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US Steel Corporation workers rally outside the company's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, supporting the takeover by Japan's Nippon Steel, on September 4, 2024. (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)

The newly elected leader and sitting chairperson of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Shigeru Ishiba, speaks at a press conference following his election on September 27, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool/Getty Images)

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US and Japanese flags are seen on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2024. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of States Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, and Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara attend a joint press conference following the US-Japan foreign and defense ministers’ meeting on the sidelines of the Quad meeting at the Iikura Guest House on July 28, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)

Mt. Fuji shows between skyscrapers in Tokyo, Japan, on November 14, 2023. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images)

Ken Weinstein and President Yoon Suk Yeol at the NATO Public Forum on July 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Madeline Yarbrough)

The exterior of the US Steel Tower, headquarters of USX Steel, on March 20, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen via Getty Images)

A billboard promoting contract army service with the slogan reading "Serving Russia is a real job" sits in Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2022. (Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images)

A man stands under Taiwanese flags in Yokohama, Japan, on January 28, 2024. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images)

US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel addresses the media during a press conference on the flight deck of USS Ronald Reagan in Yokosuka, Japan, on May 16, 2024. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Keyly Santizo)