Japanese students wave while swimming during the pool party held for the student group on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 8, 2011. The twenty-five students and five adults from Oshima Island elementary and middle school are visiting Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler where they are staying with volunteer host families, for a four day cultural exchange and community relations event. The children are from the Tohoku Region of Japan where the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear incident displaced thousands of families and this event was coordinated and supported in order to enhance the existing spirit of mutual trust and partnership between the United States and Japan.