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FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida waits for the start of a budget committee's meeting in Tokyo on March 1, 2024, where two former cabinet ministers belonging to Japan's governing party's key faction behind a major corruption scandal that has rocked the government renewed denial they had any role in running slush funds. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida waits for the start of a budget committee's meeting in Tokyo on March 1, 2024, where two former cabinet ministers belonging to Japan's governing party's key faction behind a major corruption scandal that has rocked the government renewed denial they had any role in running slush funds. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FIEL - U.S. President Joe Biden, center right, and first lady Jill Biden, right, welcome Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center left, and his wife Yuko Kishida for a State Dinner at the White House, on April 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

FIEL - U.S. President Joe Biden, center right, and first lady Jill Biden, right, welcome Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center left, and his wife Yuko Kishida for a State Dinner at the White House, on April 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, walks past the newly elected head of the Liberal Democratic Party Shigeru Ishiba after the party's leadership election at its headquarters in Tokyo. on Sept. 27, 2024. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, walks past the newly elected head of the Liberal Democratic Party Shigeru Ishiba after the party's leadership election at its headquarters in Tokyo. on Sept. 27, 2024. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP)

FILE - Former Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe celebrate after Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga was elected as new head of Japan's ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

FILE - Former Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe celebrate after Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga was elected as new head of Japan's ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

FILE - From left to right, European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for a group photo after laying flower wreaths at the cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims in the Peace Memorial Park as part of the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 19, 2023. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - From left to right, European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for a group photo after laying flower wreaths at the cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims in the Peace Memorial Park as part of the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 19, 2023. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023, shortly after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings TEPCO began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023, shortly after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings TEPCO began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo, on April 30, 2024 as he acknowledged that his governing party's major defeat in the weekend's by-elections was due to a slush fund scandal. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo, on April 30, 2024 as he acknowledged that his governing party's major defeat in the weekend's by-elections was due to a slush fund scandal. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center rear, joins G7 world leaders at a working session on the final day of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 21, 2023. From left to right are: Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Suna, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Zelenskyy, European Council President Charles Michel, Gianluigi Benedetti, Italian ambassador to Japan, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and France's President Emmanuel Macron. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center rear, joins G7 world leaders at a working session on the final day of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 21, 2023. From left to right are: Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Suna, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Zelenskyy, European Council President Charles Michel, Gianluigi Benedetti, Italian ambassador to Japan, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and France's President Emmanuel Macron. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands during a meeting at the Presidential Office in Seoul, on Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool, File)

FILE - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands during a meeting at the Presidential Office in Seoul, on Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool, File)

FILE - Fumio Kishida, center, is applauded after being named as Japan's prime minister at the parliament's lower house in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2021. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - Fumio Kishida, center, is applauded after being named as Japan's prime minister at the parliament's lower house in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2021. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - Protesters tear up a giant Japanese flag with the words "Inhumane, Global Enemy" during a protest against the discharge of treated Fukushima radioactive wastewater, outside the Japan general-consulate in Hong Kong, on Aug. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Ceng, File)

FILE - Protesters tear up a giant Japanese flag with the words "Inhumane, Global Enemy" during a protest against the discharge of treated Fukushima radioactive wastewater, outside the Japan general-consulate in Hong Kong, on Aug. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Ceng, File)