Service members visit school, interact with children
April 23, 2016 — Service members from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni visited children at Josho Hoikuen School in Iwakuni City, Japan, as part of a community relations event hosted by the Marine Memorial Chapel April 19, 2016.Visiting the school provided service members the chance to teach children how to speak and count in English, fostering the friendship MORE
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Hush houses reduce noise in Iwakuni, Japan
December 14, 2015 — Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, reduces noise in the local area with the use of new hush houses.Aircraft operate during the day, so night is maintenance time. Using these hush house facilities allow nighttime testing to be conducted without the sound of the engines disturbing station residents or people in the local area outside of the MORE
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National Honor Society members give back to community
November 17, 2015 — Nineteen students with the National Honor Society at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, visited the Kaede Nursing Home in Iwakuni, Nov. 17, 2015.This visit allowed students the opportunity to give back to the local community, experience a new culture and make new friends. Events like this aides in strengthening the bond between the station MORE
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Station residents attend Japanese Calligraphy Brush Festival, Museum
September 23, 2015 — Residents of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, ventured to Kumano Town in Hiroshima Prefecture, for the annual Japanese Calligraphy Brush Festival, Sept. 23, 2015.The cultural adaption program aboard station coordinated this event to provide service members and their families a chance to travel beyond the installations gates and experience MORE
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Service members clean Kintai, polishing U.S.-Japan friendship
September 4, 2015 — Service members aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, volunteered with the Single Marine Program to clean the Kintai-area in Iwakuni, Japan, Sep. 4, 2015.Various organizations and tenant units aboard the air station foster the friendship between the U.S. and Japan by conducting these community relations events each year.“Today we are MORE
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Service members bond with Japanese students
August 11, 2015 — Service members aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, taught children English at Josho Hoikuen School in Iwakuni City as part of a community relations event hosted by the Marine Memorial Chapel, August 11, 2015.Marine Memorial Chapel offers an abundance of opportunities for service members and station residents to participate in community MORE
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Station volunteers teach English at local Japanese school
July 30, 2015 — Service members aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, volunteered to teach English to students at Midoro Hoikuen School in Iwakuni City, July 30, 2015.The Marine Memorial Chapel provides service members and their families a way to interact more closely with their Japanese neighbors. This interaction provides a window through which MORE
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Station residents learn to cook Oriental dishes
July 24, 2015 — The cultural adaption program aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni coordinated a Japanese cooking class where station residents could practice their culinary skills at Fukushi Kaikan in Iwakuni, Japan, July 24, 2015.This type of class is held three times a year and is one of many ways to indulge in the local cuisine. In this specific class, MORE
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MCAS Iwakuni residents experience Tea Harvesting
May 7, 2015 — Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, residents visited Hirose-Iwakuni High School to harvest green tea leaves in Iwakuni City, May 7, 2015.Coordinated by the Cultural Adaption Program aboard station, high school staff and students greeted guests with an opening ceremony and baskets ready to be filled with green tea leaves.The students, guests MORE
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Service members from MCAS Iwakuni give back to local community
March 13, 2015 — Roughly 20 minutes by car from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, down an obscure road off of Route 188, lays Tsuzu Beach. Also known as Glass Beach, it offers visitors beautiful scenery, calm waters and the opportunity to collect seaglass from the shore, but service members from MCAS Iwakuni had a different reason for hitting the beach.The MORE
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