Schwarzenegger Promotes California During Visit to Japan

By Steve Herman, Tokyo

Although they have difficulty pronouncing his family name, nearly everyone in Japan knows his face. Arnold Schwarzenegger's action movies and television commercials for noodles and beer have made him a celebrity here for years.

Now he is a hawking a new product - the state of California.

Mr. Schwarzenegger is leading a four-day, 57-member trade delegation to Japan, which kicked off with a buffet of California food and wine.

"Come to California. I invite all of you to California and I can guarantee you that you will fall in love with our great state," he said. " And before you go back home you will be saying 'I'll be back.'"