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The scientific ice-going Kronprins Haakon sails through the sea ice in eastern Spitzbergen in the Svalbard archipelago on April 10, 2025. (Olivier Morin via Getty Images)

US President Donald Trump waves as he greets Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba upon arrival outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. (Mandel Ngan via Getty Images)

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japan’s Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy Ryosei Akazawa shake hands during a photo session as they arrive at the USA Pavilion on US National Day at the World Expo 2025 on July 19, 2025, in Osaka, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi via Getty Images)

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People pay tribute to the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on February 16, 2025. (Kim Won Jin via Getty Images)

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President Donald J Trump speaks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House on February 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford via Getty Images)

Voters take part in upper house elections at a polling station in Tokyo on July 20, 2025. (Richard A. Brooks via Getty Images)

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Exporting cars line up at Toyota Pier of Nagoya Port circa December 1976, in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects troops during a parade commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing on September 3, 2015. (Huang Xiaobang via Getty Images)