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2017 Okinawan Festival – Countdown on to the 35th Okinawan Festival!
Okinawan Festival Returning to Kapi‘olani Park Labor Day Weekend After cancelling last year’s Okinawan Festival just days before the signature summer event was set to open, citing safety concerns over...
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Eric Oto has been appointed chef de cuisine of Hoku’s at The Kahala Hotel & Resort. Oto is now responsible for overseeing the culinary direction of the award-winning restaurant under the guidance...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Yokohama Showing for “Hawaii Nikkei Legacy Exhibit”, Next...
A photo exhibit chronicling the history of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Hawai‘i recently opened at the Japanese Overseas Migration Museum in Yokohama, Japan. The exhibit, titled, “The...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Japanese Women’s Society Foundation Installs 2017-18 Officers
Members of the Japanese Women’s Society Foundation and their guests gathered at Waialae Country Club on July 23 for the organization’s annual general membership meeting and installation luncheon....
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Spotlight – Hiroshima Governor Joins East Hawaii Hiroshima Kenjinkai’s 50th...
The East Hawaii Hiroshima Kenjinkai celebrated its 50th anniversary with a dinner attended by special guests from Hiroshima. Standing, from left: Hiroshima Prefecture Assembly Chair Shin Uda, 2017...
View ArticleDialogue – Celebrating “Sharing Uchinanchu Aloha”
Karleen C. Chinen Commentary This annual Okinawan Festival edition is one of our favorites to produce each year. It’s a lot of work, but always fulfilling, because the Okinawan Festival is one of the...
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Lead Story – Rimi Natsukawa to Headline Okinawan Festival
Rimi Natsukawa (bottom right) at an after-concert party with 2016 HUOA officers Tom Yamamoto (top left) and Lynn Miyahira Krupa (top right), Kazufumi Miyazawa (bottom left) of The Boom and Kiyosaku...
View ArticleReview –“I Am Not Your Negro”
Academy Award-Nominated Film is an Insightful Essay on Race Relations in America Alan Suemori Commentary Special to The Hawai‘i Herald In 1979, the great American writer James Baldwin sent a short...
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Legacy of the Sansei – The Sansei Legacy: Never Again!
Cleaning the Manzanar Monument on the first pilgrimage in December 1969. (Photo by Robert A. Nakamura) Karen L. Ishizuka Special to The Hawai‘i Herald Karen L. Ishizuka When pressed, Sansei give lip...
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Dear Frances – Trust in Our Keiki
Kent L. Karosen, Chana Stiefel Frances H. Kakugawa Hawai‘i Herald Columnist Omoiyari . . . Think of others first and good karma will return to you. — Frances H. Kakugawa This column on parenting skills...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – United Japanese Society Installs Sheree Tamura as 2017-2018...
The 2017-2018 officers and directors of the United Japanese Society of Hawaii were installed on June 24 at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i. Two celebratory dances were performed at the start of...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Participants Sought for 2018 Okinawan Youth Festival in Peru
Organizers of the Sixth Worldwide Youth Uchinanchu Festival (“Wakamono Taikai”) are seeking participants for next year’s festival, set for Feb. 6-10, in Lima, Peru. Participants must be between the...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Japanese Language Taught at UH-Manoa Outreach College
The UH Mänoa Outreach College is offering classes in Japanese language for three levels of learning: beginner, intermediate and advanced. The classes (10 classes per season) are held three times a year...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Donations Sought For Fukuoka Typhoon Relief
The Hawai‘i Fukuoka Kenjin Kai has launched a monetary relief drive to aid residents of Fukuoka, Japan, after the prefecture was devastated by flooding, landslides and even loss of lives resulting from...
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Spotlight – Astronaut Ellison Onizuka Collection Finds New Home at JCCH
A model of the Challenger space shuttle and the spacesuit worn by Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise are among the artifacts in the Ellison Onizuka Remembrance. Karleen C. Chinen Beloved Hawai‘i astronaut...
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Lead Story – 100th Battalion Helped to Transform America
“We in this room all understand that if the 100th had failed in what it had to do, the history of our community, the history of our nation and the history of the world would be very different.” — Dr....
View ArticleNGN Programs (contd)
Kiwamu, but then they run into their old childhood friend, Masanosuke. When Kiwamu discovers that Masanosuke has been driven out of his family home, Kiwamu encourages him to join their Shougitai...
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PROGRAMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE “Yumetairiku Hokkaido (Land of Dreams: Hokkaido),” premieres Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 8:30 p.m. In May, Hokkaido became the fifth prefecture to establish a...
View ArticleNGN3 October Movie Schedule (contd)
8:40 a.m. – Man’s Ambition 10:20 a.m. – Yakuza of Ina 11:50 a.m. – High School Superheroine 1:30 p.m. – Pieta in the Toilet 3:30 p.m. – Carmen 1945 5:30 p.m. – Peacock Secrets 6:30 p.m. – Gassoh 8 p.m....
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