68TH CHRYSANTHEMUM FESTIVAL CANCELED, NOW PLANNED FOR 2021
The popular Chrysanthemum Festival has been canceled for the winter. The Maui Sons and Daughters of the Nisei Veterans, which has run the Valley Isle festival annually since 2008, made this announcement on Aug....
30 YEARS OF HAWAI‘I–OKINAWA STUDENT EXCHANGE
Tom Yamamoto
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Thirty years ago, an innovative idea became a reality: to create an exchange program for students to learn firsthand about diverse cultures, fostering their global awareness and sense of...
NGN3 SEPTEMBER MOVIE SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, SEPT. 1
Midnight – Army Intelligence
1:30 a.m. – The Shogun's Guard: Valor
in Turbulence
3:20 a.m. – Swordsong
4:50 a.m. – Oda Nobunaga
6:30 a.m. – Flint Geisha
8:10 a.m. – Snake Princess: Oshima
and Sentaro
9:40 a.m. – Shingo's Challenge...
ALOHA ‘OE, JON SHIROTA
A Maui Son’s Writing Brought Hawai‘i’s Okinawan Experience Into the Light
Dad’s Three Cats
Editor's Note: The Hawai‘i Herald welcomes yonsei Gwen Muranaka to the ‘ohana. Currently senior editor of The Rafu Shimpo, a bilingual Japanese newspaper in Little Tokyo, L.A., Muranaka has worked as staff editor at...
OKINAWAN ROOTS: GROW YOUR FAMILY TREE
Database of Over 50,000 Okinawans Who in the Early 1900s Emigrated to Over 29 Countries
Allen Toma
Reprinted with permission
Editor’s note: This article was published in the Hawaii United Okinawa Association’s “Uchinanchu” newsletter (March/April 2020).
It has...
THE ARTS AS “FIRST-RESPONSE” TO OUR LIFE NOW
Yukie Shiroma Blends Okinawan, Modern and Experimental Dance to Create “Your (Own) Ballet”
TIMELY AND INNOVATIVE MARKETING OF HAWAI‘I PRODUCTS IN JAPAN
Thanks to the combined efforts of small-business accelerator Mana Up, the Hawaii Food Manufacturers Association and Central Pacific Bank, local small businesses can distribute their products in Japan through the global visitor industry’s prestigious...
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