Students from Oshima district play water games with Marines at a pool party held as part of a four-day cultural exchange program which took place Aug. 6-9. The Home-Stay Program was hosted by Marine Corps Bases Japan volunteer families for 25 students and five chaperones from Oshima District, Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, which was heavily damaged in the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. MCB Japan hosts cultural exchange program 110808-M-PH080-006

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