Class of 2017 – Every Day Lessons from Pahoa School
Class of ’53 Alum Returns to Address 2017 Grads
Frances H. Kakugawa
Published with Permission
Editor’s note: Pähoa School alum and Hawai‘i Herald columnist Frances Kakugawa was invited to deliver the commencement address for her alma mater’s...
Education – Learn More About The Impact of Executive Order 9066
There was a time when information about Executive Order 9066 and how it affected the lives of tens of thousands of people hardly existed. That, fortunately, has changed. Today, there are many excellent resources...
Community – A Whole New World
Soto Mission of Hawaii Hosts Ministers’ Children from Japan
Jodie Chiemi Ching
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Hawai‘i’s Japanese American community has come a long way since 1903 when Soto Zen priests first arrived in the Islands...
Japanese Identity and Language Thrive at Näwahï
William H. “Pila” Wilson, Ph.D.
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Which elementary school on the island of Hawai‘i has the most intensive program in Japanese language? Would you believe it is a Hawaiian language medium school,...
“What Peace Means To Me”
“If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Sixth graders enrolled in the “Blue Track” at Mililani Middle School hosted a peace ceremony on June 20,...
The Education Center — “To Inform and Transform”
Cornerstone. Crowning piece. Heart and soul.
For the better part of three decades, that is how many envisioned what is now the Education Center at the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center on Maui.
The Education Center opened...
Fred Korematsu Day, Magic Valley, and 99 Years
Celebrating Fred Korematsu Day.
Nearly a decade later, Japanese Americans continue to explore the parallels between the racial fallout from the 9/11 attacks and Executive Order 9066.
Remembering the Japanese American experience in Magic Valley before...
Lots of remembering
And . . . it's official.
"Don't forget us" - Tacoma's Nisei WWII veterans.
MFA student Kendra Arimoto has not forgotten about internment and is putting on a theater production on the subject.
Speaking of honoring the...
Food for the soul and peace for the mind
Japanese American war experiences fill out one Amerasian school's curriculum in Okinawa.
Digging for internment history.
Seattle's food options just got a little tastier thanks to a little place called Seafood City.
Strolling through Little Tokyo in...
Marriages, Japantown, and a charter school
Livonia, Mich. is ready to open a Japanese American charter school in September.
Asian Americans are enlisting in the U.S. army at a "remarkable rate."
The Japanese government awards businessman Junki Yoshida with its Foreign Minister’s...
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