As you might already know, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Japan a few days for an “ice-melting” trip to improve relations between the two countries:

A smiling Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sipped Japanese green tea, played baseball with college students and declared his trip a success on Friday, wrapping up a tour aimed at warming chilled ties and drawing investment to China.

Did you read the articles about Wen Jiabao playing baseball and wonder how well he played? I sure did. Luckily, I was able to find a Japanese news report that showed the Premier’s mad baseball skillz (he said it was the first time in 50 years he had played baseball):

Another cool moment of the Japan trip was Wen Jiabao’s morning jog:

Wen has sought to use his human touch as a diplomatic tool — chatting with Tokyo residents during an early morning jog & joining in group exercises.

Want some video of that? Here it is:

Pretty cool of the Premier to pose for pictures with random Japanese people he met in the park. No doubt his friendliness on this trip helped score some points to bring in the Japanese tourist dollars for the olympics next year!