May 19, 2017 Columnists

HISTORICAL FICTION By Michael G. Malaghan Chapter 98 As Bishop Imamura drove the Takayama family up Bishop Street toward the Fort Street Hongwanji, they did not notice a thin, bat-eared man strutting up a set of fire stairs on the side of the two-story granite Bishop National Bank building. The Rev. Takie Okumura was the....

BY FRANCES H. KAKUGAWA There’s a piece of unfinished business in my memory that I want to share with the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team veterans on behalf of a stranger in Germany. When I was visited Germany years ago, an old woman looked at me and began to weep. She reached out her....

8•0•8 By Dennis Fujitake

Bishop Ryokan Ara Tendai Mission of Hawaii Tanin to kuraberuno yameru to Jinsei wa gutto raku ni naruyo Life would be easier if you don’t compare yourself to others.