米海兵隊岩国航空基地

Karyo High School, Shunan City Children’s International Performance Group visit MCAS Iwakuni for cultural exchange, performance - A child with the Shunan City Children’s International Performance Group performs a dance at Matthew C. Perry High School on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Feb. 11, 2019. The event is held on the Japanese national holiday, ‘Kenkoku Kinen no Hi,’ or National Foundation Day. The holiday recognizes the 660 B.C. ascension of Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan. The event brings the opportunity for Americans to foster an understanding and respect for Japanese culture. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Mason Roy)

Learning the roots: station residents dig lotus roots - Anne Logan, a Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni resident, carries a lotus root during a cultural lotus root trip hosted by the Cultural Adaptation Program (CAP) in Iwakuni City, Japan, Feb. 5, 2019. Station residents took a trip to a local market and lotus root field with the CAP in order to learn about the lotus root grown in Iwakuni. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Angelo Sagum)

MCAS Iwakuni service members visit nursing homes - U.S. service members and local Japanese residents pose for a photo at Kinjuen Nursing Home in Iwakuni City, Japan, Feb. 2, 2019. The service members visited the Kinjuen and Hidamarino-ie nursing homes to experience traditional Japanese culture and strengthen bonds with their host nation. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Stephen Campbell)

Visitors from Suo-Oshima present air station students with mikans - Farmers from Suo-Oshima, Curtis Brown, the student representative of Matthew C. Perry and Iwakuni Elementary Schools, Yoshihiko Fukuda, mayor of Iwakuni City, U.S. Marine Corps Col. Richard F. Fuerst, commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Sgt. Maj. Joseph Gregory, sergeant major of MCAS Iwakuni, and Dwayne Jefferson, principal of Iwakuni Elementary School pose for a photo during a mikan presentation at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, Jan. 28, 2019. Farmers arrived at the school bearing mikans as gifts for the students. Mikans are a unique fruit to the country and the farmers wanted the children to experience them while in Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Stephen Campbell)

AIMD Iwakuni spends day touring Suo-Oshima, Yanai - U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Miyano, right, the officer in charge of Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Detachment (AIMD) Iwakuni, talks with his daughters in a police car on display during the Mochi Broadcasting Carnival on Suo-Oshima Island, Japan, Jan. 20, 2019. The Sailors were invited to the event by the Suo-Oshima Tourism Association and volunteered by throwing mochi to the crowd. AIMD attended the mochi throwing event as a way to increase morale and unit cohesion. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Andrew Jones)

MCAS Iwakuni host Friendship Tour - Local Japanese residents conduct a walkthrough of a family housing unit during a friendship tour at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Jan. 14, 2019. The purpose of the tour was to deepen the public’s understanding of U.S.-Japan alliance defense activities, witness daily life on the air station and experience American culture. It consisted of a window tour of the air station via bus, and a walkthrough of M.C. Perry Middle School, a family housing unit and the commissary. The tour concluded with a lunch at Crossroads Mall. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Stephen Campbell)