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Mount Fuji is silhouetted during sunset behind the high-rise buildings of the Shinjuku area in downtown Tokyo on November 20, 2023. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images)

Former National Security Advisor of the United States H.R. McMaster looks on before being sworn in to testify during the first hearing on national security and Chinese threats to America held by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2023. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter carries a Taiwan flag during National Day celebrations in Taipei on October 10, 2021. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)

A view of United States Steel's Great Lakes Steel Plant on September 12, 2023, in River Rouge, Michigan. (Aaron J. Thornton via Getty Images)

An Israel Defense Forces artillery unit fires towards Gaza near the border on December 11, 2023, in Southern Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)

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An aerial view of the complex housing the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City on October 18, 2023, in the aftermath of an overnight blast. (Shadi Al-Tabatibi/AFP via Getty Images)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Fishery workers unload seafood caught in offshore trawl fishing at Matsukawaura port in Soma City in Fukushima on September 1, 2023. (JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)

US President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol greet each other ahead of a trilateral meeting during the G7 leaders' summit in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. (Brendan Smiakiwski/AFP via Getty Images)