U.S. and Japanese flags are displayed near the entrance of the U.S. Navy Aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Thursday, May 16, 2024. USS Ronald Reagan left its Japanese home port on Thursday, wrapping up nearly nine years of deployment in the Indo-Pacific, where it served a key role in the U.S. effort to bolster defense ties with Japan and other partners in the region. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)