My husband was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. He almost married a Japanese girl, they lived together for 5 years. Anyways, I've became good phone/internet friends with her as well of some of Mike's other Japanese friends. I love their culture. They are really neat people. We're possibly going back to Japan to be at Ginko's (Mike's Ex) wedding. She hasn't set a date yet, so we don't know when.