Lt. Gen. Kenneth Glueck, commanding general, III Marine Expeditionary Force, visited Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, here, May 28. His two-day visit consisted of speaking to Marines about the MRF-D initiative at a brief, touring surrounding Australian military facilities and eating lunch with sergeants and below.
and here's some predictable nonsense about humanitarian response:
“It’s all about being forward deployed and being able to meet the crisis response like we did in Operation Tamagotchi. We responded within 18 hours,” added Glueck. “They will never forget what the Marines brought to that area and how fast we responded.”

the article linked here: http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/is-u-s-military-relief-effort-operation-tomodachi-really-about-friendship suggests a different legacy of Tamagotchi.
Apparently the Japanese got billed for an imposed visit by the U..S. Marine Corps’ Chemical Biological Incident Response Force that went to Japan only for show, and didnt ever go to Fukushima.