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JCCH FIRST MULTI-DAY VIRTUAL ‘OHANA FESTIVAL This year, The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i presented its first multi-day virtual New Year’s Ohana Festival which was hosted by Nolan Hong. It was held from Friday, Jan....

SEPT. 27-30: NISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL SERVICE

View the Nisei Veterans Memorial Service on‘Ölelo public access Channel 53 on: • Sunday, Sept. 27 at 9:30 a.m. • Monday, Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. • Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 10 p.m. • Wednesday, Sept. 30 at...
MIS veterans following the November 2017 “Proof of Loyalty” premiere screening at the Dole Cannery Theater. Seated, from left: Yoshinobu Oshiro, Kenzo Kanemoto, Akira Otani, Ted Tsukiyama, Coolidge Wakai (not MIS, 100th Infantry Battalion), Kosei Yamane and Joseph Kumasaki. Standing, from left: Tony Koura, Wallace Ohta, Shinye Gima, Herbert Yanamura, Frank Takao, Herbert Matsumoto, Robert Hinazumi. (Photos by Karleen Chinen)

Film Review – PROOF OF LOYALTY

Karleen Chinen Reprint from The Hawai‘i Herald Nov. 14, 2017 Editor’s note: As MIS Veterans Hawai‘i will hold their 80th Anniversary luncheon on Sunday, Aug. 20 at 10 a.m. at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i...

Cover Story – 80 YEARS OF 100TH

Gregg K. Kakesako Special to The Hawai‘i Herald The 80th Anniversary Committee of the 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans organization compiled a list of known survivors here and on the mainland who served in the World War...

Retracing “Task Force Fukuda”

This past May, my wife Judy and I joined three other Hawai‘i couples — Ed and Jan Sakoda, Wayne and Carol Matsunaga, and Alvin and Ellie Shimogaki — on a journey to Italy to...
Centenarian Dr. Seiya Ohata enjoying a cup of coffee at the Wendy’s in Kahului recently. (Photo by Colleen Uechi)

AJA Veteran – “A Life Lived Well”

Dr. Seiya Ohata Has Been a Good Son, a Good Doctor, a Good Veteran Colleen Uechi Special to The Hawai‘i Herald As Seiichi Ohata and his family enjoyed Sunday morning breakfast at their home in the sugar plantation town of Pä‘ia, little did they know that Japanese planes had just decimated the U.S. Navy’s Pacific....

The Education Center — “To Inform and Transform”

Cornerstone. Crowning piece. Heart and soul. For the better part of three decades, that is how many envisioned what is now the Education Center at the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center on Maui. The Education Center opened...
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Memorial Service for Veterans Mobilized to Vietnam and Iraq

WHO/WHAT: The Go For Broke Association will hold a Memorial Service in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1968-1969 mobilization to Vietnam and the 15th anniversary of the 2004-2005 mobilization to Iraq. WHEN/WHERE:...

MAHALO VETERANS!

75th V-J Day Commemoration, Events, Stories and Resources Ida Yoshinaga To celebrate “Victory Over Japan” Day in the Pacific, World War II veteran of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team Terry T. Shima was featured in...

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