Pacific Trends, Band of the Pacific-Asia popular music ensemble, plays for approximately 425 people at the Saitama Super Arena Keyaki Square, Saitama, Japan on Oct. 2, 2012. Trends filled every seat and attracted many passers-by with their contemporary music arrangements. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Josh Voyles)

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A Japanese man who arrived early to see Pacific Trends, Band of the Pacific-Asia popular music ensemble, sits and reviews his concert pamphlet at the Saitama Super Arena Keyaki Square, Saitama, Japan on Oct. 2, 2012. Every seat was filled prior to the start of the concert. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Josh Voyles)

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Staff Sgt. Geoff Fisher, center, Band of the Pacific-Asia vocalist, sings at the Saitama Super Arena Keyaki Square, Saitama, Japan on Oct. 2, 2012. Fisher and the two other lead vocalists took turns singing and harmonizing on the 10 songs Pacific Trends played. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Josh Voyles)

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A Japanese woman sings and claps along on Pacific Trends' rendition of "Sekai Ni," a popular modern Japanese song, at the Saitama Super Arena Keyaki Square, Saitama, Japan on Oct. 2, 2012. Audience members cheered and chanted "encore" before Trends responded with "Sekai Ni." (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Josh Voyles)

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Staff Sgt. Geoff Fisher, Band of the Pacific-Asia vocalist, and Staff Sgt. Mike Schmaus, Band of the Pacific-Asia bassist, pose for a photo with a Japanese woman at the Saitama Super Arena Keyaki Square, Saitama, Japan on Oct. 2, 2012. Many people expressed excitement to have a photograph taken with Pacific Trends after the concert. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Josh Voyles)

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Pacific Trends fills every seat in Saitama

Published Oct. 3, 2012
By Staff Sgt. Josh Voyles
U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific-Asia

SAITAMA, Japan -- Pacific Trends, Band of the Pacific-Asia popular music ensemble, traveled to Saitama, Japan, to perform for an audience of approximately 425 at the Saitama Super Arena Keyaki Square Oct. 2.

The Band of the Pacific-Asia has been stationed at Yokota Air Base since 1988 and gives about 400 performances each year for an audience totalling more than 150,000 people. In its travels, the band has performed in Hong Kong, Burma, Guam, Singapore, India, Mongolia, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines and Laos, and regularly tours Korea and Japan.