Spa Resort Hawaiians
Updated: Oct. 11, 2020 (First posted in June 2012) Spa Resort Hawaiians (スパリゾートハワイアンズ) is a Hawaiian-themed water park and hot spring (onsen) amusement park in the coastal city of Iwaki…
Spa Resort Hawaiians grand re-opening
Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima is a Hawaiian-themed, hot spring and water park that suffered heavy earthquake damage on March 11, 2011. They partially reopened in Oct. 2011. Finally…
Japanese-American museums in Japan
Japanese Americans/Canadians visiting or living in Japan should check out my list of Japanese-American museums in Japan. They show the Japanese immigration during the late 19th century and early 20th…
L&L Hawaiian BBQ in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
L&L Hawaiian BBQ is a restaurant chain based in Hawaii. They specialize in what we call “plate lunches” which typically consists of two scoops of rice, a scoop of macaroni…
Vintage sumo videos
I’ve been digitizing some old videotapes I shot years ago. Here are a few sumo gems.This is Akebono making hand prints at his stable in Tokyo in 1991. This was…
Obama for Obama
How awesome to see the first Hawaii-born US President being sworn in on Jan. 20, 2009. I couldn’t be in Washington, DC for the occasion, so I did the next…
Sapporo Snow Festival highlighted by Hawaiian TV show
New book called “The Companies We Keep 2” by Bob Sigall has been published with my photo of the Iolani Palace snow sculpture at the Sapporo Snow Festival is highlighted…
My hula article in ANA’s inflight mag
I wrote an article about hula in this month’s March 2004 issue of WINGSPAN magazine which is ANA’s inflight magazine. It is the magazine’s main article with 10 pages of…
Yokozuna Akebono retirement ceremony
Akebono Tribute Contents After 13 years in sumo, Akebono retires and holds his retirement ceremony in the Kokugikan sumo arena in Tokyo on September 29, 2001. *This article first published…
Akebono promoted as the first foreign yokozuna
Akebono Tribute Contents Akebono is promoted to yokozuna in January 1993 in record time of five years. *This article first published in 1993, updated in May 2023. Many people (mostly…