{"id":422631,"date":"2025-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=422631"},"modified":"2025-04-23T03:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T03:26:26","slug":"camp-zama-invites-japanese-families-to-join-event-celebrating-month-of-the-military-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=422631","title":{"rendered":"Camp Zama invites Japanese families to join event celebrating Month of the Military Child"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 Installation leaders invited Japanese families to join a festival here that celebrated children and featured games, rides, an obstacle course, live performances, refreshments and more.<\/p>\n

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\n The Zama Middle High School Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps color guard presents the U.S. and Japanese flags for the playing of both countries\u2019 national anthems before the start of the \u201cKodomo No Matsuri,\u201d or Children\u2019s Festival, held April 12 Yano Field on Camp Zama, Japan.
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Camp Zama\u2019s Child and Youth Services and the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation co-hosted the \u201cKodomo No Matsuri,\u201d or Children\u2019s Festival, April 12 on Yano Field here in celebration of the Month of the Military Child.<\/p>\n

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Invited to join the event were families from the cities of Zama and Sagamihara, within which Camp Zama resides, as well as from nearby Yokohama. Japanese guests have been invited to other events on the installation in the past, such as the \u201cHaunted Hangar\u201d and \u201cTrunk-or-Treat\u201d Halloween celebrations in October.<\/p>\n

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Haru Inomata, 8, said she enjoyed herself at the festival. Among her favorite activities were a basketball free-throw game and a large inflatable slide rode down again and again.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sister and I had so much fun today,\u201d Haru said. \u201cWe want to come back again!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Asiel Morales, a senior at Zama Middle High School, volunteered at the event as a member of the Keystone Club. He saw \u201ca lot of smiles\u201d on the faces of the children as they ran around the field enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event is a great way to show our appreciation \u2026 for the contributions of military children,\u201d Morales said.<\/p>\n

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Col. Marcus Hunter, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Japan, echoed the sentiment, saying the festival and other events held during the Month of the Military Child \u201ccelebrate the achievements of military children and \u2026 honor their sacrifices in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During his opening remarks, Hunter praised the military children who volunteered for the event and demonstrated their talents in various live performances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis festival is a great example of the values of unity and partnership [that we live by],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The following week on April 19, Child and Youth Services hosted their \u201cEgg-Stravaganza\u201d Easter event on Sagamihara Family Housing Area as part of ongoing celebrations throughout the Month of the Military Child. Children up to age 12 were divided into four groups and got to hunt for eggs in a large grass field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A child bungee jumps during the \u201cKodomo No Matsuri,\u201d or Children\u2019s Festival, held April 12 at Yano Field on Camp Zama, Japan. (Photo Credit: Noriko Kudo) VIEW ORIGINAL CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 Installation leaders invited Japanese families to join a festival here that celebrated children and featured games, rides, an obstacle course, live performances, refreshments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422633,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422631","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\/422631","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=422631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422642,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422631\/revisions\/422642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/422633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}