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U.S. F-22 stealth fighter at Japan base

A U.S. F-22 stealth fighter is pictured at Nyutabaru Air Base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force in Shintomi, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 23, 2024.

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U.S. F-22 stealth fighter at Japan base

A U.S. F-22 stealth fighter is pictured at Nyutabaru Air Base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force in Shintomi, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 23, 2024.

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U.S. F-22 stealth fighter at Japan base

A U.S. F-22 stealth fighter is pictured at Nyutabaru Air Base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force in Shintomi, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Japanese SDF equipment

File photo taken Oct. 23, 2024, shows a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Type 16 mobile combat vehicle, during a Japan-U.S. joint drill on Tokunoshima Island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima.

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Japanese SDF equipment

File photo taken Oct. 23, 2024, shows a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Type 16 maneuver combat vehicle driving through a residential area during a Japan-U.S. joint drill on Tokunoshima Island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima.

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Japan-China meeting on maritime issues

Senior officials from the Japanese and Chinese governments hold a working-level meeting on maritime issues in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Football: Champions League

Reo Hatate (R) of Celtic plays in a Champions League football match against Atalanta on Oct. 23, 2024, in Bergamo, Italy.

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Football: Champions League

Ayase Ueda (L) of Feyenoord vies for the ball with Tomas Araujo of Benfica in a Champions League football match on Oct. 23, 2024, in Lisbon.

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Football: Champions League

Ayase Ueda (L) of Feyenoord celebrates with a teammate after opening the scoring in the first half of a Champions League football match against Benfica on Oct. 23, 2024, in Lisbon.

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Japan Crown Prince at Blue Planet Prize ceremony

Japan's Crown Prince Fumihito (2nd from L) and Crown Princess Kiko (3rd from L) attend an award ceremony for the Blue Planet Prize, an international environmental award, in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Southwestern Japan students attend papal audience

Junior high school students from Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, pose for a photo after attending a general audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 23, 2024, clad in costumes simulating four Japanese teenagers sent to Rome as emissaries of a Catholic landlord in the 1580s. The southwestern Japan city, where the 16th-century emissaries studied at a Jesuit school, has sent delegations of local students since 2012, with the 2024 cohort being the first after the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan Crown Prince at Blue Planet Prize ceremony

Japan's Crown Prince Fumihito speaks at an award ceremony for the Blue Planet Prize, an international environmental award, in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Football: Champions League

Ayase Ueda (R) of Feyenoord attempts a shot on goal in a Champions League football match against Benfica on Oct. 23, 2024, in Lisbon.

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Japan-China meeting on maritime issues

Hiroyuki Namazu (L), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry, and his counterpart Hong Liang of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs at China's Foreign Ministry, shake hands as they hold a working-level meeting on maritime issues in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Baseball: Yomiuri Giant Kajitani retires

Yomiuri Giants outfielder Takayuki Kajitani (R) receives flowers from teammate Hayato Sakamoto at the end of a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024, on his retirement from professional baseball.

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Baseball: Yomiuri Giant Kajitani retires

Yomiuri Giants outfielder Takayuki Kajitani speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024, on his retirement from professional baseball.

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Baseball: Yomiuri Giant Kajitani retires

Yomiuri Giants outfielder Takayuki Kajitani speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024, on his retirement from professional baseball.

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Football: Champions League

Ayase Ueda (R) of Feyenoord plays in a Champions League football match against Benfica on Oct. 23, 2024, in Lisbon.

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Football: Champions League

Daizen Maeda of Celtic plays in a Champions League football match against Atalanta on Oct. 23, 2024, in Bergamo, Italy.

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Football: Champions League

Reo Hatate (R) of Celtic plays in a Champions League football match against Atalanta on Oct. 23, 2024, in Bergamo, Italy.

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Football: Champions League

Kyogo Furuhashi of Celtic heads the ball in the second half of a Champions League football match against Atalanta on Oct. 23, 2024, in Bergamo, Italy.

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Football: Champions League

Takuya Ogiwara (R) of Dinamo Zagreb plays in a Champions League football match against Red Bull Salzburg on Oct. 23, 2024, in Salzburg, Austria.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

The Kansai Pavilion, a showcase by nine prefectures from the Kansai region in western Japan for the 2025 World Exposition, is lit up during a press preview on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025, on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

The Osaka Healthcare Pavilion for the 2025 World Exposition is unveiled to the media on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

Photo shows the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion for the 2025 World Exposition on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan, unveiled to the media on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

Shiga Gov. Taizo Mikazuki (C) speaks to reporters during a press preview of the Kansai Pavilion, a showcase by nine prefectures, including Shiga Prefecture, from the Kansai region in western Japan for the 2025 World Exposition, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025, on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

The Osaka Healthcare Pavilion for the 2025 World Exposition is unveiled to the media on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

The Kansai Pavilion, a showcase by nine prefectures from the Kansai region in western Japan for the 2025 World Exposition, is lit up during a press preview on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025, on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

Photo shows the Kansai Pavilion, a showcase by nine prefectures from the Kansai region in western Japan for the 2025 World Exposition, on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan, unveiled to the media on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

Photo shows the interior of the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion for the 2025 World Exposition on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan, unveiled to the media on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

Photo shows the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion for the 2025 World Exposition on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan, unveiled to the media on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025.

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New JAXA astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (L) and Makoto Suwa, newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, pose for a photo at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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New JAXA astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (L) and Makoto Suwa, newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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New JAXA astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (L) and Makoto Suwa, newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, pose for a photo at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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New JAXA astronauts

Ayu Yoneda, one of the two newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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New JAXA astronauts

Makoto Suwa, one of the two newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Campaigning for Japan general election

Japanese Communist Party Chair Tomoko Tamura makes a stump speech in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general election.

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Campaigning for Japan general election

Japan Innovation Party head Nobuyuki Baba makes a stump speech in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general election.

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Campaigning for Japan general election

Keiichi Ishii, leader of the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, makes a stump speech in Kashiwa in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general election.

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Campaigning for Japan general election

Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, makes a stump speech in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general election.

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Campaigning for Japan general election

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba makes a stump speech in Kashiwa in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general election.

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BOJ chief Ueda at IMF event

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks at an event hosted by the International Monetary Fund in Washington on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Japan court orders retrial of man over 1986 schoolgirl murder

Shoshi Maekawa (front), who served a seven-year prison sentence over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in Fukui Prefecture, reacts in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Oct. 23, 2024, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court ordered a retrial.

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Japan court orders retrial of man over 1986 schoolgirl murder

Shoshi Maekawa, who served a seven-year prison sentence over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in Fukui Prefecture, speaks during a press conference in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Oct. 23, 2024, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court ordered a retrial.

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Japan court orders retrial of man over 1986 schoolgirl murder

Shoshi Maekawa (C), who served a seven-year prison sentence over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in Fukui Prefecture, speaks to reporters in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Oct. 23, 2024, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court ordered a retrial.

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20th anniversary of Chuetsu Earthquake

People lay flowers and offer prayers during a memorial ceremony held in Ojiya, Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, for the 68 victims of the massive earthquake that struck the prefecture 20 years ago.

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20th anniversary of Chuetsu Earthquake

A memorial service is held in Ojiya, Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, for the 68 victims of a powerful earthquake that hit the prefecture 20 years ago.

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20th anniversary of Chuetsu Earthquake

About 2,200 lights are lit in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massive earthquake that killed 68 people.

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20th anniversary of Chuetsu Earthquake

People offer silent prayers in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, the 20th anniversary of the massive earthquake that killed 68 people.

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20th anniversary of Chuetsu Earthquake

About 2,200 lights are lit in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massive earthquake that killed 68 people.