August 4, 2017

By Rev. Paul S. Osumi Reprinted with permission INDUCED BY DRUGS The New Yorker carried this cartoon: Two young women, in a small apartment, are trying to relax after returning from their day’s work. One says to...

WHO/WHAT: “Island Breeze,” an all-star trio blending Hawaiian and Japanese instruments in a creatively inspiring and exciting style, will perform in concert for one night only. The trio consists of Jeff Peterson (Hawaiian slack key guitar),...

Wahiawä’s Pineapple Camp Nisei Tell Their Stories Gail Honda Special to The Hawai‘i Herald In the pre-World War II years, Wahiawä’s pineapple camps were scattered around the outskirts of the town proper. In these self-contained communities, the plantation workers and their families lived and worked together and bonded through both hardships and good times. For....

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.

Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce president Wayne Toshimi Ishihara was conferred an imperial decoration from the Government of Japan. With Ishihara’s wife Joy and their two adult children, Trevor and Jaci, and other family and friends looking on, Consul General of Japan Yasushi Misawa pinned The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays,....

Bishop Ryokan Ara Tendai Mission of Hawaii   Kunan no toki chikara ni naru no wa Kane demo naku hito demo naku Jibun no kokoro no Sokojikara desu When you are suffering, it is neither money nor people that could help...

YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY By Jane Yamamoto-Burigsay

GENERATION GAP by Jon J. Murakami

MEDICARE 411 By Greg Dill

Hooge Ryu Hana Nuuzi no Kai Nakasone Dance Academy will celebrate its 61st anniversary with a grand dance program this fall. The Okinawan dance school was started by Lynne Yoshiko Nakasone shortly after she immigrated to Hawai‘i as the young bride of Clarence Tomokazu Nakasone. Over the decades Nakasone-Sensei has passed on the art to....