Bulletin Board – NVMC: Chinese Wellness Lifestyle Workshop
WHO/WHAT: The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center presents Dr. Jeffrey Tice, an integrative healthcare provider, who will introduce the history and philosophy behind Chinese medicine. He will also share...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Bamboo Ridge at Home
Around since 1978, the premiere journal of the literatures of Hawaiʻi, Bamboo Ridge, has upgraded itself for the audiovisual-media-friendly era with “Bamboo Ridge at Home”...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Go Back to School in the COVID-19 Economy
Older teens or young adults sitting around your house, twiddling their thumbs or video-gaming non-stop, under the stay-at-home order? Or have you long hoped to pursue higher education but had to put it...
View ArticleSpotlight – Tamura Family Honored for “Long-Term Success”
Ida Yoshinaga With now four generations establishing, staffing and operating Tamura Supermarket in Wai‘anae, the current leadership of the Tamura family empire, headed by 28-year-old president and...
View ArticleCommunity Focus –“Yuntaku Live!” Lights Up Okinawan Musical Arts And...
Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. HST for an hour and sometimes longer, Okinawans and Okinawans at heart can now tune in to the lively, heartfelt and highly informative “Yuntaku Live!” video-streaming broadcast...
View ArticleSpotlight: 46th Annual Historic Preservation Honor Awards
Katherine Itoh The Historic Preservation Honor Awards are the state’s highest recognition for projects, organizations and publications that help in the preservation and restoration of Hawai’i’s...
View ArticleRIMI NATSUKAWA TO LIVESTREAM CONCERT
Late-Night Entertainment for Hawai‘i on Aug. 25 Jodie Chiemi Ching Rimi Natsukawa, whose recording of “Nada Sousou” became the signature tune for the touching Japanese romantic drama of the same name...
View ArticleGOOD LUCK KATHERINE ITOH!
Jodie Chiemi Ching The Herald ‘ohana sends its best wishes and a heartfelt mahalo to Katherine Itoh. Shin-nisei Itoh has been the Herald’s intern for the past few months, polishing her reporting skills...
View ArticleSpotlight: GFBNEC VIRTUAL GALA TO FEATURE LOCAL NISEI VETERANS
“Evening of Aloha” Presents Photo Tribute of Over 30 Living Veterans From Hawai‘i. Janis Tanji Wong GFBNEC Vice President of Development and Strategic Initiatives On Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, from 4 to...
View ArticleSpotlight: 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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