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The portrait of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seen on the altar during his state funeral at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2022. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

Prime Minister Abe’s assassination and the Japanese communist attack on freedom

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a speech on the Maritime Self Defense Force's helicopter carrier JS Izumo during an international fleet review in Sagami Bay, southwest of Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2022. Japan and the United States began a major joint military exercise Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 in southern Japan as the allies aim to step up readiness in the face of China’s increasing assertiveness and North Korea’s intensifying missile launches. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan, U.S. hold joint arms drills amid China, North Korea worry

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Illustration on the U.S. defense of Taiwan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Will Biden defend Taiwan?

By Jed Babbin

In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, F-35B stealth fighter jets and South Korean F-15K fighter jets fly over the Korean Peninsula during joint drills on Sept. 18, 2017. The United States will fly a supersonic bomber over ally South Korea as part of a massive combined aerial exercise involving hundreds of warplanes, in a show of force meant to intimidate North Korea over its barrage of ballistic missile tests this week that has escalated tensions in the region. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File)

North Korea fires more missiles as U.S. flies bombers over South

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, South Korean Air Force's F15K fighter jets and U.S. Air Force's F-16 fighter jets, fly in formation during a joint drill in an undisclosed location in South Korea, Oct. 4, 2022. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File)

Rival Koreas scramble warplanes in extension of tensions

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

A TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage is seen at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. North Korea continued its barrage of weapons tests on Thursday, firing at least three missiles including a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and temporarily halt trains. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea keeps up its missile barrage with launch of ICBM

By Kim Tong-hyung and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Same-sex couples speak to media at Tokyo metropolitan government as the Japanese capital starts acknowledging same-sex partnerships, Tuesday Nov. 1, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Tuesday began issuing certificates recognizing same-sex couples in the Japanese capital, a small improvement toward greater awareness of sexual diversity in a country where same-sex marriage is not allowed. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Japan’s capital begins same-sex partnership recognition

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a plenary session in Tokyo Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. Kishida’s government was to approve on Friday a hefty economic package that will include government funding of about 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) to soften the burden of costs from rising utility rates and food prices. (Sadayuki Goto/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan Cabinet OKs $200B spending plan to counter inflation

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman speaks during a talk with her counterpart, South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyundong, at the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

US vows full military defense of allies against North Korea

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 30, 2021 file photo, people wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus take photos of cherry blossoms in Tokyo. Across the world, authorities are seeking to stave off a new surge of COVID-19 infections to contain a death toll which already exceeds 3 million. Crowds are anathema to health. Yet at the same time, the soothing glories of nature are said to be an ideal balm against the psychological burdens of loneliness, disorientation and fear that the pandemic has wrought. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

U.S. and Japan must stand as one against the threats from China, North Korea

By Todd Tiahrt

Visitors walk along a shopping street at the Asakusa district on June 10, 2022, in Tokyo. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan eager to welcome tourists from abroad amid cheap yen

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

The U.S. carrier USS Ronald Reagan is escorted as it arrives in Busan, South Korea on Sept. 23, 2022. North Korea warned Saturday, Oct. 8, the U.S. redeployment of an aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula is causing a “considerably huge negative splash” in regional security, as it defended its recent missile tests as a “righteous reaction” to intimidating military drills between its rivals. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) ** FILE **

U.S. aircraft carrier concludes drills with Japan, South Korea as North Korea fires another missile

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, South Korean Air Force's F15K fighter jet fires 2 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition ) bombs into an island target in South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. The South Korean and U.S. militaries responded to a North Korea morning missile launch by launching fighter jets which fired weapons at a target off South Korea's west coast in a show of strength against North Korea. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)

U.S., allies stage new drills after North Korean missile soars over Japan

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This undated photo distributed on Sept. 16, 2017, by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of an intermediate range Hwasong-12 in North Korea. North Korea on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years. Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said one launched Tuesday could be the same as the Hwasong-12 missile that North has fired four times in the past. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

White House condemns North Korea’s missile launch over Japan

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden, center, meets with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, during the NATO summit in Madrid, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Seated behind Biden is, from left, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S., East Asian allies must boost cooperation as North Korean threat grows, ex-U.S. commander says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times