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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

Portable shrines with numbers on top depicting &quot;1,000&quot; are carried by local people during a Tokyo 2020 Olympics countdown event in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Tokyo marked 1,000 days to go Saturday before the start of the 2020 Olympics with a ceremony that included a demonstration of new sports that will debut at the Summer Games. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo marks 1,000 days to go before start of 2020 Olympics

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Tokyo Organizing Committee CEO of the 2020 Olympics Toshiro Muto speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The top Tokyo Olympic organizer has pledged to keep water clean and safe at marathon swimming and triathlon venue where E. coli bacterial contamination has been detected during the summer, saying they are implementing measures that are showing improvement. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

AP Interview: Tokyo vows clean water for Olympic triathlon

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - IN this Sept. 18, 2015, file photo, Fred Armisen is shown during the filming of the television show &quot;Portlandia&quot; in Portland, Ore. During a recent appearance on the PBS ancestry series “Finding Your Roots,&quot; Armisen learned that his grandfather was a legendary dancer from Japan who, while living in Germany in the 1930s and 40s, allegedly volunteered in propaganda work for the Third Reich and moonlighted as a spy for the emperor in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Armisen startled after discovering he’s ‘quarter Korean’

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Sept. 1, 2017, photo, Lee Hee-beom, center, president of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and attendance are silhouetted as they participate in a launching ceremony of the commemorative coins and bank notes for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. The Winter Olympics coming to South Korea in February offer an example of the Olympian efforts often required to meet corporate sponsorship goals. Tokyo tells a different story: The coffers are already overflowing for the 2020 Summer Games. It’s a tale of two cities and two Olympics - winter and summer. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Tale of 2 cities: Olympics sponsors in Pyeongchang and Tokyo

By YOUKYUNG LEE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Official: Tokyo stadium worker was overworked before suicide

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

IOC, Tokyo organizers aim to cut costs for the 2020 Olympics

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, cheers with the lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at the launch of the party's election headquarters in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept 28, 2017. A surge of popularity for a freshly minted opposition party in Japan is making Prime Minister Abe’s decision to call a snap election look riskier than initially thought. Abe dissolved the lower house of parliament Thursday, setting the stage for an Oct. 22 vote. (Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News via AP)

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, faces new challenge as he calls snap election

By Mari Yamaguch and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Visitors try out a game with a virtual reality headset device at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, near Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. The Japanese video game industry is finding its way out of the doldrums, by adapting new technology for decades-old titles. And that energy was evident at the annual game show. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japanese video gaming adapting new tech for familiar titles

By SHERRY ZHENG and YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, second from right, arrives for the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Trump’s North Korea threats leave Asia struggling to explain

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

TV monitors show the J-Alert (warning siren) at an office of Kyodo News in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. South Korea's military said North Korea fired an unidentified missile Friday from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. (Toshiyuki Kuwana/Kyodo News via AP)

North Korea fires missile over Japan in longest-ever flight

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press