Junior officers from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and junior officers stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, participate in a symposium on June 9, 2010. The Japanese junior officers are on a training mission in which they will visit 16 ports in 12 countries in a span of 156 days and Hawaii was their first stop on this trip. The symposium highlighted the bilateral alliance of the two countries and the key speaker was Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Gary Roughead.