Celeste Hill, a Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni resident, eats somen nagashi, or sliding somen noodles, during a visit to Kinjuen Nursing Home with the MCAS Iwakuni Cultural Adaptation Program in Iwakuni City, Japan, July 7, 2017. The nursing home invited tenants of the air station to celebrate Tanabata, also known as the star festival. Participants of the event enjoyed traditional foods and other activities. Nobuo Kishi, center, the vice minister of foreign affairs of Japan and younger brother of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, joined the festivities with nursing home residents and Americans visi

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Celeste Hill, a Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni resident, eats somen nagashi, or sliding somen noodles, during a visit to Kinjuen Nursing Home with the MCAS Iwakuni Cultural Adaptation Program in Iwakuni City, Japan, July 7, 2017. The nursing home invited tenants of the air station to celebrate Tanabata, also known as the star festival. Participants of the event enjoyed traditional foods and other activities. Nobuo Kishi, center, the vice minister of foreign affairs of Japan and younger brother of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, joined the festivities with nursing home residents and Americans visiting from the air station. ( Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia-Herrera)

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