 The 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force Band and the 15th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Band practice for the 16th annual Friendship Concert. As you can hear behind me, the Japanese, they're all phenomenal musicians, so every single time that we get to perform with them, I feel like I really have to turn up my game a little bit because they're such amazing accomplished musicians. This is Staff Sergeant Norris' third and possibly last Friendship Concert. He says the concert helps to overcome cultural differences between Japanese and American service members. You know, they speak Japanese, we speak English, but deep down we're both musicians and that language, we're able to communicate even though we don't all speak Japanese, they don't all speak English. The Friendship Concert continues to bring the United States and Japan together through the universal language of music. Lance Corporal Kaz Krul, Camp Foster, Okinawa.