Images of Japan: Thirsty?![]() We found vending machines on virtually every corner – stocked with everything from soda, to tea to coffee. Images of Japan: Chinatown![]() Yokohama has the largest Chinatown outside of China. It's home to over 200 restaurants teaming with tasty treats! Lothianisms: Press corps sleepwalking through Asia![]() YOKOHAMA, Japan (CNN) –Traveling with the president is always a plum assignment that becomes even sweeter during long trips to wonderful cities around the world. Images of Japan: Obama ice cream![]() CNN Tokyo Correspondent Kyung Lah found this ice cream for sale in Kamakura, Japan. It's the super sought-after, green tea flavor – called "Obamatcha". Final briefing on President's trip to Asia![]() Delivered by National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes at the Yokohama Bay Sheraton Press Filing Center in Yokohama, Japan MR. RHODES: Thanks, Mike. Thanks, everybody. We had a good morning this morning with bilateral meetings with Japan and Australia. The President has gone into APEC leaders meetings, and the rest of today he'll have APEC leaders meeting this afternoon; then there’s a cultural program tonight, followed by a dinner that the President will attend. Obama's iPad: iReggieWashington (CNN) - Apparently President Obama doesn't need an iPad; he's got an aide for that: iReggie. At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' retreat in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday, a print pool reporter was within earshot of a brief exchange between the president and an iPad owner, Thai Prime Minister "So you like your iPad?" Obama asked. The Thai leader nodded and asked Obama if he had one. "These days mostly I have someone carrying my books. So that's my iPad," Obama said, referring to personal aide Reggie Love. |
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