Big Island Community Focus – Bon Dance Returns to Naalehu Hongwanji Mission
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Your Social Security – Why Social Security is Important for Women
YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY By Jane Yamamoto-Burigsay
Community Focus – Urasenke Hawaii Celebrates the “Year of the Rat”
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Issei History – Katsu Goto, Honoring the Legacy of a Hero
Hamakua Jodo Mission Working to Preserve History Jodie Chiemi Ching The Hamakua Jodo Mission, in Pa‘auhau Mauka on Hawai‘i Island, was the first sanctioned Buddhist temple in the state of Hawai‘i. It was built in 1896 at the epicenter of the five sugar plantations on the island, and served the community of Japanese contract laborers.....
From the Mailbag
Dear Editor, Thanks for Dan Nakasone’s story (Jan. 3, 2020, edition) — so nostalgic because I, too, grew up in Wahiawä and worked in the fields during the summer for $1.25 an hour. I was so proud to treat my family to dinner at Three Coins (where Zippy’s is now) with my first paycheck. This....
Community – Lynn Miyahira Thanks “Village” That Raised Her
HUOA’s 2020 President Looks Ahead to a Year of Milestone Anniversaries Lynn Miyahira Published with Permission I am so honored to be here today. So, Governor David Ige, First Lady Dawn Amano Ige, fellow Gajanchu (members of Miyahira’s ancestral village club, Gaza Yonagusuku Doshi Kai), Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Consul General Koichi Ito and Mrs. Ito,....
In Our Community – JCCH Ohana Festival Shines Through Rain and Clouds
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Memories – The Two Families of Isamu Manago
Jodie Chiemi Ching “I have three mothers and three fathers — I feel grateful,” said 91-year-old Isamu Manago who is the second youngest of Kinzo and Osame Manago’s seven children. Kinzo and Osame founded the Manago Hotel in Kona on Hawai‘i Island in 1917, now owned and managed by sansei Dwight Manago and his wife....
Lead Story – From Field to Cup with Gambare Grit
Japanese Immigrants Helped Put Kona’s Coffee Bean on the Map Dan Nakasone Special to The Hawai‘i Herald As I listened to Takeo Nakasone’s story, I was struck by a sense of place and time that began on a coffee farm on the western slope of Hualälai on Hawai‘i Island. It is where Takeo grew up....
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