Originally Posted by meanmom

My son is in the Navy in Japan and really likes it there. He has been there for 7 years. He is leaving next March and moving back to the states. He was stationed for a long time in Yokosuka, now he is in Iwakuni. It is a nice country. We visited once and loved it. Good luck to him. At least he wasn't sent to Iraq or Afganistan or somewhere like that.