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Dayton Asato’s Way of Saying Mahalo: Supporting da Community with KC Waffle Dogs

Dayton Asato, 61 grew up in one small apartment in one small lane between Fern and Date Street in…

Lee A. Tonouchi • April 23, 2025

business economics food Hawai'i management Okinawan Americans restaurants small business Uchinanchu United States waffle dogs

Much Mahalos

Her Name Tag Reads “Friend of the Vets”: Stacey Hayashi Shares Stories of da Nisei Veterans

In high school Stacey Hayashi, 49, remembahs reading just one tiny paragraph in her textbook abou…

Lee A. Tonouchi • March 5, 2025

100th Infantry Battalion 442nd Regimental Combat Team artists books comics film directors filmmakers films Go for Broke! (film) Hawai'i library materials picture books publications United States United States Army World War II

Richard “Sonny” Tanabe, the Hawaiian Water Man

As Nikkei, each of us has various topics that interest us. Thus, we have some who have studied abou…

Alberto Teramoto Ohara • Feb. 18, 2025

aquatic sports athletes athletics fishing Hawai'i Hawai'i residents Olympic athletes Olympics sports swimming United States

Much Mahalos

Roy Sakuma and Divine Intervention: Da Kine Story of Hawai‘i’s Legendary ‘Ukulele Mentor

In Hawai‘i his name stay synonymous with da ‘ukulele. At 78 and still going strong, Roy Sakuma over…

Lee A. Tonouchi • Feb. 3, 2025

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Joanne Ninomiya: A Triple Threat—Trailblazer, Producer, Trendsetter

If you talk to anyone who watched Japanese programs that aired on KIKU-TV (from the late 1960s to…

Lois Kajiwara • Jan. 30, 2025

Hawai'i KIKU-TV (TV station) producers United States

Much Mahalos

He get da Eye of da Lion! Jon Itomura stay Perpetuating Okinawan Lion Dance in Hawai‘i

Jon Itomura, 61 stay da Executive Director of da Hawai‘i United Okinawa Association (HUOA) and Co-F…

Lee A. Tonouchi • Jan. 7, 2025

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Much Mahalos

“A Pebble on the Ground”: How It Helped Kirk Kurokawa Become Hawai‘i’s Premiere Portrait Artist

In fall 2023 da portrait of da late Senator Daniel Inouye wuz unveiled in Washington D.C. And who…

Lee A. Tonouchi • Dec. 9, 2024

artists Daniel K. Inouye graphic arts Hawai'i interviews Lee Tonouchi Maui painters painting portraits United States U.S. Senate

Das Using his Noodle! How Bryce Fujimoto wuz da Least Likely for Carry on his Grandfaddah’s Saimin Legacy

In 1969, Bryce Fujimoto’s grandfaddah, da late Franz “Shiro” Matsuo opened up da first Shiro’s Saim…

Lee A. Tonouchi • Nov. 18, 2024

Aiea families Hawai'i Hawaiian food legacies Oahu restaurants United States

Much Mahalos

It All Started with one Question: How Sarah Tamashiro Kuaiwa Came one Museum Curator

At age 31, Sarah Tamashiro Kuaiwa stay da youngest curator at da Bishop Museum, da largest museum…

Lee A. Tonouchi • Oct. 28, 2024

Bishop Museum curators Hawai'i Hawaiians (Polynesian) Honolulu identity museums Oahu Okinawans United States

Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?

The Meaning of Kay

No one knows that I have a Japanese name. But I have always known that “Kay,” my middle name was my…

Vivian Kay Clausing • Oct. 16, 2024

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