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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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Guests hold Japanese and American flags as they wait for the arrival ceremony for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Mrs. Yuko Kishida of Japan at White House on April 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends a press conference on January 4, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by the Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Inazuma in the Philippine Sea on February 16, 2022. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Alonzo Martin-Frazier)
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A worker leaves US Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Works, March 10, 2018, in Braddock, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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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)
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Supporters of Lai Ching-te, presidential candidate of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), cheer during an election campaign rally in Keelung, Taiwan, on January 8, 2024. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida delivers his policy speech during a plenary session of the House of Representatives at the Diet in Tokyo on January 22, 2016. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
