Scouting in the Marshall Islands Scouting in the Marshall Islands Scouting in the Marshall Islands is in a state of development and growth. Scouting has existed in the islands since at least the 1970s, and may have been developed as early as the 1950s. Like the other former Trust Territories of the Pacific, Boy Scouting in the Marshall Islands is developing as part of the Aloha Council Pacific Basin District. Its Order of the Arrow lodge is Na Mokupuni O Lawelawe Lodge #567. For Girl Scouts, there are Girl Scouts of the USA Overseas in Ebeye, Kwajalein, and Majuro, served by USAGSO headquarters in New
Japanese settlement in the Marshall Islands closer cultural and economic ties with Japan. Japanese firms that were based on the Marshall Islands since the 1960s actively sought joint ventures with local companies from the 1980s onwards, mainly in the fishery sector. Expatriates usually consisted of Okinawan fishermen based at Majuro, where Japanese companies have built smoking and canning facilities to facilitate the processing of tuna catches. The Marshall Islands remained sparsely populated by Japanese settlers, relative to the other mandated Micronesian islands. The first pre-war census of the Marshall Islands counted 490 Japanese among 10,000 Marshallese, and the number of Japanese settlers increased to 680 scattered