Sharleen Naomi Nakamoto Levine
@snnlSharleen Naomi Nakamoto Levine lives in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, with her husband and two daughters. She is an instructor in American Studies, History, and Women's Studies, at Honolulu Community College. As an historian, she not only researches and writes about her family history, but the related history of Japanese and Filipino women on Hawai‘i's sugar plantations in the early to mid-twentieth century.
Updated October 2011
Stories from This Author
A Jewpanese Name for the Past, Present, and Future
Oct. 7, 2014 • Sharleen Naomi Nakamoto Levine
Can parents choose a name that is a reflection of its times, as well as the past, and even the future? I was born on March 19, 1970, at Queen’s Hospital in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, the same hospital where my mother had attended a School of Nursing to become a registered nurse in 1962. I was the second of three girls to Jack and June Nakamoto. My birth certificate lists my full name as Sharleen Naomi Nakamoto. I have always liked …
