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Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles and Japan’s Defence Minister General Nakatani hold a joint press announcement aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mogami-class stealth frigate JS Mikuma at the JMSDF naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, on September 5, 2025. (Getty Images)

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US Commerce Secretary Howard William Lutnick and Japanese Minister for Economic Revitalization Ryosei Akazawa shake hands on on September 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a budget committee meeting during an extraordinary session at the Lower House of the Diet on August 4, 2025, in Tokyo. (Tomohiro Ohsumi via Getty Images)

Workers arrange national flags of Japan and India ahead of a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Hyderabad House on March 19, 2022, in New Delhi, India. (Sonu Mehta via Getty Images)

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a budget committee session on the US tariff issue in the House of Representatives at the Parliament in Tokyo on August 4, 2025. (Kazuhiro Nogi via Getty Images)

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on July 1, 2025. (Allison Robbert via Getty Images)

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