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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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President Donald J Trump speaks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House on February 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford via Getty Images)
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Voters take part in upper house elections at a polling station in Tokyo on July 20, 2025. (Richard A. Brooks via Getty Images)
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Exporting cars line up at Toyota Pier of Nagoya Port circa December 1976, in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects troops during a parade commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing on September 3, 2015. (Huang Xiaobang via Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during an ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 11, 2025. (Mandel Ngan via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump looks on as Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. (Jim Watson via Getty Images)
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The Japan Air Self-Defense Force held an F-35 aircraft delivery ceremony at Komatsu Air Base in Japan on April 26, 2025. (F-35 Joint Program Office via JASDF and DVIDS)
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Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba addresses a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on June 23, 2025. (Kiyoshi Ota via Getty Images)
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A cargo ship arrives at the international cargo terminal at the port of Tokyo on July 8, 2025. (Kazuhiro Nogi via Getty Images)
Experts
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
