press Television video, the post-World War II memoirs composed by Japanese Emperor Hirohito are displayed at Bonham's suction house in New York. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, the two-volume, 173 page document, that offers the emperor's recollections of World War II has fetched $275,000 at an auction in New York. (AP Photo/Joseph B. Frederick, File)

Emperor Hirohito memoir bought by Japanese doctor

By TOM McELROY - Associated Press

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during a Tokyo 2020 Paralympics countdown event in Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Tokyo marks 1,000 days to go until 2020 Paralympics

Associated Press

With an appeal of "never again," Japanese visited Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima this year to mark the 72nd anniversary of the 1945 attack that killed 140,000 people. (Associated Press/File)

Japan debates constitution’s military passivism

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 9, 2017, photo, Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, speaks during an event in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm) ** FILE **

Steve Bannon in Japan, rails against China’s ‘hegemonic’ ambitions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

From left: Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, U.S. President Donald Trump, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong pose for a family photo during the ASEAN-US 40th Anniversary commemorative Summit in Manila, Philippines on Monday, November 13, 2017. (Manan Vatsyayana/Pool photo via AP) **FILE**

Donald Trump calls Asia trip ‘fruitful’ with trade progress, nuclear reassurance

By Guy Taylor and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. President Donald Trump hugs Vietnam veteran Max Morgan of Santa Clarita, Calif., as he becomes emotional while speaking at a veterans event at the Grand Hyatt, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017, in Danang, Vietnam. Trump is on a five-country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump on veterans’ health care, economy

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump salutes during a welcome ceremony at U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Aiea, Hawaii. Trump begins a 5 country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippians. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump calls Japan ‘crucial ally’ as he kicks off Asia trip

By Jonathan Lemire - Associated Press

This aerial photo shows the apartment, center, where police found dismembered bodies in coolers in Zama city, southwest of Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017. A police spokesman said Tuesday the 27-year-old suspect confessed to cutting up the bodies and hiding them in cold-storage cases, covered with cat litter. (Kyodo News via AP)

Takahiro Shiraishi, Tokyo-area man, arrested after dismembered bodies found in home: Report

By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, walks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as they review a guard of honor at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. Duterte is on a two-day visit to Japan. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan offers Duterte aid for rebuilding, fighting terrorism

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press