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Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during the virtual summit of the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the U.S., a group known as “the Quad&quot;, at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, March 12, 2021. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool via AP)

Japanese PM Suga expects to invite Biden to Tokyo Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Yoshihide Suga delivers a speech at the annual party convention in Tokyo Sunday, March 21, 2021. Suga pledged Sunday to do his utmost to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus ahead of the Olympic torch relay and his upcoming visit to Washington. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan PM vows no virus rebound as emergency measures end

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A couple wearing face masks walk on rocks with a backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in Tokyo's Odaiba section Thursday, March 18, 2021. Japan on Thursday will approve ending a monthslong state of emergency in Tokyo set up to curb the spread of the coronavirus, despite concerns of a resurgence ahead of the spring party season and next week's Olympic torch relay. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan to end virus emergency in Tokyo despite rebound fears

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan PM to US in April for 1st in-person summit with Biden

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

People offer a silent prayer for victims of the 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami, on the site of former town office in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, Japan Thursday, March 11, 2021. Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck Japan's northeastern coast. (Koki Sengoku/Kyodo News via AP)

Still recovering, Japan marks 10 years since tsunami hit

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask walks on a street during lunchtime in Tokyo on Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan extends virus emergency for 2 weeks for Tokyo area

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk near a banner of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in Tokyo. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 310 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan weighing extension of coronavirus emergency in Tokyo

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A man wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus rides a scooter along a sidewalk in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan extends emergency amid vaccine, Olympic uncertainty

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

German Klaus Schwab, left, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, WEF, listens Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga displayed in screens during a video conference at the Davos Agenda, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, January 29, 2021. The Davos Agenda, from 25 to 29 January 2021, is a online edition due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak gather global leaders to shape the principles, policies and partnerships needed in this challenging new context. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Japan prime minister says he’s determined to hold Olympics

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus cross an intersection on a street in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan widens virus emergency to 7 more areas as cases surge

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, also the Liberal Democratic Party party leader, poses with the ruling party's senior officials, including Toshihiro Nikai, right, at the party headquarters in Tokyo, on Sept. 15, 2020. Prime Minister Suga came to office on a surge of popularity, pledging to combat the coronavirus and fix the languishing economy. Now his support ratings have plunged amid flaring virus outbreaks and scandals within the ruling party, even as the economy appears to be recovering. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan virus outbreaks, scandals sap public support for Suga

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Suga announced a 2 trillion green fund to promote innovation and technology to achieve his pledge to achieve a carbon free society by 2050.(AP Photo/Hiro Komae, Pool)

Japan PM pledges $19B to promote ecological businesses

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A health worker takes a swab sample to test for COVID-19 inside a garment market in Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. India’s total number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began crossed 9 million on Friday. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

The Latest: Japan’s virus cases hit record for fourth day

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, right, greets International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach during their meeting in Tokyo Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

Bach: Tokyo Olympic ‘participants’ encouraged to get vaccine

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

South Korea's National Intelligence Service Director Park Jie-won is surrounded by journalists after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. Suga, in a sign of thaw of his country's troubled relations with Seoul, met with the South Korean top intelligence official Tuesday and stressed the importance of their bilateral relationship as well as a three-way cooperation with the United States in tackling North Korea and other regional concerns. (Jun Hirata/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan PM meets top SKorea official, urges Seoul to solve row

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese lawmakers wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus attend an extraordinary Diet session at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Post-Abe agenda: Suga says Japan to go carbon-free by 2050

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Scholars decry Japan PM’s academic panel rejections

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, sits during a meeting with Vietnam's National Assembly's Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monhday, Oct. 19, 2020. Suga is on an official visit to Vietnam. (Kham/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan’s PM, in Indonesia, says SE Asia key for his nation

By NINIEK KARMINI and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, center right, and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc, center left, attend a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. (Kham/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan, Vietnam agree to boost defense ties, resume flights

By HAU DINH and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2020, file photo, Yoshihide Suga is applauded after being elected as Japan's new prime minister at parliament's lower house in Tokyo. Japan's new Prime Minister Suga heads to Vietnam and Indonesia on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020, on his first overseas foray since taking over from his former boss Shinzo Abe last month. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan’s populist, pragmatic new PM Suga pushes Abe’s vision

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press