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Frostbite Run

Participants do warm‐up exercises before the races start during the 39th Annual Frostbite Run, Jan.19, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Approximately 11,450 runners attended the Frostbite Run hosted by the Yokota Striders Running Club. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

A Japanese employee prepares Matcha green tea for festival attendees during the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The festival offered a variety of entertainment such as: Japanese tea ceremonies, Kimoto try-on, Yosakoi dance performance, Taiko performance, photo sessions with armored samurai and food booths. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Children learn how to play the Koto, a traditional Japanese harp, from a Japanese employee during the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The event offered Yokota’s members an opportunity to experience a variety of traditional Japanese culture and foods, deepening the friendship between the U.S. community and Japanese employees. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Members of Team Yokota experience Sado, the Japanese traditional tea ceremony, during the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Sado is the ceremony of serving and having tea. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

A member of Team Yokota gets dressed in a Kimono during the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The event allowed for both men and women from Yokota to wear kimonos and experience a variety of traditions from Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

A member of the Samurai Taiko Drum Team performs during the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The festival offered a variety of entertainment such as: Japanese tea ceremonies, Kimoto try-on, Yosakoi dance performance, Taiko performance, photo sessions with armored samurai and food booths. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Members of the Samurai Taiko Drum Team perform during the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The Samurai Taiko Drum Team is made up of members of the Yokota community, including both American and Japanese performers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Members of Sokukai, Yosakoi dance performance group, perform during the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The event offered Yokota’s members an opportunity to experience a variety of traditional Japanese culture and foods, deepening the friendship between the U.S. community and Japanese employees. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Members of Sokukai, Yosakoi dance performance group, perform during the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The Sokukai is a group made up of members of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force at Yokota AB. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Col. Otis C. Jones, 374th Airlift Wing commander, provides opening remarks for the New Year Fest hosted by the Japanese Welfare Association, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. In his remarks, Jones thanked the Japanese employees for taking the time to share their culture with base personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Yokota leadership breaks open a sake barrel along with the Japanese Welfare Association, Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Yokota Defense Office’s leaders during the JWA New Year Fest, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The festival offered a variety of entertainment such as: Japanese tea ceremonies, Kimoto try-on, Yosakoi dance performance, Taiko performance, photo sessions with armored samurai and food booths. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Yoichi Akimoto, president of the Japanese Welfare Association, gives opening remarks during the JWA New Year Fest, Jan.10, 2020, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The JWA is a non-profit group made up of Japanese employees at Yokota. For more than 70 years the JWA has provided morale, welfare and recreational activities for Yokota’s Japanese employees and the local community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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JWA New Year Fest

Japanese employees serve complimentary Ozoni, a Japanese traditional New Year soup containing rice cakes, and Oshiruko, a red bean soup with rice cakes, to members of Team Yokota. Ozoni is a dish made in Japanese homes in the New Year, calling on wishes for good health in the upcoming year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)

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US, Japan forces welcome new year with bilateral jump

A C-130J Super Hercules in a three-aircraft formation navigates mountainous terrain in preparation for landing at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Jan. 12 2020. The aircrafts, operated by the 36th Airlift Squadron, dropped a total of 101 U.S. Army and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force paratroopers into a Camp Narashino training area for a public display of bilateral military capabilites. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Taylor A. Workman)

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US, Japan forces welcome new year with bilateral jump

A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force paratrooper with the 1st Airborne Brigade awaits the first bilateral jump event of the year over Camp Narashino, Chiba, Japan, Jan. 12 2020. The jump, which dropped a total of 301 JGSDF and U.S. Army paratroopers, emphasized the combined forces commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Taylor A. Workman)

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US, Japan forces welcome new year with bilateral jump

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and U.S. Army troops file into C-130J Super Hercules aircrafts prior to the first bilateral jump event of the new year over Camp Narashino, Chiba, Japan, Jan. 12 2020. The drop consisted of three C-130Js from Yokota Air Base, two Japan Air Self-Defense Force C-130H Hercules, two C-1s, and a C-2, dropping a total of 301 U.S. Army and JGSDF jumpers.(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Taylor A. Workman)

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US, Japan forces welcome new year with bilateral jump

A U.S. Army paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division steps up to the open door of a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft over the Camp Narashino training area, Chiba, Japan, Jan. 12 2020. The drop was the climax of the Japan Forces annual New Year's Jump, designed to showcase bilateral military capability in a training environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Taylor A. Workman)

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US, Japan forces welcome new year with bilateral jump

A U.S. Army paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division is first in line stepping up to the open door of a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft over the Camp Narashino training area, Chiba, Japan, Jan. 12 2020. The drop consisted of three C-130Js from Yokota Air Base, two Japan Air Self-Defense Force C-130H Hercules, two C-1s, and a C-2, dropping a total of 301 U.S. Army and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force jumpers.(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Taylor A. Workman)

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US, Japan forces welcome new year with bilateral jump

A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force paratrooper with the 1st Airborne Brigade lunges to the open door of a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft over the Camp Narashino training area, Chiba, Japan, Jan. 12 2020. The drop consisted of three C-130Js from Yokota Air Base, two Japan Air Self-Defense Force C-130H Hercules, two C-1s, and a C-2, dropping a total of 301 U.S. Army and JGSDF jumpers.(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Taylor A. Workman)

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US, Japan forces welcome new year with bilateral jump

Two U.S. Army jumpmasters signal 10 minutes until jump time for the 43 Japanese and American jumpers aboard a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft above the Camp Narashino training area, Japan, Jan. 12, 2020. The aircraft was one of three used in the Japanese Forces annual New Year's Jump which dates back to the 1960s and became a public event in the 1970s. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Taylor A. Workman)

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