Japan Junket has high hopes for hybrids

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is on his way to Japan to discuss a number of issues...among them, building hybrid cars in California:

In addition to high-profile dinners and receptions promoting Golden State tourism, agriculture and the idea of California as an attractive business investment, much of Schwarzenegger's trip will be taken up with a series of private meetings with Japanese business leaders that his staff has refused to divulge until the mission begins on Wednesday.

Some of the agenda has leaked out in the Japanese media, however, where there have been reports of a private meeting with Toyota officials, whom Schwarz enegger presumably wants to lobby about manufacturing the automaker's Prius in California.