Osamu Tezuka, “Father of Anime,” to be honored at film festival
If you are familiar with anime, there's a good chance you know the name Osamu Tezuka. If you aren't, well, you probably have no idea who that is.
For those unfamiliar with the auteur, he...
Kenichi Horie completes his long mission
In March, we told you about Kenichi Horie, a Japanese yachtsman who was setting sail for Japan from Hawaii on a boat powered by ocean waves.
Well, consider the mission complete as of this...
Ramen Girl, Mochi making and The Karate Kid
Film star Jackie Chan may play the role made famous by Pat Morita in the upcoming remake of The Karate Kid.
The Ramen Girl, starring Brittany Murphy, gets ready for its release.
Mochi-making lives on in...
Very scary bullets . . . muahahaha
Boo! Happy Halloween everyone! Hope your day is going well and your evening is a safe one. As always, we give you news from around the globe, but beware, some of the links are...
Aloha Friday bullets
According to Norimitsu Onishi of The New York Times in this extensive article, Japan is taking a hard-hitting approach to expanding waistlines. Millions of people between the age 40 and 74 will have their...
Meet Japan’s newest foreign ambassador: Hello Kitty
It's no secret that Japan's famous Hello Kitty is popular. Well, the world renowned Sanrio product just jumped another notch on the popularity scale. The New York Times' Mike Nizza reports here that Japan's...
Dispatches From Japan – THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN JAPAN
A Personal Journal from November 2019 through April 2020
Kalani M. Fujiwara
Commentary
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
As I boarded my flight to Narita airport at the beginning of November 2019, never in my wildest imagination did...
To the skies
The intriguing story of "Nisei stewardesses" lives on.
In the month following the Tohoku earthquake, Americans have given $246 million to relief and recovery efforts in Japan.
Alabama plans on folding paper cranes for Japan.
Internment photographs...
Australian activists hunt down Japanese whalers
If you haven't heard about it already, Japanese fishermen have defied - or at least circumvented - international law and resumed whaling.
Mark Schliebs, from Australia's Herald Sun, writes that some Australian activists are ready...
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