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…
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…
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…