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Shota Imanaga, a Japanese pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, left, and Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, shake hands during a news conference at the U.S. Embassy Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, in Tokyo, as he was invited to the event dubbed the U.S. Global Entry to promote a way for travelers to get quicker clearance on arrival. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Should Sasaki join Cubs? Emanuel, a fan of the team and ambassador to Japan, is being diplomatic

During a news conference at the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Chicago Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga was asked what he’d say to countryman Roki Sasaki to convince him to join his team.
 
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, right, and Japanese lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi, left, take part in a surfing event in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, on Japan's northeast coast Saturday, July 6, 2024. Earlier Saturday, the ambassador visited the nearby town of Minamisoma to join junior surfers and sample locally-caught flounder for lunch, aiming to highlight the safety of the area's seawater and seafood amid ongoing discharges of treated and diluted radioactive water from the tsuamni-ruined Fukusima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo News via AP)

US envoy to Japan expresses regret over alleged sex crimes by military personnel in Okinawa

 
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, left, and Yonaguni Mayor Kenichi Itokazu talk in front of a monument indicating Japan's westernmost point on Yonaguni Island in Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan Friday, May 17, 2024. Emanuel visited two southwestern Japanese islands at the forefront of tension with China's increasingly assertive actions in the regional waters. (Kyodo News via AP)

US ambassador to Japan visits southern islands at the forefront of China tension

 
In this photo provided by U.S. Embassy in Japan, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, speaks during his visit to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ F-35 fighter jet final assembly and inspection plant in Toyoyama, Aichi prefecture, western Japan, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (U.S. Embassy via AP)

The US ambassador to Japan says boosting arms industry ties is key to a stronger security alliance

 
Japanese and U.S. military officials and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, fourth left, and Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara, third right, stand behind a defense equipment procurement official as he signs a document for the Tomahawk purchase deal at the Japanese Defense Ministry, in Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2023. Japan has signed a deal with the United States to purchase up to 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of its ongoing military buildup in response to increased regional threats. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel attended a signing event at Japan's Defense Ministry on Thursday. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Japan signs agreement to purchase 400 Tomahawk missiles as US envoy lauds its defense buildup

 

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FILE - A member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force stands guard next to a surface-to-air Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile interceptor launcher vehicle in Funabashi, east of Tokyo, on Jan. 18, 2018. Japan’s defense spending will increase more than 16% next year under a record military budget approved Friday, Dec. 22, 2023, that is intended to accelerate the deployment of long-range cruise missiles that can hit targets in China or North Korea. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan Cabinet OKs record military budget to speed up strike capability, eases lethal arms export ban

 
FILE - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel speaks at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Emanuel says the U.S. is welcomed in the Indo-Pacific and should do more to counter China's influence there. Speaking at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York on Friday, Oct. 20, Emanuel described Japan as an essential player in U.S.-led alliances and an influential power that works with the U.S. in the region. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

The US is welcomed in the Indo-Pacific region and should do more, ambassador to Japan says

 
FILE - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel speaks during an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, at the ambassador's residence in Tokyo. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Emanuel accused China on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, of using “economic coercion” against Japan by banning imports of Japanese seafood over the release of treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, while Chinese boats continue to fish off of Japan's coasts.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

US ambassador to Japan calls Chinese ban on Japanese seafood ‘economic coercion’

 

Indiana Gov. Holcomb leading weeklong foreign trade mission to Japan beginning Thursday

 
In this photo provided by U.S. Embassy, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, left, eats a local fig at JA farmer’s market in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. U.S. Ambassador Emanuel visited a northern Fukushima city Thursday and had seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce at a grocery store to show they're all safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi plant to the sea, backing Japan effort while criticizing China's ban on Japanese seafood as political.(U.S. Embassy via AP)

U.S. envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China’s seafood ban over wastewater release

 
FILE - USS Arizona Memorial, part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, is seen at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Dec. 27, 2016. Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor, two symbols of World War II animosity between Japan and the United States, are now promoting peace and friendship through a sister park arrangement. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui signed a sister park agreement on Thursday, June 29, 2023, for Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park and the Pearl Harbor National Memorial of Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Hiroshima peace park and Pearl Harbor memorial will work together to promote peace