“What Is The Legacy Of The Sansei?”
Gail Honda
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Editor’s note: In this piece, and the essays that follow it, you will probably notice that the terms — Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, Gosei — appear capitalized in some...
Architect Extraordinaire Frank Futoshi Arakawa
Marion M. Arakawa
Reprinted with Permission
Editor’s note: The following story on a little-known figure in Hawai‘i’s history, gifted architect and engineer Frank Futoshi Arakawa, is reprinted from “Aloha ‘Äina, Volume II: More Big Island Memories.”...
Onoe Kikunobu Expresses Gratitude For Nea Fellowship
Onoe Kikunobu-Sensei remembers the morning in September when she received the call from Hawai‘i Congressman Mark Takai, informing her that the National Endowment for the Arts had selected her as one of 11 Americans...
Today’s Thought
by Rev. Paul S. Osumi
Reprinted with permission
Be Kind
Ian MacLaren, the Scottish writer said, "Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." An outward appearance is often...
Reiki Intensive Training Weekend
WHO/WHAT: Pam Johnson, co-founder of the Soul Authority School of Intuitive Arts and a Reiki Master teacher, presents a unique reiki training weekend with a spiritual, intuitive focus.
Reiki is a gentle, yet amazingly effective,...
“A Whole New Engineer”
Alan Suemori
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Editor’s note: The arrival of a new year always inspires new outlooks on life and the future of society. Some lose their luster after a few months — others...
Sansei Legacies For Whom?
Jonathan Y. Okamura, Ph.D.
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
I begin with a confession that I am not strictly sansei. I sometimes describe myself as “yonsei on my father’s side,” because my paternal great-grandfather immigrated to Läna‘i...