This series of essays, in which I have written at a very slow pace about my own experiences with Japanese people and Japanese community in Hawaii, has now reached its 12th installment. I had had a strong desire to visit Hawaii for 20 years since I was an elementary school …
There is a private junior and senior high school called Mid-Pacific Institute on the north side of the University of Hawaii's Manoa campus. It is an elite school in Honolulu, on a par with Punahou and Iolani. It is abbreviated as MPI, so one of the graduates joked that M(id-Pacific …
Last time , I wrote about the Honolulu radio station KZOO in detail. I first learned about it when I was in the first year of junior high school, and since the summer I was 30, I have been going to Hawaii several times a year without fail, and it …
I think it was the winter of 1976, when I was in the fifth grade of elementary school. Kikuchi had a radio cassette player at home, and when I used the walkie-talkie that came with it, I could hear the voice clearly even from across the rice fields. The walkie-talkie …
Read the first part >> So, I would like to introduce some of the English expressions that L corrected, interspersed with anecdotes. It's not interesting to talk about the correction of simple mistakes or grammatical errors, and although I may be a little biased, I think I have pretty much …
In the second installment, " Is dressing fashionable not stylish? ", I touched on the change in words. I took up the topic of how inherited Japanese words have lost their original meaning and changed, and thought about it while imagining the lives of the Issei. I imagined that they …
Read Part 7 (first half) >> The Japanese Mentality I have been going to Hawaii for 20 years, and have lived there a few times during that time, so I have unintentionally participated in the ceremonies of the local community. When my English conversation skills were not sufficient (I think …
This essay is the second half of a 12-part series. The first six parts have focused on the cultural aspects of Japanese people in Hawaii, and have been considered in comparison with Japanese culture and Japanese culture. In particular, following the advice of Ms. M, who is like a guardian …
Let's continue with the elementary school story. Last time (part 5, " Japanese values that may be disappearing - changing Hawaiian culture" ), we touched on the kindness and deep consideration of M-san and L-san. According to them, the virtue of Japanese culture inherited by Japanese people is "to do …
This essay series started with the theme of Japanese society in Hawaii, but sometimes I am faced with the question of whether there is such a thing as a "Japanese society" in Hawaii. It is rather exceptional that ethnic communities like Chinatown exist in a visible form. I sometimes feel …
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