Barbara And Lonny Tomono
This is a Kyoto love story, like a romantic movie that makes your heart sigh and your body warm all over. It’s about a woodworker from the Big Island and a fiber artist from...
Haruo Kameoka D.D.S.
Gwen Battad
Vol. 17, No. 4, Feb. 16, 1996
From the outside, Room 9 of the Wahiawa Medical Center looked like any other doctor’s office. But inside was much different. It was small by comparison to...
Picture Brides: A Story Of “Gaman”
Karleen Chinen
Vol. 7, No. 3, Feb. 7, 1986
As Barbara Kawakami listened to the experiences of the Japanese and Okinawan picture brides who came to Hawaii between 1908 and 1924, memories of her own life...
Project Dana, Jolene Kim Gerell Receive Ho‘omenemene Award
The Samaritan Counseling Center Hawaii presented its 2016 Ho‘omenemene Award to Project Dana and the late Jolene Kim Gerell at its awards banquet on May 1 at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i.
The dinner...
Moloka‘i’s Renaissance Man
Alan Suemori
Vol. 15, No. 18, Sept. 23, 1994
In Masashi Otsuka’s dream, he is 14 years old again, rocketing across the uplands of Moloka‘i, his ears filled with the pounding of his heart and the...
Come To My House
Arnold T. Hiura
Vol. 19. No. 1, Jan. 2, 1998
Kapakahi. vs. One-sided, crooked, lopsided, sideways; bent, askew; biased, partial to one side; to show favoritism. Lit., one side.
It was an intensely passionate time. A time...
Hawai‘i And Hiroshima Prefecture Sign Education Cooperation Agreement
Hawai‘i state Department of Education superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi and Hiroshima Prefecture superintendent Kuniaki Shimozaki signed a Statement of Intent on Education Cooperation on May 27 at Washington Place. The ceremony was attended by First...
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