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The 2013 calendar was only available for a couple of short months at the end of 2012 and the beginning of this year.  In case you missed the opportunity to purchase one for yourself, we’d like to show you what you’re missing. This was May’s page: Dragon Boat Race Photo Credit: Tony Castellani; www.flickr.com/people/t_castellani/ See [...]

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We’d like to send out a great big THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to complete our 2013 Reader Surveys.  Thanks to you, we have a much better idea of what we’re doing that you like, and where you think we can improve. It also became clear to us that you’ve got some [...]

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Kadena AB, near Gate 3, NCO-CGO Housing One of the biggest unknowns – and often unanswered questions – when moving to a new duty station is, “Where am I going to live? What will it look like?  How much space will I have?”  Though there are as many opinions about whether to live on base [...]

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When my family and I were preparing to move to Okinawa I had a hundred sixty-seven (thousand) questions.  One of the biggest ones was about housing (what would it look like? what were our options?).  The other was for my daughter: What were our options for preschool? This was before I found Okinawa Hai, and [...]

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The 2013 calendar was only available for a couple of short months at the end of 2012 and the beginning of this year.  In case you missed the opportunity to purchase one for yourself, we’d like to show you what you’re missing.  This was April’s page: American Village Photo credit: Danielle McIlroy “Vending machine there [...]

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The 2013 calendar was only available for a couple of short months at the end of 2012 and the beginning of this year.  In case you missed the opportunity to purchase one for yourself, we’d like to show you what you’re missing. This was March’s page: Japanese Underground Headquarters Photo credit: Alex White; facebook.com/DovelyPhotography Hiji [...]

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The 2013 calendar was only available for a couple of short months at the end of 2012 and the beginning of this year.  In case you missed the opportunity to purchase one for yourself, we’d like to show you what you’re missing.  This was February’s page: Yomitan Pottery Village Photo credit: Aviva Bowman; Aviva Photography, [...]

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The 2013 calendar was only available for a couple of short months at the end of 2012 and the beginning of this year.  In case you missed the opportunity to purchase one for yourself, we’d like to show you what you’re missing.  This was January’s page: 58 past Nago Photo credit: Pamela Oliveras; www.pamelaoliveras.com See [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY KASSIE O’DRISCOLL My husband and I took a little stay-cation to Okuma. It was a last minute decision, but that’s what happens when cabins and resorts fill up so quickly around here! I woke up one morning and saw a Kadena FSS announcement that the resort had opened up another “Turtle Nest” cabin [...]

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It’s been a big year for us at Okinawa Hai!  All of us on staff had the “privilege” of moving/PCSing or dealing with deployment or BOTH in 2012.  We also gave birth to two new sister websites and started… big breath…  wait for it…  PINNING AND TWEETING!!!  I know, I know, we are so cool. [...]

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