February 17, 2017

“You Are My Present,” Monday-Friday at 9:20 p.m.; re-airs Monday-Friday at 12:20 p.m. A costume designer, Hyun Soo Kong, loses her memory shortly after her marriage starts. Despite this, she fights and triumphs over various trials and hardships in order to succeed in life. Will she be able to find her own happiness? Starring: Yi....

Copper Copper is a component of antioxidant enzymes and helps counter the effects of active oxygen. When iron levels in the blood are low, the result is anemia. Copper aids the absorption of iron. Therefore,...

PILGRIMAGE BY Karleen Chinen Hawai‘i Hochi Writer Iwao Kosaka Returns to His Wartime "Home" (Reprinted from Oct. 7, 1988) The mountains were Kosaka-san’s only guideposts — Abalone Hill to the northeast, Castle Rock to the southwest. If he found them, Hawaii Hochi writer Iwao Kosaka would have found what had been his wartime home 45....

Evicted During World War II, Former Valley Residents Investigate Possible Redress Claims Mark Santoki (Reprinted from Aug. 2, 1991) Editor’s note: When this story by then-Hawai‘i Herald writer (and later editor) Mark Santoki story was published in 1991, the fate of the Lualualei farmers still hung in the balance. They made up an unusual group....

AS I SEE IT BY Frances Kakugawa A Caucasian woman approached me in Sacramento. “You’re a writer,” she said. “You need to respond to this article in today’s Sacramento Bee. Tell the Sansei and Yonsei to stand up and question this. They are the only remaining voices.” I promised her I would. She was referring to....

There was a time when information about Executive Order 9066 and how it affected the lives of tens of thousands of people hardly existed. That, fortunately, has changed. Today, there are many excellent resources — books, as well as DVDs — that help to tell the story. We have compiled a list of titles worth....

ESTATE PLANNING INSIGHTS By Ethan R. Okura As you probably know, the United States is one of the most litigious countries in the world, with more people suing each other than almost anywhere else in the world. There is one lawyer for every 252 citizens in the U.S., as compared to only one lawyer for....

REAL POSSIBILITIES BY Barbara Kim Stanton

HISTORICAL FICTION By Michael G. Malaghan Chapter 86 While Haru and Rev. Adams were inspecting her camp, Sam stood in Wellington Carter’s mahogany-paneled office. Photographs of his paniolo winning rodeo contests lined the walls. The giant photograph behind Carter’s desk showed Ikua Purdy, Eben “Rawhide Ben” Low and Archie Kaaua sitting on their steeds in....

GENERATION GAP by Jon J. Murakami