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Osprey deployment in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Shu Watanabe (2nd from front) meets with U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at the ministry in Tokyo on July 20, 2012. The two discussed a U.S. military plan to deploy MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft to bases in Japan, with the first 12 aircraft set to arrive at a base in Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 23.

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Osprey deployment in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter meets with Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Shu Watanabe at the ministry in Tokyo on July 20, 2012. The two discussed a U.S. military plan to deploy MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft to bases in Japan, with the first 12 aircraft set to arrive at a base in Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 23.

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Osprey deployment in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Shu Watanabe (L) shakes hands with U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at the ministry in Tokyo on July 20, 2012. The two discussed a U.S. military plan to deploy MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft to bases in Japan, with the first 12 aircraft set to arrive at a base in Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 23.

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Asian security forum

SINGAPORE, Singapore - (From L) Japanese Senior Vice Defense Minister Shu Watanabe, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan Jin attend the Asian security forum in Singapore on June 2, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Top N. Korean defector willing to testify in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Hwang Jang Yop (L), a top-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, poses for a photo in Seoul on June 14 with Japanese opposition lawmaker Shu Watanabe. Watanabe told Kyodo News on June 21 that Hwang, former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea, had expressed willingness to testify in Japan about the situation in the reclusive communist state.

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Top N. Korean defector willing to testify in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Hwang Jang Yop (L), a top-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, poses for a photo in Seoul on June 14 with Japanese opposition lawmaker Shu Watanabe. Watanabe told Kyodo News on June 21 that Hwang, former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea, had expressed willingness to testify in Japan about the situation in the reclusive communist state. (Kyodo)