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Then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on August 28, 2020. (Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks during the daily White House briefing November 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the Biden administration's Indo-Pacific strategy at the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia on December 14, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida makes a national statement during day three of COP26 at SECC on November 2, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Hannah McKay - Pool/Getty Images)

Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean arrives in Devonport on April 22, 2021 in Tasmania, Australia. (Photo by POIS Andrew Dakin/Australian Defence Force via Getty Images)

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) soldiers during a live fire exercise at JGSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area on May 22, 2021 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan. (Photo by Akio Kon - Pool/Getty Images)

Fumio Kishida poses for a photograph following a press conference after winning the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on September 29, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan (Photo by Du Xiaoyi - Pool/Getty Images)

A F-35B executes a short takeoff from the USS America during allied exercises between the Royal Navy and US Marines in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 20, 2021. (US Marine Corps/John Tetrault)

An extra edition of a daily newspaper reporting on Japans Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga deciding not to run for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election is distributed in Tokyo's Ginza district on September 3, 2021 (Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS

Nobuo Kishi, Japan's defense minister, attends Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) live fire exercise at JGSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area on May 22, 2021 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan (Photo by Akio Kon - Pool/Getty Images)