and people let me go first and hold doors open for me.

The select 80-year-olds honored at the celebration were: David Miyoshi.which is composed of Japanese American veterans and friends.

The character for ju (壽) represents longevity and congratulations.share and enjoy their continued friendships among both old and new friends.These same Buddhahead Breakfast Club veteran members were also recognized and acknowledged for their service to our country in the Nisei Week Parade in August.

An interesting sidelight is that in Japanese culture.The members were then treated to the famous Kings Hawaiian Rainbow Cake.

All the members were feted by the restaurant diners.

has a membership that has grown over the years from just a few who would gather to socialize and reminisce about their young days to 85 today.As her children grew up and started to leave home.

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.