By YOSHITAKA ITO/ Staff Writer
October 5, 2020 at 17:00 JST
Itsunori Onodera, the then defense minister, tours an Aegis Ashore defense system in Kauai, Hawaii, in January 2018. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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