Spotlight: NATE GYOTOKU, NEW HEAD OF JCCH
After a little over a half-year without its top leader, the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i will have a new president and executive director, Nate Gyotoku, from Jan. 11, announced the JCCH Board of...
View ArticleSpotlight: WELCOME JAMIE HIRANO
Jodie Chiemi Ching Sixteen-year-old Jamie Hirano is on board as The Hawai‘i Herald’s newest intern. The junior at James B. Castle High School has her target goal clear in sight – attend New York...
View ArticleSpotlight: OMEDETÖ GOZAIMASU JAMIE!
Herald Intern Graduates From Windward Academy’s CTE Program Ida Yoshinaga On the night of Tuesday, April 28, our Hawai‘i Herald intern, high-school junior Jamie Hirano, graduated from the 2021 “Learn...
View ArticleSpotlight: UJSH CULTURE AND ARTS VIDEO
“Kai Ka: Blossoming Culture” Ida Yoshinaga On Thursday, May 6, the United Japanese Society of Hawaii streamed its original video “Kai Ka – Blossoming Culture” on its various social media (for example,...
View ArticleSpotlight: FAREWELL (FOR NOW, HERALD)
Ida Yoshinaga Editor’s note: As of this writing, my staff writer (friend and cheerleader) for the last year and a half, Ida Yoshinaga is already off to Atlanta, Georgia on a new adventure as an...
View ArticleAARP HOSTS “LEADING WITH A CHAMPION MIND”
Olympians Ohno, Yamaguchi and the Shibutanis Discuss What it Takes to Lead With a “Champion” Mind Kristen Nemoto Jay It’s not common to hear the words “fail” or “mistake” in the same sentence as an...
View ArticleSpotlight: WELCOME LEX DURANTE
The Hawai‘i Herald proudly presents our new intern Alexa “Lex” Durante Kristen Nemoto Jay When The Hawai‘i Herald’s first issue of 2022 came out, Alexa Durante — a senior at Kailua High School — was...
View ArticleSpotlight: JCCH TO HONOR HAWAII HOCHI FOUNDER
On Saturday, June 25, the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i will honor Hawaii Hochi, Ltd. and its founder Fred Kinzaburo Makino with the Spirit of JCCH award at the Sharing the Spirit of Aloha gala...
View ArticleSpotlight: Moloka‘i’s “Kiku” Kikukawa leaves White House
Gregg K. Kakesako White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said White House press assistant Michael “Kiku” Kikukawa, Moloka‘i resident and Harvard University graduate, has left the West Wing...
View ArticleSpotlight – SECOND PLAYER SCORE: BRIAN TASHIMA
July 8 marked the 50th anniversary of the television series broadcast “Android Kikaidä,” a Japanese tokusatsu (live action with special effects). In celebration, the rock band Second Player Score...
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