Bulletin Board – “BUILDING HOUSES, BUILDING STORIES”
WHO/WHAT: To celebrate the bicentennial of The 1821 Mission House — the oldest still-standing house in the state — there will be a special presentation featuring portrayals of Clarissa Lyman Richards and Charles Montague...
Issei Pioneers – CHIYEKO TAKUSHI: HAWAI‘I’S FIRST WOMAN INSURANCE AGENT
How an Issei Okinawan Woman Broke the Glass Ceiling in the 1930s
Lynette Teruya
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
When 7-year-old Ushi Tamagusuku left Okinawa in 1910, who could have known that she would someday become the...
HAWAII OKINAWA TODAY
Channel 53 (Spectrum) and 1049 or 1053 (Hawaiian Telcom)
Subject to change, without notice. [For updated information, call (808) 834-0007.
Hawaii Okinawa Today’s new episodes premiere on the first Saturday of the month and repeat the...
Bulletin Board – SUMMER OF LOVE
WHO/WHAT: Manoa Village Gallery’s “Summer of Love 2021” theme continues this month with the second of three installations, “Naked Beauty.” Special master classes with some of the local artists will be held at 2...
Real Possibilities – HELP PREPARE YOURSELF FOR RETIREMENT
Craig Gima
Hawai‘i Herald Columnist
If you’re like me, it’s fun to daydream about retiring — to think about traveling the world, going to the beach instead of the office, and finally writing a screenplay or...
Featured Story – RYŪKYŪ SHINPŌ’S CLASSICAL RYUKYUAN KONKŪRU
Continuing a Tradition To Preserve the Arts Even in COVID Times
Grant “Masandü” Sadami Murata
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Classical Ryukyuan music or Ryükyü Koten Ongaku was brought to Hawai‘i by Okinawan Issei over 100 years...
Health Information
HAWAI‘I-GROWN MEDICINAL WONDER PLANT: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF UKON (PART 3)
In this book, “Seimei no Hiyaku, Haru Okon no Kiseki (Life’s Secret Medicine — the Miracle of Haru Ukon),” Hisashi Ozaki wrote, “Ukon soaks...
Poetry – “WHY I HATE TEACHERS WHO NEVAH SEEN STAR WARS”
Lee A. Tonouchi
Republished with permission
From “Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son: One
Hawai‘i Okinawan Journal”
Bess Press (2011)
I wear long pants,
long sleeve shirt,
but too late
everybody in school
already seen da shame
I trying for...