Yoshihide Suga

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks answers a question during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, July 4, 2014. Japan took a tentative step toward improved relations with North Korea on Friday by agreeing to lift some of its sanctions in response to the North’s decision to re-open a probe into the fate of at least a dozen Japanese believed to have been abducted by North Korean agents decades ago.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)