Top to bottom: Shaun, Jaycia Shimizu, Grandma Elsie Shimizu, Cheryl Shimizu, Stanford Shimizu, Grandpa Stanley Shimizu, Uncle Eric Kimura, Aunty Iris Kimura. Bottom row: Marie Shimizu, Lucas Shimizu, Sherry Shimizu. (Photo courtesy of Shaun Shimizu)

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...
Genki Balls dried and ready for tossing. (Photo courtesy of The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach)

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...
Taurie Kinoshita at the Palikü Theatre, where she is the artistic director of the Hawai‘i Conservatory of the Performing Arts. (Photos by Brandon Miyagi)

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...
Shelter Lodge in 2023. Kenji Yamada and his crew completed significant renovations in 2017 and 2020. Yamada orders the necessary lumber and supplies and makes sure the building plan is prepared for any renovation project at the Lodge. (Photos courtesy of Jackie Yamada)

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...
From left, Grandma Whitmore (paternal great-grandma) and Grandma carrying baby Sascha.

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...
Seiki Oshiro holds a bronze replica of the Congressional Gold Medal, which was bestowed on members of the Military Intelligence Service, the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team at the White House on Nov. 2, 2011. (Photo by Alex Kormann)

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...
Kabby Hong, 2022 Wisconsin Teacher of the Year, Verona Area High School teacher and member of the AAPI Coalition of Wisconsin, conducts a speech at the July 18, 2022, “teach-in” event outside of Muskego High School. (Photo by Trevor Smith)

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...
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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)....
arial shot of Bruyères, France. (Photo courtesy of a Google screenshot)

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...

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