By STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 10, 2021 TOKYO Gregg Mowen, formerly the Japan community superintendent for Defense Department schools in Japan, died Jan. 4 at age 61. Mowen retired in spring 2020 after 19 years with the Department of Defense Education Activity. A native of Bowling Green, Ohio, he joined DODEA in 2001 and served as principal at Faith Middle School at Fort Benning, Ga.; Mudge Primary and Fort Knox High School in Kentucky; Zama High School near Tokyo and Kubasaki High School on Okinawa. Mowen also worked as an assistant superintendent at DODEA schools in Puerto Rico and Cuba and as DODEA-Okinawa chief of staff before taking the DODEA-Japan community superintendent’s post in his final year with the organization.