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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Nancy Pelosi receives the Order of Propitious Clouds with Special Grand Cordon, Taiwan’s highest civilian honor, from President Tsai Ing-wen on August 03, 2022, in Taipei, Taiwan. (Chien Chih-Hung/Office of The President via Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House on September 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Shinzo Abe gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's official residence on April 17, 2020, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota - Pool/Getty Images)
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inspects an honor guard ahead of a Self Defense Forces (SDF) senior officers' meeting at the Ministry of Defense on September 17, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers remarks at the inauguration of Hudson Institute headquarters on March 30, 2016. Also pictured is Distinguished Fellow Ken Weinstein, former president and CEO. (Photo credit: James O'Gara)
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Japan's Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference on May 25, 2020, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon - Pool/Getty Images)
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence on April 1, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
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Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
