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SHOTLIST 1. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks into room with other officials 2. News media 3. Clinton standing by chair, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso walks in UPSOUND (English) Clinton: "Hi, how are you?" Clinton and Aso shake hands, talk 4. Photographer 5. Clinton and Aso sitting, talking, zoom into Clinton, pan to Aso 6. Clinton walking into auditorium in Tokyo University, walks onto stage 7. Student introducing Clinton 8. Wide of Clinton on stage 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State: "So I would hope that part of what you would think of doing is working to change some of the ways that society, and governments and businesses look at women in the workplace. Because women should be judged on the work they do. And there is room for more women in any society to be actively involved in the world of work without giving up on having children." 10. Clinton greeting students 11. Clinton and Aso entering room for dinner 12. Various of Clinton, Aso and other delegates at dinner STORYLINE Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso in Tokyo on Tuesday, and invited him to visit Washington next week. On her first trip abroad as America's top diplomat, Clinton stressed the United States' commitment to Japan's security, signed a military deal to advance that and underscored the importance of the alliance by inviting Aso to become the first foreign leader to visit US President Barack Obama at the White House. Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said Aso has accepted the invitation. Later Clinton met students at Tokyo University where she spoke about the role of women in the workplace. "Women should be judged on the work they do. And there is room for more women in any society to be actively involved in the world of work without giving up on having children," she said. Japanese officials have expressed their satisfaction that Clinton chose Japan as her initial stop on her first overseas trip since becoming Obama's chief diplomat. Although Aso remains deeply unpopular at home, the 24 February summit in Washington is seen as a sign that the world's two largest economies know they have a special responsibility to deal with the global financial crisis. Earlier Clinton and Nakasone signed an agreement to reduce tensions caused by the presence of US troops on Japanese soil. Under the deal, which has been in the works for years, 8-thousand Marines now stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the US Pacific territory of Guam. There are 50-thousand American troops in Japan, about 20-thousand of them on Okinawa. Clinton had hoped to broaden US-Asian relations to include climate change, clean energy and the world's economic woes on her maiden overseas voyage, but North Korea and its increasingly belligerent rhetoric toward its neighbours were clearly at the top of her agenda. Just before she arrived in Japan on Monday, North Korea used the 67th birthday of its leader Kim Jong Il to claim it had the right to "space development" - a term it has used in the past to disguise a long-range missile test as a satellite launch. A day later, Clinton, without prompting, told reporters at a news conference with Nakasone that such a move would jeopardise the Obama administration's willingness to work for better ties with Pyongyang. Clinton is due to leave for Indonesia on Wednesday morning, followed by visits to South Korea and China. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/9c682eb14092870b1fbaac772fc8bcd7 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork