Biden completes seven-day Asia trip - USA Today

Vice President Biden is Hawaii-bound after a seven-day adventure that took him to China, Mongolia and Japan.

Biden left Tokyo Wednesday after addressing U.S. troops who had played a major role in helping Japan recover from a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March. Biden shook hands and posed for pictures with the troops for about an hour.

It was an exhaustive, if not exhausting, bit of dipl0macy for the 67-year-old vice president, conducted mostly while his boss was chilling on Martha's Vineyard.

Some highlights from the trip:

In China, Biden visited he Sichuan Province city of Chengdu, and from there traveled to Dujiangyan, where he met with survivors of the 2008 earthquake.In Mongolia, he was treated to a vast cultural demonstration that included male wrestlers, a female contortionist and a gift of a horse, which he named Celtic.In Japan, the vice president traveled to Sendai and areas near there, meeting in several locations with survivors of the spring earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

As he left Sendai Tuesday, Biden offered two expressions from his mother: "God love you all," and "Joey, you're staying too long."

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