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,...
2016 — Year Of The Monkey
Editor’s note: The artwork on the following pages are the winning entries of the annual nengajö, or New Year’s card, design contest for students taking Japanese language. The statewide contest is sponsored by the...
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...
“But, Why?”
Ann Asakura
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
I hear that constantly from Kiele, my 4-year-old granddaughter. “Why do we have to wait?” “Grandma, why do you have to put on so much makeup?” I hope she...
Kauai Veterans Center
Gwen Battad Ishikawa
Life in the military is rarely glamorous. Military service members put their lives on the line to maintain peace and to defend America’s freedom.
For those lucky enough to return home alive, having...
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.”...
“Wind From Hawai‘i — Nänä I Ke Kumu” In Okinawa
Review by Shoko Yonaha
Translated from the July 1, 2015, Ryukyu Shimpo
Editor’s note: Last June, Cheryl Yoshie Nakasone-Sensei, shihan (master instructor) of Jimpu Kai USA, Kin Ryöshö Ryükyü Geinou Kenkyusho, honored the legacy of her...
Herald Salutes
Dr. Doris (Yamauchi) Ching has been appointed interim chancellor of the University of Hawai‘i – West O‘ahu. Her appointment by UH President David Lassner was confirmed unanimously by the UH Board of Regents at...
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