Historical Fiction – “Picture Bride”, A Family Saga
HISTORICAL FICTION By Michael G. Malaghan Chapter 107 February 1924 “Otösan, Coach Williams wants me to try out for the baseball team,” said Takeshi to his father. Haru heard the strain in his voice, even though he tried to sound casually enthusiastic. “He thinks I could be the starting first baseman for McKinley,” Takeshi added.....
Community Focus – Hui Makaala Holds Fundraising Fashion Show
Hui Makaala held its 48th annual Scholarship Fund Luncheon and Fashion Show on July 30 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom. The show featured fashions by three Hawai‘i designers — Allison Izu, Janice Tsujimura and Jeanie Chun. The audience was also treated to a program of cultural entertainment that included Okinawan dances by Hooge....
12th Annual Joint Memorial Service
WHO/WHAT: The Japanese American soldiers who served in World War II as members of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service and 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion will be remembered and...
“Wood | Cut | Print ” Exhibition in Hilo
WHO/WHAT: The Hawaii Japanese Center presents an exhibition of contemporary mokuhanga
(moku = wood and hanga = printing) by some of the Big Island’s finest woodblock print artists — Hiroki
Morinoue, Lonny Tomono and Glenn Yamanoha.
Mokuhanga...
Real Possibilities – Catch Frank Abagnale Before Someone Steals Your Identity
REAL POSSIBILITIES BY Barbara Kim Stanton
Dialogue – A Fond Aloha to the Misawas
DIALOGUE BY Karleen C. Chinen In a few weeks, Hawai‘i will bid aloha to Consul General of Japan Yasushi Misawa and his wife Yoko as they end their two and one-half-year posting in the Islands. From warm and sunny Hawai‘i, Misawa-san will head to Berlin to assume the title of deputy chief of mission with....