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The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii opened on May 28, 1987 in Moiliili, a majority-Japanese neighborhood in Honolulu. By 1989, the fundraising committee had raised $7.5 million from the Keidanren and other Japanese organizations to buy land and construct a new building to house the organization. Construction of the first phase of the ...
The Japanese in Hawaii (simply Japanese Hawaiians or “ Local Japanese ”, rarely Kepanī) are the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii. At their height in 1920, they constituted 43% of Hawaii's population. [ 2] They now number about 16.7% of the islands' population, according to the 2000 U.S. Census.
Japanese Consulate-General, Honolulu (在ホノルル日本国総領事館, Zai Honoruru Nippon-koku Sōryōjikan) is Japan 's diplomatic facility in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The facility is located at 1742 Nuuanu Avenue. The facility's jurisdiction includes Hawaii and American Samoa. [1]
University of Hawaii art professor Murray Turnbull served as interim director and acting chancellor of the East–West Center through 1961, [19] when anthropologist Alexander Spoehr, the former director (1953–1961) of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, was appointed as the East–West Center's first chancellor, serving for two years before resigning at the end of 1963. [20]
April 26, 2002. Hawaii Shingon Mission or Shingon Shu Hawaii ( Japanese: 真言宗ハワイ別院, Shingonshu Hawai Betsuin, formerly the Shingon Sect Mission of Hawaii) located at 915 Sheridan Street in Honolulu, Hawaii, is one of the most elaborate displays of Japanese Buddhist temple architecture in Hawaiʻi. It was first built in 1915-1918 ...
Kinkaku-ji with Mirror Lake Garden. The Kyoto Gardens of Honolulu Memorial Park is a cemetery located in the eastern half of the Honolulu Memorial Park, 22 Craigside Place, Honolulu, Hawaii. Its three-tiered Sanju Pagoda, the Kinkaku-ji Temple, and Mirror Gardens are fine examples of Japanese traditional-style structures and gardens built ...
La Ronde (atop the Ala Moana Office Building) La Ronde (atop in center of image) La Ronde was a restaurant [1] in Honolulu, [2] Hawaii.Built in 1961 [3] and designed by John Graham, [4] it was the first revolving restaurant in the United States [5] (preceding the "Eye of the Needle" restaurant in Seattle) and the third [6] [7] of its kind (after [8] [9] the Florian Tower and the Cairo Tower ...
North Kona. Big Island. Science. Located at Kona International Airport, space science and artifacts of astronaut Ellison Onizuka. Bailey House Museum. Wailuku. Maui. Multiple. Historic 19th century house museum with Hawaiian history and art, collection of land snails.