Islamabad, March 18, SPA -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left Islamabad on Friday for Japan, the next stop on her first official Asian trip. Rice met with President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan and also made a quick stopover in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai. Other stops on Rice's trip include China and South Korea. --SPA 1305 Local Time 1005 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/247673