Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan

Michiyo Okazaki, a Japanese volunteer, demonstrates how to make Norimaki during a sushi making class hosted by the Marauders Spouse Club, Feb. 22, 2014, aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. The Marauders Spouse Club offered the class to spouses and guests from all units aboard station. - Michiyo Okazaki, a Japanese volunteer, demonstrates how to make Norimaki during a sushi making class hosted by the Marauders Spouse Club, Feb. 22, 2014, aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. The Marauders Spouse Club offered the class to spouses and guests from all units aboard station.

Summer Kehr, Japanese cooking class participant, prepares the fish broth soup for her group at the Iwakuni Fukushikaikan, Oct. 11, 2013. The fish broth soup also included small squares of tofu. - Summer Kehr, Japanese cooking class participant, prepares the fish broth soup for her group at the Iwakuni Fukushikaikan, Oct. 11, 2013. The fish broth soup also included small squares of tofu.

Kikuko Shinjo, caretaker at the Iwakuni Youth Hostel, shared laughs with the small class as she gave a brief history lesson about the Hina Dolls and their significance to Japanese culture Feb. 16. Most households annually display hina-ningyo, which are special dolls or sets of dolls staged upon a red-carpeted stand with five or seven steps, during the birth or celebration of a young girl. - Kikuko Shinjo, caretaker at the Iwakuni Youth Hostel, shared laughs with the small class as she gave a brief history lesson about the Hina Dolls and their significance to Japanese culture Feb. 16. Most households annually display hina-ningyo, which are special dolls or sets of dolls staged upon a red-carpeted stand with five or seven steps, during the birth or celebration of a young girl.