Cover Story – THE LIFE OF AN ASL INTERPRETER
Summer Nakaishi
Shaun Shimizu lives in two worlds. In one world, he’s an American Sign Language interpreter, both personally and now professionally. Shimizu, who grew up as the only Hard of Hearing person in his...
Cover Story – GENKI BALLS!
Summer Nakaishi
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
It’s an early Saturday morning and all is quiet on Kamoku St. except for the vibrant teal blue 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Clubhouse, where members are already hard at...
Cover Story – TAURIE KINOSHITA
Renelaine Pfister
Special to The Hawai’i Herald
Award-winning director, playwright, educator: these all define Taurie Kinoshita. One thing we might not know is that she was also once homeless.
It seems incongruent with a woman accomplished in...
Cover Story – SHELTER LODGE
Jackie Kojima
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Many of us in Hawai‘i grumble about long commutes. But not many can beat Kaua‘i resident Kenji Yamada, who travels 2,700 miles just to get to work.
During the spring...
Cover Story – BEING BLASIAN
Summer Nakaishi
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
In the midst of the global pandemic, Sascha Koki discovered something unexpected — her curls. Sascha, a thirty-something Japanese and Black woman, had been straightening her hair as soon...
Cover Story – EXPOSING AMERICA’S “SECRET WEAPON”
Mahalo to the “Military Intelligence Service Language School Registry” Project
Drusilla Tanaka
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
My high school yearbook is a well-worn treasure. After leafing through it all these years, the binding along its spine...
Cover Story – HISTORY BUFFS
Kristen Nemoto Jay
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Once a month for a year now, members of the Muskego Community Book Club have gathered at the Muskego Public Library, located in Muskego, Wisconsin — a suburb...
COMMUNITY FOCUS
UH CENTER ON AGING AND ‘IOLANI SCHOOL REVITALIZE “CLUB 100”
For most of its existence since it was built in 1952, the unassuming one-story building long known as “Club 100” at 520 Kamoku Street served...
Cover Story – HAPPY 2023!
The Hawai‘i Herald’s Year to Shine
Kristen Nemoto Jay
Commentary
If I had to sum up the past three years in three words for The Hawai‘i Herald, it would be: adapt (2020), learn (2021) and grow (2022)....
Cover Story – ALOHA, FRANCE
Gregg K. Kakesako
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
In October 1944, soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team liberated the French villages of Bruyères, Belmont and Biffontaine just 20 months after the regiment was formed 80...