Book Review – “The Three-Year Swim Club”, Recalling An Era When Anything was Possible
Alan Suemori
Commentary
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
There is a hauntingly telling interlude in Julie Checkoway’s second book, “The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids,” that captures all at once the...
Book Review – “My Life’s Journey” A Veteran’s Memoir Recounts the Story of A...
Gerald Kato
Commentary
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Gerald Kato is an associate professor and chair of the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa’s School of Communications. He is a former newspaper and broadcast journalist who covered government...
Book Review – Home Sweet Kaneohe
Newly Released Book Celebrates the Families and Landmarks of Käne‘ohe
Lorraine Oda
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Memories of the earliest Japanese families who settled in Käne‘ohe in Windward O‘ahu have been preserved for succeeding generations in...
Book Review – “Fred Korematsu Speaks Up”
Newly Released Book Details Korematsu Case for Young Readers
Alan Suemori
Commentary
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
I want to tell you about a small jewel of a book that a friend called to my attention last weekend....
Book Review – An Internment Odyssey
Karleen C. Chinen
Commentary
Sometimes we grow numb to the numbers and forget the individual lives that were affected by Executive Order 9066. And then comes along a new work that jolts us back to that...
Kauai Stories – Kauai Kids in Peace and War
Bill Fernandez
From “Kaua‘i Kids in Peace and War”
Published with Permission
Editor’s note: Author Bill Fernandez was an inquisitive and impressionable young boy growing up on Kaua‘i when Japan launched its aerial attack on Pearl Harbor...
Book Review – “Rainbows In Me: Values of Aloha”
Children’s Workbook Instills Values of Aloha
Kevin Kawamoto
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Stephen Chinen’s workbook, “RAINBOWS in Me: Values of Aloha” could not have been released at a better time. Aimed at elementary school-aged children, the...
Book Review – “Campaign Hawai‘i”
Longtime Democratic Party Strategist Takes Readers Inside Some of Hawai‘i’s Biggest Political Battles
Gerald Kato
Commentary
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
In the folklore of Hawai‘i politics, the unsung workers and volunteers who support the candidates from one...
“Serve The People” – An “Engaging” Look Back At The Making Of Asian America
Jonathan Y. Okamura, Ph.D.
Commentary
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
“Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties,” by Karen L. Ishizuka, Verso Press (New York), 2016
“Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long...
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