Verizon Phone Service on Kadena
CONTRIBUTED BY KANDY In a community, confusion and frustration is common during times of change. A positive outcome of these feelings is unity in finding a common goal. On April 1, 2009, the Kadena...
View ArticleParty In The USA: Okinawa Version
I received a fun email from Brenda last week about a video her son directed and edited and had uploaded to YouTube. In the last couple of days, the video seems to have gone “viral” on FaceBook as...
View ArticlePhone Calls – DSN Numbers
CONTRIBUTED BY MEGAN H. Sooner or later, while living here on Okinawa, you will have to make phone calls into the DSN system. Basically, there are local Okinawan numbers and there are DSN numbers,...
View ArticleCell Phones on Okinawa, Part 2
CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER GELORMINE Technology moves fast. Lightning fast. So quickly that the iPhone 4s that my husband and I got when we PCS’d back to the US last summer and which had just been...
View ArticleKeeping Kids Connected with Long-Distance Relatives
CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER GELORMINE When my family and I moved to Okinawa last summer, our families had warned us ahead of time: We’re not going to be able to make it out there to visit you. It’s just...
View ArticleNewlywed PCS, Part 5: Exhaustion and Awe
For those of you planning a move to Okinawa soon, we hope Marie’s descriptions of the process of their travel and first months of settling in can help you with a few of the “unknowns.” To read more of...
View ArticleStephanie’s Boutique
CONTRIBUTED BY DANNY WILSON Hello Okinawa Hai friends! I just wanted to take a minute to tell you all about this cool little place my wife found. So there we were bored one Thursday night when my wife...
View ArticleLearning Japanese With Apps
CONTRIBUTED BY COURTNEY FRY Admittedly, I am a linguaphile — I choose to study other languages for fun. In fact, learning Japanese was one of the things that most appealed to me about moving to...
View ArticleLearning Japanese Online
CONTRIBUTED BY COURTNEY FRY What’s that? You want to learn some Japanese but don’t have an iPhone, or want something more in-depth than the apps? Here are a few ways you can learn with your computer,...
View ArticlePhone Numbers – 2014 Updates, PLUS How To Make Calls From DSN or Cell Phones
CONTRIBUTED BY KACEY A. click photo for image source Early in 2014, a few of the bases on Okinawa changed their telephone policies, preventing people direct dialing from Japanese commercial phones to...
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