U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Kyle B. Ellison, the 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade Commanding General, speaks with Japanese Maj. Gen. Shingo Nashinoki, Commander of Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade...
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jackson Lockaby, a cannoneer section chief with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division, exchanges information with members of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force about the M777A2 155mm Howitzer during Artillery RelocationTraining Program 21.3 at Yausubetsu Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 20, 2021.
U.S. Marines with the III Marine Expeditionary Force and members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 15th Brigade bands came together April 16 to perform the annual spring concert at Tedako Hall in Urasoe.
The Marines and Sailors of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and the soldiers of the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force executed a bilateral raid at Kin Blue Beach and in the Central Training Area (CTA), Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 1, 2021.
U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Dakota Ford, a communication strategy and operations officer attached to 3d Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, sights in during exercise Forest Light Eastern Army in mainland Japan on Dec. 16, 2020.
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade is taking part in Yama Sakura 79 alongside III Marine Expeditionary Force’s 3D Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Dec. 9 to Dec. 14, 2020.
U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment observe a demonstration from the 30th Infantry Regiment, 12th Brigade, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, on use of the Howa Type-89 assault rifle for a combat marksmanship course.
Soldiers with 15th Logistics Support Unit view historical artifacts at a museum in Combat Logistics Regiment 37’s headquarters building during a visit to 3rd Marine Logistics Group (MLG) on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 29, 2020.
The III Marine Expeditionary Force and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 15th Brigade bands performed together from June 15 to 18 on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan.
Want to have some fun in the kitchen? Well, you should make her some Okinawan doughnuts. Sata Andagi are very simple to make, even if you are not an expert in the kitchen. It’s time to put on an apron and get cooking!
If you have traveled to Okinawa, you may have stumbled across a dish fit for kings. It’s true, rafute, or braised pork belly, was served as a staple to Okinawan royalty.
Winter is the time where there are more chances of getting sick than in any other seasons. This winter looks no less unforgiving with a very contagious variant of COVID-19 adding another obstacle to the already difficult season.
During lunch, you may have witnessed a Japanese coworker eating out of a home-packed box. Or maybe during a stroll in the park, you noticed a salarymen sitting on a bench with a smartphone and a little wooden lunch box.
