“Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides”
WHAT: Tens of thousands of Japanese women married American soldiers after World War II and landed in 1950s America knowing no one and speaking little English. “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese...
Exhibition Of Peace Messages By Children In Okinawa
WHO/WHAT: The Okinawan Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum will present an exhibition of posters, poems and essays of students who participated in a contest concerning peace. The concept of the contest, now in its 25th...
Home Delivery: Ready, Set, Go!
Karleen C. Chinen
Commentary
Next month will mark two years since The Hawai‘i Herald began printing on the spiffy new TKS JETLEADER 1500. After 33 years of printing the Herald on the noisy, but reliable Goss press,...
Neal s. Blaisdell Center Rededicated As War Memorial
Gwen Battad Ishikawa
A plaque dedicating the Neal S. Blaisdell Center as a war memorial — as it was originally intended back in the 1960s when it was built — was rededicated last November with...
“Allegiance” Pushes Back Against U.S. Climate Of Fear
Kyodo News Feature by Justin Maki
NEW YORK – In a breathless sequence that starts with the Pearl Harbor address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Kimura family loses everything. They are removed from a life...