The Nisei Week Japanese Festival is an excellent opportunity to immerse yourself in the traditions of Japanese culture, right ...

Tomoe Oketani, 96, is a second-generation Japanese American—known as Nikkei Nisei—who was born and raised in Hawaii. Her parents immigrated from Hiroshima Prefecture. Her father worked on a ...

This impacted over 100,000 Japanese Americans who were forced into ... Leonard Oka, president and founder of Maui Sons and Daughters of Nisei Veterans and co-founder of NVMC, said that the grand ...

The Honolulu Advertiser March 21, 1955 In 1955, Pan Am hired an initial class of 20 “Nisei” or second generation Japanese Americans to service flights between San Francisco, Honolulu and Tokyo ...