Military

Dr. Hiroya Sugano spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about a ceremony with an improbable artifact that honors U.S. airmen and Japanese citizens who died during World War II.

RYSE Hawaiʻi receives a $2.5 million donation from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund; Hawaiʻi artist Jodi Endicott turns marine debris into sculptures that highlight the impact of plastic on the environment

Members of an advisory group set up to guide ongoing lease negotiations with the Army feel like they’ve been sidelined by Gov. Josh Green just weeks after he created the group. Green sent a letter to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll proposing to push back the deadline to negotiate military leases of state lands.

Honolulu Board of Water Supply Chief Engineer Ernie Lau gives an update on water conservation and looks back at the impact of the massive fuel spill from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But today only 12 are still alive.

This fall, each state's National Guard received a federal directive to assemble 500 troops for a "quick reaction force" to be deployed to address civil disturbance and crowd control.

Together, authors Dee and Jack Buckingham collected more than 150 archival images for the book “Images of America: World War II Hawaii." The pair spoke to HPR's Maddie Bender about gathering the photographs and Dee's latest book, "Code Name Rascal."

Today, we're revisiting our archives to bring you little-known stories of WWII.

Filmmaker Mikey Inouye and cast members of "Mālama Mākua," Sparky Rodrigues and Lynette Cruz, spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about their new documentary about the decades-long fight to take Mākua Valley back from the Army.

Mālama Mākua's Lynette Cruz and Sparky Rodrigues and filmmaker Mikey Inouye talk about their film that shows the decades-long fight of military leases; Ray Tsuchiyama, realtor and management consultant, talks about whether Japanese travelers are coming back to Hawaiʻi