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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020, photo, the Olympics rings are reflected on the window of a hotel restaurant as a server with a mask sets up a table, in the Odaiba section of Tokyo. The vaccine rollout in Japan has been very slow with less than 1% vaccinated. This of course is spilling over to concerns about the postponed Tokyo Olympics that open in just over three months.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Will Japanese Olympians be vaccinated ahead of the public?

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Japanese Vaccine Minister Taro Kono wearing a face mask with Japanese and EU flags on it speaks during an interview in Tokyo, Monday, March 29, 2021. Kono tasked with COVID-19 vaccinations urged the EU to ensure stable shipment of Pfizer vaccines amid distribution uncertainty in a country where the Olympics are coming up in four months. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

AP Interview: Japan urges EU to ensure stable vaccine export

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Japan's Administrative Reform Minister Taro Kono, who is also in charge of COVID-19 vaccines, puts his mask back after a press conference regarding the COVID-19 inoculation Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan’s COVID-19 vaccinations are scheduled to begin Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan minister says supply will determine vaccine progress

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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2020, file photo, Taro Kono, newly appointed minister in charge of Administrative Reform speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence n Tokyo. Kono has said “anything can happen” in regard to the postponed Tokyo Olympics, raising more doubts about the games beginning in just over six months. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan minister says ‘anything can happen’ with Tokyo Games

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono attends a press conference in Tokyo, Thursday, June 25, 2020. Japan's National Security Council has endorsed plans to cancel the deployment of two costly land-based U.S. missile defense systems aimed at bolstering the country’s capability against threats from North Korea, Kono said Thursday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan confirms its scrapping US missile defense system

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

From left, Japan's Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. Japan has approved the removal of South Korea from a &quot;whitelist&quot; of countries with preferential trade status, escalating tensions between the neighbors. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: US says Japan-South Korea committed nuke efforts

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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, eight from left, and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, ninth from right, attend the Japan-China high level economic dialogue at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Sunday, April 14, 2019.(Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP)

China, Japan tout ‘recovered’ ties, aim to ‘take charge of the economic field’

By Yanan Wang - Associated Press

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, left, and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi attend a group photo event before the Japan-China high level economic dialogue at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Sunday, April 14, 2019.(Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP)

China, Japan tout ‘recovered’ ties amid global uncertainty

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono for the talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia tells Japan retaking Pacific islands not on horizon

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Japan raises concerns over Pacific’s debt to China

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, center, gestures talks about Asia's Geopolitcal Outlook in the ongoing World Economic Forum on ASEAN at the National Convention Center Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Listening at left is South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Lynn Kuok, International Institute of Strategic Studies, Singapore. The World Economic Forum has attracted hundreds of participants with the theme: ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Japan’s foreign minister says country to open to foreigners

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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, left, shakes hands with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi before their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)

Japan foreign minister hopes for improved ties with China

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Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (left) Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, and Defense Secretary James Mattis, gather at the start of acommittee meeting, Thursday at the State Department in Washington. (Associated Press)

James Mattis, Rex Tillerson pledge closer military bond with Japan in face of North Korean threat

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times