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- [Narrator] Marine Corps
Air Station Iwakuni students

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and local Japanese
students performed together

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for the 10th annual
US-Japan Friendship concert

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at the Iwakuni cultural center.

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The concert allowed American
and Japanese students

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to connect despite the language barrier.

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- Both ways they are very nice because

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with instruments and with
not speaking as much Japanese

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as I would like to,

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you really can just play music

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and understand they have a
bond while playing music.

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Though you may not have
other things that interest

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you know for a fact that
music is at least one

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and there's also translators here

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with that I was able
with some of my friends

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to talk to some Japanese
high school students

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who play instruments

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that I was able to talk
to them about things

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that we do have in common besides music.

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So it's very nice to have all of that.

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- [Narrator} For the finale,

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the students performed a whole new world

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from Disney's Aladdin.

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Reporting from equal New Japan,

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I'm Lance Corporal Joshua Davis.