Monthly Archives: February 2009

New issue in stores now!

Posted on February 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

The new issue of the Hawaii Herald is on newsstands now! Be sure to pick it up and read our special spring issue . . .

Learn about Wahiawa’s best kept secret – their sakura trees . . .

And the honor given to former Honouliuli internees . . .

Plus, columns by Cedric Yamanaka, Shari Yuki Enay, and much, much more!

The Herald is available at Borders Books and Music in Kaneohe, Waikele Center and Victoria Ward Center; Best Sellers in downtown Honolulu; Shirokiya; the Kahala, Kaimuki, McCully, Waimalu and Waipahu Times Super Markets; and the Hawaii Hochi Office building located at:

917 Kokea St.
Honolulu, HI 96817

We can also be reached by phone at 808-845-2255.

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Remembering Internment . . .

Posted on February 19, 2009 | Leave a comment

67 years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants. Let’s take a moment today to remember the injustices of that era so that they may never happen again.

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Several newspapers around the country are also remembering the interment experience:

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Stubborn Twig and Billy Bat

Posted on February 12, 2009 | Leave a comment

A photograph exhibit featuring the works of Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange at the University of Utah centers on Japanese American internment.

Japanese American triplets are part of a renewed focus on the fertility industry.

An afternoon with Lauren Kessler, the author of Stubborn Twig, a book about a Japanese American family in Oregon.

Manga legend Naoki Urasawa debuts his new work, Billy Bat, a period series about a Japanese American private eye who goes back to his ancestral homeland.