A Japanese festival drums group performs for U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment and Japanese service members with the 12th Brigade, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force during a visit with the Nisei Veterans Committee as part of exercise Rising Thunder 2014 in Seattle Sept. 20, 2014. Rising Thunder is a U.S. Army-hosted exercise designed to build interoperability between I Corps, the 7th Infantry Division and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.