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In Our Community – “THE MICRONESIANS”

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Veteran History – EARL TERAO: KOTONK IN PARADISE

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Poetry – COW 1 IS NOT COW 2

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Veteran History – EARL TERAO: KOTONK IN PARADISE

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Byrnes Yamashita Commentary, Special to The Hawai‘i Herald “Kotonk” A Japanese American from the continental United States vis-à-vis a Japanese American from Hawai‘i. Originating from World War II-era conflict between Hawai‘i-born and U.S. mainland-born Japanese Americans...

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Ryan’s Table – IT’S SMOKIN!

Columnist Ryan Tatsumoto - December 2, 2022

Ryan Tatsumoto Hawai‘i Herald Columnist Several years ago, I previously highlighted several smoking devices that I currently use, ranging from both vertical and horizontal wood and charcoal, to a smaller bullet and an electric wood-pellet smoker....

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Dad’s Three Cats

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Dad's Three Cats by Gwen Muranaka

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Columnist Jon J. Murakami - December 2, 2022

GENERATION GAP by Jon J. Murakami

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Dialogue – REFLECTIONS

Commentary Hawaii Herald - December 2, 2022

Kristen Nemoto Jay Commentary When I was 19 years old, I was in a severe car accident. My friends and I had scored last-minute tickets to see a taping of the third season of American Idol...

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As today marks the day, 81 years ago when the bomb

As today marks the day, 81 years ago when the bombing of Pearl Harbor changed the lives of so many people, we especially remember the hundreds of thousands of who were rounded up like cattle soon after and sent away to remote, deserted and lifeless concentration camps throughout the United States.

This photo, a repost from @jamuseum is "a rare Kodachrome photograph taken by Bill Manbo during his incarceration at the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming in 1943 and 1944. It shatters preconceptions about this episode of injustice by showing it to us in vivid and beautiful color.

Manbo was ahead of his time—while others were shooting in black-and-white, he shot in Kodachrome, a technology then in its infancy. The images are a paradox: vibrant, gorgeous photographs of a bleak historical episode.

Eighteen of Manbo's photographs were presented in JANM's 2014 exhibition, Colors of Confinement. Their brilliant color also strips away the sense that these are 'historical' photographs; the pictured events look as though they could be happening today."

Photo courtesy of Takeo Bill Manbo

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Fun with our favorite photographer @burandon_san t

Fun with our favorite photographer @burandon_san today! Lots of fun January stuffs happening, folks! Stay tuned!
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In "Kotonk in Paradise," Byrnes Yamashita writes a

In "Kotonk in Paradise," Byrnes Yamashita writes about Nisei veteran Earl Terao. Yamashita discusses Terao’s personal upbringing, the first story in his series of Nisei living in Hawai‘i who have connections to incarceration in WWII.

Terao's parents owned a small corner grocery store and lost everything when they were incarcerated at the outset of WWII. The unfairness of their personal economic hardship and loss of freedom during the incarceration embittered them for many years after the war against the U.S. government.

Like many Los Angeles residents, the Teraos were ordered to report to the Santa Anita racetrack where they were quartered in a former stable. Years later, Earl Terao remembers his mother’s memories about the horrible stench of the horse manure and urine that permeated the stable, where she would give birth to his oldest brother, Emery.

Earl was born in 1943 in the Poston internment camp in Arizona where the family was assigned. While just an infant during their incarceration, he recalls his mother’s experience about the unrelenting heat, dust storms that got sand into everything and the severe lack of privacy since families shared a barrack building with only cloth sheets serving as a makeshift wall dividing families.

Read more about veteran Earl Terao, his personal upbringing and how he came to live in Hawai‘i in our current issue, out in stands now! Issues are sold at Marukai, Times McCully and Kahala, and JCCHawaii gift shop.

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Photo description: Earl Terao poses for a photo in his garden, wearing a long-sleeve blue shirt, khaki pants and red suspenders. A quote by Byrnes Yamashita in white lettering with a gray background reads to the left of the photo: "By learning about what happened to the Nikkei on the Mainland, we can appreciate how the incarceration affected their families for generations and gain a greater understanding and empathy for what they went through; and in some cases are still experiencing."

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Under the rising sun The enemy came Wearing my fac

Under the rising sun
The enemy came
Wearing my face.
After Pearl Harbor, I became the enemy
After 9/11, the enemy was Islam.
After COVID-19, it was China.
Now the enemy wears Putin’s face.
Putin brutalizes Ukraine
Your Russian neighbor looks like Putin,
Speaks Putin’s language, but he is not Putin.
Cow 1 is not Cow 2.
My ancestors bombed Pearl Harbor,
I look like my ancestors.
Careful, careful, Cow 1 is not Cow 2.
Such a simple, uncomplicated rule.

Semanticist Dr. S.I. Hayakawa wrote “Cow 1 is Not Cow 2” on the blackboard when I was a young college student in Hawai‘i. The class topic was on how language and our perceptions often lead to racism. He explained: “You are driving along the country road and you see a cow. Further down the road, you see another cow. That cow is not the first cow you saw. A black man robs you at gunpoint. The next black man you see is not the man who robbed you. An Asian rudely cuts in front of you at the cashier. All Asians are not that Asian who cut in front of you. Cow 1 is not Cow 2.”

Learn more about Dr. Hayakawa, the first and only Republican Japanese-American Senator in Congress, representing California, and how he affected the author Frances H. Kakugawa’s life when she took his University of Hawai‘i summer session course in the ‘60s. Story in our current issue of The Hawai'i Herald, out on stands and online now!

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Photo description: Dr. S.I. Hayakawa poses for a photo, wearing a suit, tie and glasses. A quote by Frances H. Kakugawa in white lettering with a gray background reads to the left of the photo: "Hero or villain, Dr. Hayakawa was always a hero because this man taught me, ETC. and Cow 1 is not Cow 2 and he wished me a Merry Christmas on a sad Christmas Eve.”

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As 2022 draws to a close, we reflect on the year a

As 2022 draws to a close, we reflect on the year and also examine how we, as humans, can show up better than how we were yesterday. Our cover story, “Reflections: Photos Challenge Discrimination Against Micronesians in Hawai‘i,” by Floyd K. Takeuchi, examines just that – how we can confront our own prejudices and learn how to change. Takeuchi discusses his book’s photo subjects and past photo exhibit at the Downtown Art Center entitled “The Micronesians,” where he captured nine Pacific Islander women of distinction within Hawai‘i’s community wearing the “Micronesian skirt.” He writes, “this photographic project is a modest attempt to force locals in Hawai‘i to face their own prejudices. It uses the so-called ‘Micronesian skirt’ as a symbol of the latent discrimination that festers in our contemporary society.” Read more about Takeuchi’s hope for the project and view his photo collection in our latest issue, out in stands tomorrow.

📹 video description: one to two second video snippets of articles within The Hawai'i Herald December 2, 2022 issue, which includes the cover story description above and the following stories below:

In Our Community by Floyd K. Takeuchi @fktakeuchi
Earl Terao: Kotonk in Paradise by Byrnes Yamashita
Cow 1 is Not Cow 2 by Frances H. Kakugawa
Dispatches from Japan by Kalani M. Fujiwara
Ryan’s Table by @gochisogorumet
“A Question of Loyalty” continued by Mike Malaghan
Mind-Body Wellness by Dr. Chad Sato
Your Social Security by Jane Burigsay

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Did you know each issue of The Hawai'i Herald inc

Did you know each issue of The Hawai'i Herald includes hilarious original comics, featuring:

Generation Gap by Jon J. Murakami
808 by Dennis Fujitake
Dad's Three Cats by Gwen Muranaka

Cozy up with the funnies with our current issue of The Hawai'i Herald, out on stands now. You can also read the story online (up to three reads free!) by going to our link in bio.

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Photo description: Two black-and-white cartoon slides. In the first slide a man with a talk bubble says "I told your grandma that she should embrace her mistakes." A boy looks up at the man and his talk bubble says, "So what happened?" The second slide shows the man turning away, and his talk bubble says, "She hugged me." The boy holds his face in his hands. (Artwork by Dennis Fujitake)

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Warren Nishimoto retired in 2017 after 37 years as

Warren Nishimoto retired in 2017 after 37 years as director of the Center for Oral History at the University of Hawai‘i. During the nearly four decades of his leadership, the Center produced over 850 interviews focusing on the working class in Hawai‘i.

According to Nishimoto, the 1950s through 1970s were pivotal decades that saw the rise of oral history as a legitimate form of historical documentation.

The Oral History Project was established in 1976 by the Hawai'i state legislature as a grant-in-aid to the ethnic studies program at UH Manoa and published three groundbreaking anthologies of oral interviews, capturing Hawai'i's diverse social and cultural history.

Learn more about Nishimoto and the Center for Oral History and how he and his team gave a voice to Hawai'i's working class in our current issue of The Hawai'i Herald, out in stands now!

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Photo description: Warren (far right) talking story with Paia, Maui residents John Perreira (left) and Yasuichi Takushi (middle) in preparation for the Oral History Project, “Stores and Storekeepers of Paia and Pu‘unene, Maui” in 1979. (Photo courtesy of Center for Oral History). A quote by Warren Nishimoto on gray background reads: "...the plantation histories were largely written by former white managers. To have retired workers recall not only what they did but why they did It, what life choices they made, why they came here In the first place, all of that was exciting."

This series is a partnership between The Hawai‘i Herald and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i. It celebrates the achievements of Japanese American men and women who live the values of earlier generations and continue their proud legacy. The authors are Melvin Inamasu and Violet Harada. The complete interview with Warren Nishimoto is available at the JCCH Tokioka Heritage Resource Center and can be read online in the JCCH website.

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When Grandpa Yasu's beloved wife Janet passed away

When Grandpa Yasu's beloved wife Janet passed away on Nov. 27, 2020, the day after Thanksgiving, Yasu moved back to his family’s home in Kohala a few months later in January 2021. The distance, however, never came between himself and his family at Hawaiian Pie Company. Yasu used FaceTime, the iPhone’s video calling application, to stay connected.

“All the times he couldn’t come in, he was in the bakery, because he was on the shelf on Facetime, always just watching over everybody. So, you could always just ask him a question. Even when he moved back to the Big Island, he was still on FaceTime until the day before he passed,” said daughter-in-law Jan Hori.

Yasu passed away on March 21, 2021 in Kohala. He was 88 years old. This past July, Yasu and Janet’s family scattered their ashes together at Māhukona Beach in Waimea, a place dear to Yasu’s heart.

Sons Joel and Dickie reflected on the important lessons their beloved father and grandfather imparted on them.

“Gotta work hard,” said Joel.

“No shortcuts,” said Dickie. “For me, it was never to rush. He was always one of those ‘Haste Makes Waste’ kind of guys. And he would always tell me to try. You never know what’ll happen until you try it.”

Learn more about the Hori family's 90-year history in the bakery business, how a major typo helped coin their family's original bakery name, and how you can get more of "Grandpa Yasu's Specials" (while supplies last) in our current issue of The Hawai'i Herald, out on stands today!

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Photo description: Grandpa Yasu holds up a freshly sugar coated malasada to the camera and smiles. A quote by Dickie Hori in white lettering with a gray background reads to the left of the photo: "He would always tell me to try. You never know what’ll happen until you try it.”

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While Japan's National Senbei and Arare Day has pa

While Japan's National Senbei and Arare Day has passed, it's never too late to learn more about one of the islands' favorite crispy and crunchy snack.

In "Love, Senbei," Stacy Lee writes:

There’s no denying the popularity of senbei and kakimochi in Hawai‘i’s local culture. Football fans munched on it during games at Aloha Stadium, others garnered “a look” when breaking open an odoriferous pack on the plane. And, what local hasn’t enjoyed a Hurricane mix at the movie theater? During “small kid time,” many relished the savory snack after school from crack seed stores. For varieties other than the standard shoyu or nori, some trekked to Shirokiya or Ishiharaya. Sadly, both businesses have folded, but Japanese rice cracker snacks remain extremely popular with foodies, kids, Japanophiles or just about anyone. Covered in li hing mui powder, dipped in chocolate or put into cookies instead of chocolate chips, kakimochi is probably the island’s most popular Japanese rice cracker. In Japan however, senbei arguably occupies the rice cracker throne.

Learn more about all things senbei and arare and where to find senbei with unique flavors in our current issue of The Hawai'i Herald, out on stands now. You can also read the story online (up to three reads free!) by going to our link in bio.

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Photo description: A senbei artist brushes an Inohiro miso senbei. (Photo courtesy of Inohiro Seikaho Co., Ltd.)

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The cover of our “Grateful” issue features the

The cover of our “Grateful” issue features the late Grandpa “Yasu” Hori, the former owner of Holy’s Bakery, in his element: wearing a backwards cap, a sweater t-shirt and apron whole waiting on the production line to make pies at the Hawaiian Pie Company (a remake of the “Holy’s Bakery” family business). He was often seen in this exact shot, taken in 2018, as the “filling checker” and helped add butter to the shop’s signature pies. The Hawai‘i Herald is proud to share the Hori family’s story as this year commemorates their 90th anniversary since the family business first opened its doors in the back of their Uncle Ayataro Nanbu’s hotel located in the North Kohala community of Kapa‘au on the Big Island. Read more about the Hori’s family’s continued passion for baking in our cover story, “Generational Pies,” written by Jackie Kojima. New issue out on stands tomorrow! @hawaiianpieco

🎥video description: one to two second video snippets of articles within The Hawai’i Herald November 18, 2022 issue, which includes the cover story description above and the following stories below:

Love, Senbei by Stacy Lee
Culture4Kids! by Carolyn Kubota Morinishi and Marian Kurasaki Kubota
Honoring the Legacy: Warren Nishimoto by Melvin Inamasu and Violet Harada
In Our Community by Wayne Shinbara
The Value of a Specialist by @ethanokura
Voting in Action by @higima
“Child of a Hawaiian Immigrant” continued…
NGN, NGN3, KBFD, and Hawaii Okinawa Today TV Guide

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Last call for our Big Island issue! In our cover

Last call for our Big Island issue!

In our cover story "Super Coach," Alysa Tomasa writes about Gerald Oda, whose grandparents are from Papaikou.

Even those who have never watched a Little League Baseball game know the name “Gerald Oda,” manager of the two-time Little League Baseball World Series Championship team, first in 2018 and then again this past summer. In 2018, Gerald and his team were all over the news, both locally and nationally, gaining the respect and admiration of many for his humble coaching style. And for not just winning the championship, but also earning the Jack Losch Little League Baseball World Series Team Sportsmanship Award alongside their final opponents from Peachtree, Georgia.

Some may remember that the LLBWS was going on as Hurricane Lane headed directly for Hawai‘i. The Peachtree team got together and made a donation toward Hurricane Lane relief efforts in Hawai‘i. Touched by their generosity, the Hawai‘i team adorned the Georgia team with lei and local omiyage candy gifts as they wished their opponents luck prior to the championship game. Gerald’s team won the same sportsmanship award for a second time in 2021, even though they did not come out on top. The fact that Gerald’s team wins (and occasionally loses) with grace and humility while sharing their aloha spirit epitomizes an accurate snapshot of his successful and influential coaching career.

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Photo description: Gerald Oda sits in a dugout, wearing a blue shirt, baseball hat and sunglasses. (Photo by Brandon Miyagi)

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Mahalo, veterans for your service. In honor of Vet

Mahalo, veterans for your service. In honor of Veterans Day, we're sharing a recent veterans story published in The Hawaiʻi Herald. In our May 7 issue Gregg Kakesako shares author Bruce Hendersonʻs new book "Bridge to the Sun," chronicling the history of the Military Intelligence Service in the Pacific and Asia.

On Easter Sunday morning April 1, 1945, Hawai‘i-born Nisei intelligence analyst Takejiro Higa stared across the cobalt sea from the deck of a U.S. troop carrier to the island of Okinawa, which six years earlier he had fled to avoid being drafted into the Japanese Army. Before him on the western side of the island lay the invasion beachhead near the town of Chatan, three miles inland was the town of Shimabuku where Higa had lived for 14 years since age two.

In a new book to be published in September, chronicling the history of the Military Intelligence Service in the Pacific and Asia, Higa felt that Okinawa was more like home than Hawai‘i. Here he had come of age. On the eve of the bloody Pacific battle, he recalled an old Japanese saying: “Mitsugo no tamashi hyaku made” (the spirit of a three-year-old will last a hundred years. What you learn as a child, you will never forget.) Higa was torn by conflicting emotions of his duty as an American soldier who was faced with invading his ancestral home.

Read more about Kakesakoʻs article by going to our link in bio.

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Photo description: Warren Higa (left) and Takejiro Higa, two brothers assigned to the same 10-member MIS team after their sister sought a special waiver from the War Department that prevented brothers from serving in the same unit.

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Our Big Island issue is here! Coach Gerald Oda of

Our Big Island issue is here! Coach Gerald Oda of Hawai‘i’s Little League Baseball World Champions 2022 team and Jack Losch Little League Baseball World Series Team Sportsmanship Award recipient talked story with The Hawai‘i Herald for our newest issue. He reminisced about growing up in Papaikou, playing ball as a child and throughout high school, and the secret behind his (and his brothers’) coaching success. Story by Alysa Tomasa and cover photo by Brandon Miyagi. Issue out on stands tomorrow!

📹 video description: one to two second video snippets of articles within The Hawai'i Herald November 4, 2022 issue, which includes the cover story description above and the following stories below:

Honoring the Legacy: Hiromi Peterson and Naomi Hirano-Omizo by Melvin Inamasu and Violet Harada
Home Sweet Hilo by Byrnes Yamashita
Life’s Simple Pleasures by Harold Murai
Ryan’s Table by @gochisogorumet
“A Question of Loyalty” continued…
The Lull Between the Waves by Kalani M. Fujiwara
Self-Select Gender Marker on Social Security by Jane Burigsay
Embody Chrysanthemum Nobility by Dr. Chad Sato

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Did you know you can always purchase back issues o

Did you know you can always purchase back issues of The Hawai'i Herald? Just call our office at 808-845-2255 and say which issue you'd like to buy. It costs $5 total (includes shipping) or you can come to our office at 2736 Waiwai Loop to buy it in person (costs $3.25).

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Though Halloween also marks the last day of #Pride

Though Halloween also marks the last day of #Pride month here in Hawai'i, may we all continue to carry on our Pride spirit throughout the year!

In our Pride issue of The Hawai'i Herald (still available for purchase at our office!), we shared with you all a republished piece by Nina Nobuko Wallace, the @denshoproject media and outreach manager, called "5 Queer Nikkei Ancestors You Need to Know About."

Scroll through, remember their names, and click on our link in bio to learn more about their story. Here are some excerpts from each of their stories (All artwork by Kiku Hughes):

Jiro Onuma: "a gay dandy bachelor."
By 1932, Onuma was working as a laundry machine presser in the present-day Tenderloin district of San Francisco, where he enjoyed taking studio portraits and casual photos with his Japanese American male friends and lovers.

Miya Yamamoto: "Nothing good happens without all of us doing it together."
Yamamoto spent the first years of her life incarcerated in Poston with her family, eventually resettling in east Los Angeles after the war. She knew at an early age that the gender she’d been assigned at birth didn’t align with her true identity – but she also felt pressure to hide her real gender identity.

Kiyoshi Kuromiya: "Homosexuals have burst their chains and abandoned their closets. We came battle-scarred and angry to topple your sexist, racist, hateful society."
Kuromiya was among the forty-some gay and lesbian picketers who gathered outside Independence Hall on July 4, 1965, for what is widely considered the first organized LGBTQ rights demonstration in the country.

Michiyo Fukaya: "I will not go under; I will not give in."
Her historic speech given at the steps of the Washington Monument in 1979, “Living in Asian America,” was one of the first public statements to broadcast an Asian American lesbian voice to the world.

Tak Yamamoto: "I am not asking for special rights. I am asking for equal rights."
Tak became the first openly gay JACL president when he was appointed as the head of the San Fernando Valley chapter. He was instrumental in pushing the National JACL to pass a resolution supporting same-sex marriage at their 1994 convention.

Election Day is coming up! Did you cast your vote

Election Day is coming up! Did you cast your vote yet? The Hawai'i Herald had the pleasure of asking five non-political questions to some of our candidates running for office this fall, which you can find their answers in our latest issue out on stands now! Available at Marukai, Times Kahala and McCully, JCCH, and most of KTA Superstores.

Here is Seaula Tupa'i's answer when asked if he could tell us something about himself that voters do not know that he'd like to share.

You can also learn more about him and the other candidates by clicking on our link in bio.

Photo by Candace Izumi.

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Election Day is coming up! Did you cast your vote

Election Day is coming up! Did you cast your vote yet? The Hawai'i Herald had the pleasure of asking five non-political questions to some of our candidates running for office this fall, which you can find their answers in our latest issue out on stands now! Available at Marukai, Times Kahala and McCully, JCCH, and most of KTA Superstores.

Here is Sylvia Luke's answer when asked if she could tell us something about herself that voters do not know that she'd like to share.

You can also learn more about him and the other candidates by clicking on our link in bio.

Photo by Candace Izumi.

#hawaiiherald #hawaiinews #vote #govote #hawaiivotes #electionday #politics

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The Hawaii Herald’s name has been connected with several different publications since Hawaii Hochi founder Fred Kinzaburo Makino first came up with it in October 1942. The Herald’s comprehensive and varied coverage chronicles the past achievements, current concerns and future aspirations of its distinguished community.