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>> Part 1Japan CruiseThis past April, my husband and I joined several of our close Hawai&lsqu…

Fuku Yokoyama Tsukiyama • Dec. 23, 2010

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The Remembering Tree III - part 1

The lingering scent of Douglas fir or silvery blue spruce, or groves of pine trees evokes childhood…

Fuku Yokoyama Tsukiyama • Dec. 22, 2010

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The Best All-Seasons' Gift: Joe Finds His Uncle at Kalaupapa

In the middle of the old burial grounds, facing the ocean in the shadows of the tall and forbidding…

Fuku Yokoyama Tsukiyama • Dec. 21, 2010

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Fred Kinzaburo Makino: A Biography—His Contributions to Society through the Hawaii Hochi - Part 4

>> Part 3World War II and Its AftermathWhen Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, hundreds o…

Hawaii Hochi • Dec. 20, 2010

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Journal Entry #12/1843: "Bah! Humbug!! Monku, Monku!!!"

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Dec. 18, 2010

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Temple 7G - Part 3

>> Part 2There were two Buddhist “temples” at blocks 7G and 12G. My mother and I …

Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey • Dec. 17, 2010

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Craig Ishii, Japanese American Citizens League Pacific

Craig Ishii is the Regional Director with the Japanese American Citizens League Pacific Southwest D…

Koji Steven Sakai • Dec. 16, 2010

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WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PEOPLE: Then and Now, The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Project

Why pick up a paint brush, choose a camera lens, struggle over new computer software, or the latest…

Yolantha Harrison-Pace • Dec. 15, 2010

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Exhibition: Hirokazu Kosaka’s interpretation of 12th century scroll

When his fellow classmates in Wakayama, Japan, were engulfed in reading the popular manga of the da…

Shigeharu Higashi • Dec. 14, 2010

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Fred Kinzaburo Makino: A Biography—His Contributions to Society through the Hawaii Hochi - Part 3

Part 2 >>Makino and the Hawai HochiIn August 1938, Ryoka Yano wrote: “The…

Hawaii Hochi • Dec. 13, 2010