U.S. Vice President Biden arrives in Tokyo, to meet Kan on Tues.+

TOKYO, Aug. 22 Kyodo -
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Tokyo on Monday night and is scheduled to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday morning with the two expected to discuss matters related to further deepening the Japan-U.S. alliance.
Biden is also expected to discuss his China visit from last Wednesday to Monday, during which he talked with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping who is tipped to become China's supreme leader as head of the Chinese Communist Party next year.
Other topics at the Kan-Biden talks may include the reconstruction of northeastern Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant crisis and the North Korean nuclear problem.
Biden, the first U.S. vice president to visit Japan since Dick Cheney in February 2007, will also visit Sendai, a major city damaged by the quake-tsunami disaster, on Tuesday afternoon, to demonstrate the U.S. administration's support for reconstruction.
He is scheduled to deliver an address on reconstruction at Sendai airport where U.S. forces conducted relief work under Operation Tomodachi.
Biden will be the highest-ranking Washington official to visit a disaster-damaged city in Japan.
He will meet with U.S. Embassy officials in Tokyo on Wednesday morning and visit a U.S. Air Force base in Tokyo's Yokota area in the afternoon.
Earlier Monday Biden met with Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold and President Tsakhia Elbegdorj in Ulan Bator before leaving for Japan.