Yellow Box Furniture Opens Nearly 29,000-Square-Foot Store at Camp Foster

The Okinawa Exchange celebrated the grand opening of Yellow Box Furniture on Camp Foster on April 12. The 28,624-square-foot store replaces a former Camp Foster Yellow Box that was more than 10 times smaller.

The grand opening ceremony was attended by Col. Jason Beck, AAFES Pacific Region Commander; Shota Noborikawa, Yellow Box Director; Isoroku (Roku) Motomura, Yellow Box Store Manager; Naoko Teruya, Services Business Manager; and Kristine Cowley, General Manager, Okinawa Exchange.

“We are thankful that we can enhance this collaboration we have with Yellow Box,” Cowley said. “They truly are providing our Warfighters and their families with a ‘sense of home’.”

Added Col. Beck: “The collaboration with Yellow Box allows a great number of options for our service members to outfit their homes with furniture not only from Japan, but from around the Pacific. Yellow Box is a great option as they have very reasonable prices and constantly change their inventory to keep customers coming in. The collaboration is perfect for the unique environment of Okinawa!”

Yugen Gaisha C&D (aka Yellow Box) was founded in 2004 and started doing business with the Exchange in 2006, under a Long-Term Roving Contract. The Exchange started a Long-Term Commodity Contract with Yellow Box on Camp Foster, Camp Courtney and Kadena Air Base in 2011.

The store has 21 employees, consisting of sales associates, delivery drivers and warehouse workers.

Yellow Box’s specialties include:

• Providing a taste of home by featuring a wide variety of American furniture, as well as furniture from Bali, Thailand, Vietnam, and India.
• Importing new products every week.
• Striving to provide competitive prices.
• Earliest delivery time is next day.
• Delivery and assembling new furniture.
• Friendly atmosphere and bilingual sales associates with deep knowledge about products.

From left: Shota Noborikawa, Yellow Box Director; Isoroku (Roku) Motomura, Yellow Box Store Manager; Benjamin Bigger, Yellow Box Supervisor; Naoko Teruya, Okinawa Services Business Manager; Kristine Cowley, Okinawa Exchange General Manager; Col Jason L. Beck, Pacific Region Exchange Commander.