April 17, 2020

“. . . George, Dan and Fuj, you all have been in leadership positions. Yet, so many of our Sansei went into professions that were ‘safe.’ They’re professionals — they became lawyers and doctors and accountants and so forth. If we look at the high education level of Japanese Americans — the Nisei, Sansei and,....

CULTURE 4KIDS! BY CAROLYN KUBOTA MORINISHI AND MARIAN KURASAKI KUBOTA To learn how you can create this issue’s craft or featured activity, please click below to subscribe to our online subscription or complete and submit a form here to subscribe to our print edition.

FRIDAY, MAY 1 Midnight – The Rickshaw Man's Son 1:30 a.m. – Shadow Warriors 3:50 a.m. – The Warrior from Kishu 5:20 a.m. – The Geisha 7:50 a.m. – Swords of Vengeance 10:30 a.m. – Yakuza Official 12:10 p.m. – Yakuza Hooligans 1:40 p.m. – The King and His Vassals 3:20 p.m. – Five Ronin....

FRIDAY, MAY 15 1 a.m. – River Washes Away the Moon 2:30 a.m. – Swords of Vengeance 5:10 a.m. – Yakuza Official 6:50 a.m. – The King and His Vassals 8:30 a.m. – Amanogawa 10:20 a.m. – Five Ronin 11:50 a.m. – The Protector 1:20 p.m. – Yokohama BJ Blues 3:20 p.m. – The Acrobats of....

“Alive,” premieres on Wednesday, May 6 at 7:35 p.m. Known to affect approximately one in two in a lifetime, about a million people are diagnosed with cancer each year. Putting the spotlight on the world of medical oncology, a field which specializes in the treatment of cancer, Drs. Kokoro Onda and Kaoru Kajiyama starts to....

“Amanogawa (Amanogawa),” 2018 drama, 1 hour and 43 minutes. Directed by Shun Konii. Starring Momoko Fukuchi and Takayuki Yanagi. Shiori is a high school girl in Tokyo who is not good at arguing. Her mother, Satomi, is a researcher of artificial intelligence and has little time to spend with Shiori. Education-obsessed, Satomi forces Shiori to....

“Beautiful Strangers,“ premiers on Monday, May 11 at 4 p.m.; Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. Kristine befriends a homeless girl named Leah, only to learn that her real name is Joyce and she was sexually abused by Kristine's father. Eventually the truth comes out. Will their friendship be able to withstand reality?

“Mother of Mine,” Wednesday and Thursday at 10 p.m.; re-airs on Thursday and Friday at 1 p.m. While running a small beef soup restaurant, Sun-Ja Park raised her three daughters Mi-Sun, Mi-Ri and Mi-Hye alone. She still runs the restaurant and her three daughters are all grown up. Sun-Ja's first daughter, Mi-Sun, is married and....

Coronavirus Claims Former Hawai‘i Nurse Who Treated AIDS Patients Karleen Chinen Reprinted from The Hawai‘i Herald, June 6, 1986 Last Tuesday, April 7, was a deadly day in the state of New York. Seven hundred thirty-one people succumbed to the COVID-19 virus. “Behind every one of those numbers is an individual, is a family, is....