{"id":321504,"date":"2024-11-25T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=321504"},"modified":"2024-11-27T01:59:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T01:59:20","slug":"765th-transportation-terminal-bn-soldiers-japan-ground-self-defense-force-members-work-together-to-beautify-historical-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=321504","title":{"rendered":"765th Transportation (Terminal) Bn. Soldiers, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members work together to beautify historical stone…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Soldiers assigned to the 765th Transportation (Terminal) Battalion and members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force work together to beautify the large \u201cSobudai\u201d stone monument Nov. 19 on Camp Zama. The effort marked the first time both groups partnered to clean the monument, which sits near the Camp Zama Chapel.
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\n A Soldier assigned to the 765th Transportation (Terminal) Battalion collects leaves near the large \u201cSobudai\u201d stone monument with a member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Nov. 19 during a joint cleanup effort on Camp Zama.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 U.S. Army Soldiers and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members here worked together Nov. 19 to beautify a piece of history on the installation that dates to World War II.<\/p>\n

The effort marked the first time both groups partnered to clean the large, hand-etched stone, known as the \u201cSobudai\u201d monument, which sits near the Camp Zama Chapel.<\/p>\n

The Soldiers, assigned to the 765th Transportation (Terminal) Battalion, and the JGSDF members, stationed on Camp Zama, also raked leaves and neatened the area around the monument.<\/p>\n

The monument has been on the site where Camp Zama now sits for more than 80 years, going back to when it was formerly the home of the Japanese Imperial Military Academy. It is inscribed on the front with the word \u201cSoubudai.\u201d Then-Emperor Hirohito gave the campus the same name, which means \u201cmilitary training heights in Sagami,\u201d when he attended the academy\u2019s first graduation ceremony held there in 1937.<\/p>\n

Command Sgt. Maj. David A. Rio, the U.S. Army Garrison Japan garrison senior enlisted leader, said the Soldiers here regularly work with the JGSDF to clean the installation and its neighboring areas outside the gate. Their first effort cleaning the monument was notable because of its importance to the installation, Rio said. Before the group began, the command sergeant major explained to the Soldiers the monument\u2019s history and its significance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important for them to know [about the monument],\u201d Rio said. \u201cIt\u2019s a representation of the alliance between our two nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

JGSDF Capt. Michiko Mukaiyama, assigned to the 441st Finance Unit, said that joining the cleanup effort gave her some unique insight about the history of the monument. When it was first erected, she said, the United States and Japan were on different sides of the war. But today, she said, the two nations have come together and are now allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis monument watched time go through,\u201d Mukaiyama said. \u201cIt tells us something, and we all need to share that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Soldiers assigned to the 765th Transportation (Terminal) Battalion and members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force work together to beautify the large \u201cSobudai\u201d stone monument Nov. 19 on Camp Zama. The effort marked the first time both groups partnered to clean the monument, which sits near […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321506,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321510,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321504\/revisions\/321510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}