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Award winning writer and educator, M. Evelina Galang, runs into a lot of people who don’t realize that Koreans were not the only WWII “comfort women.”…
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73 years after the liberation of Guam, the US government has started to process claims for reparations. A bill signed by President Obama last December…
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On December 8, 1941, fires still burned in the wreckage of the battleships that lay in the mud of Pearl Harbor while crews in small boats continued the…
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75 years ago, Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The strike killed more than 2,300 people and propelled the United States into World…
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When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor seventy five years ago, thirty seven percent of Hawai‘i’s population was ethnically Japanese. Honolulu hummed with Japanese…
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a turning point for Hawai‘i, but it was also the culmination of decades of militarization on O‘ahu. At the same time,…
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A bill to award Filipino World War II veterans with the nation’s highest civilian honor is one step closer to becoming a reality.The Filipino Veterans…
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Hawai‘i lost a part of its living history last month. Paul Phillips passed away at the age of 94. He was the last survivor of a U.S. government project…
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Over the weekend, an executive of Mitsubishi Materials apologized for forcing American prisoners of war to perform slave labor during World War Two. While…
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A Hawai‘i woman should have graduated from McKinley High School in the spring of 1943. But Sarah Okada Sato’s studies were put on hold when she and her…