Japan is the last stop on President Obama's ten-day trip to Asia. In India, he became the first American president to openly support a permanent seat for that country on the United Nations Security Council.

He also visited Indonesia, where he spent four years as a boy.

And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.

Contributing: Heda Bayron, Akiko Fujita, Steve Herman, Ravi Khanna, Brian Padden, Robert Raffaele and Dan Robinson