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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift walk together after an AFC Championship NFL football game between the Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens, Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore.. Taylor Swift, who is holding concerts in Japan, will make it in time for the Super Bowl to see her partner and football superstar Travis Kelce play. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Japan wants everyone to know: Taylor Swift will make it in time for the Super Bowl

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

This time exposure photo shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, launching from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Dec. 11, 2022. But later in April 2023, the spacecraft from a Japanese company apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon. Japan now hopes to make the world's first "pinpoint landing" on the moon early Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Japan space agency says its lunar spacecraft is on the moon, but is still ‘checking its status’

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A view of the expanse of trees around Tokyo's Jingu Gaien area that are slated to be cut in order to build three skyscrapers in one of the city's most beloved park areas Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. The controversial plan is facing strong opposition. (AP Photo/Stephen Wade)

Tokyo Governor Koike asked to stop $2.45 billion plan to remake park, famous baseball stadium

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A man walks past a fallen building in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. A powerful earthquake slammed the western coastline of Japan on New Year’s Day. (Kyodo News via AP)

Some schools reopen, garbage collection resumes in Japan’s areas hardest-hit by New Year’s quake

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Police and Firefighters gather around the burn-out Japanese coast guard aircraft at Haneda airport on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. Transport officials and police each began their on site investigation at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Wednesday after a large passenger plane and the Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway and burst into flames, killing several people aboard the coast guard plane. (Kyodo News via AP)

Investigators focus on air traffic communication after a fatal Tokyo runway crash

By Foster Klug and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this image made from video, a Japan Airlines plane is on fire on the runway of Haneda airport on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. (NTV via AP)

Planes collide and catch fire at Japan’s busy Haneda Airport, killing 5. Hundreds evacuated safely

By Foster Klug and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Protesters rally near a gate of Camp Schwab, a U.S. Marine Corps camp, in the Henoko neighborhood of Nago, northeast of Okinawa, Japan, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Signs read, "No new Henoko base." A Japanese court on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023, ordered the governor of Okinawa to approve the central government's modified plan for landfill work at the planned relocation site of a key U.S. military base on the southern island despite persistent opposition and protests by residents. (Kyodo News via AP)

A Japan court orders Okinawa to approve a modified plan to build runways for U.S. Marine Corps

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Haruyuki Takahashi, executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games arrives at Tokyo 2020 Executive Board Meeting in Tokyo on March 30, 2020. Takahashi, a former member of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, appeared in a Tokyo district court for the first time on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, to face charges of taking millions in bribes tied to the Games. He was arrested more than a year ago and its unclear when his trial will end. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, Pool, File)

Ex-Tokyo Olympics official pleads not guilty to taking bribes in exchange for Games contracts

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This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what the country said is the launch of the Malligyong-1, a military spy satellite, into orbit on Nov. 21, 2023. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

U.S., South Korea and Japan urge stronger international push to curb North Korean nuclear program

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what the country said is the launch of the Malligyong-1, a military spy satellite, into orbit on Nov. 21, 2023. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

U.S., South Korean and Japanese national security advisers to meet, discuss North Korean threat

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

The headquarters of Japanese advertising company Dentsu Inc. stands in Tokyo on June 5, 2020. The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics played out Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in a Japanese courtroom — more than two years after the Games closed — with advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies facing criminal charges. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Tokyo Olympics sullied by bid-rigging, bribery trials more than 2 years after the Games closed

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Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, attends a meeting at a hotel in Tokyo, May 2008. Ikeda has died, the Japanese religious organization said Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. He was 95. (Kyodo News via AP)

Daisaku Ikeda, head of global Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai, dies at 95

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second right, takes a seat next to Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, right, and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, second left, as he attends an outreach session during the Group of 7 Foreign Ministers meetings in Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

G7 nations announce a unified stance on Israel-Hamas war after intensive meetings in Tokyo

By Matthew Lee, Foster Klug and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa on his arrival at Iikura guest house, ahead of G7 ministerial meetings, in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken seeks G7 unity on Israel-Hamas war among items on crisis-heavy global agenda

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Lydie Evrard, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Deputy Director General and head of the Department of Nuclear Safety answers a question during a press conference at the Foreign Press Center Japan Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

IAEA officials say Fukushima’s ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater is going well

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Richard Day, 97, right, a British army veteran who survived the Burma Campaign, one of the harshest battles in the World War II, talks to Yukihiro Torikai, left, a Tokai University humanities professor whose late grandfather also fought in the campaign, during a memorial at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. The memorial was attended by military officials from the embassies of several former allied nations, including Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the U.S. at the cemetery for the unknown Japanese who died overseas during the war. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

U.K. veteran who fought against Japan in World War II visits Tokyo’s national cemetery

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting on Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. Xi accused Washington on Monday, March 6, 2023, trying to isolate his country and hold back its development. That reflects the ruling Communist Party's growing frustration that its pursuit of prosperity and global influence is threatened by U.S. restrictions on access to technology, its support for Taiwan and other moves seen by Beijing as hostile. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Global semiconductor market tilts against China as chip wars escalate

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

People form a human chain outside of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, demanding it scrap a controversial redevelopment of Tokyo’s beloved Jingu Gaien park area, part of whose land is owned by an independent sports promotion unit overseen by the ministry, in Tokyo, Japan.(AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Protesters demand that Japan save 1000s of trees by revising a design plan for a popular Tokyo park

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Smoke billows from a Kyoto Animation building in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 18, 2019. A murder trial began Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, for the 2019 deadly arson attack on the Kyoto animation studio which left 36 people dead, and the defendant who needed time to recover from serious burns that nearly killed him pleaded guilty to the deadliest crime in decades, officials and media reports said. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Trial opens in Japan in the 2019 animation studio arson that killed 36 people. Suspect pleads guilty

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats the seafood from Fukushima prefecture at lunch at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (Cabinet Public Affairs Office via AP)

Japan announces emergency relief measures for seafood exporters hit by China’s ban

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press