The select 80-year-olds honored at the celebration were: David Miyoshi.

she saw them pursuing further education and realized that her own education had once been interrupted when she was still a child.Her life on the plantation was both joyful and challenging.

in which Toshiro Mifune appeared in his last role as a benshi (narrator for silent films).Barbara by then had started to branch out to related activities that sprung from her academic studies and became a unique cultural and historical resource on sugar plantation history and Japanese immigration to Hawaii.which is part autobiographical and part historic.

and she learned to sew and opened up her own dressmaking shop in Waipahu.Barbara was predeceased by husband Douglas in 2001.

first at Leeward Community College in Waipahu.

relocated her dress-making shop.theres the saying the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

Use donor advised funds and family foundations to your tax advantage to maximize the size of your gifts.I worked with some KA community leaders like James An from KAFLA to get LA City to take Koreatown which used to be split into 4 separate city councils and combine it all into one single district.

like CA legislature passing the $166.KAFLA and AAPI organizations across the country are calling on our community members to vote.