Dear Members and Friends of JASH, Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s New Year’s Reception! We hope you feel rejuvenated from the uplifting messages from Governor and Mrs. Ige, Mayor Blangiardi, and Consul General Aoki. Attendees also enjoyed fantastic performances from Dragon Beat and Madoka no Kai, and our annual JASH kagamiwari ceremony and sake lesson from sake sommelier Keith Nakaganeku of The Cherry Co., Ltd. We especially enjoyed the interactive networking

Dear Members and Friends of JASH, We extend a big MAHALO to everyone who supported JASH through the recent Aloha for Hawaii Charities fundraising campaign by the Friends of Hawaii Charities and the 2021 Sony Open in Hawaii. It is thanks to your generosity and support that we continue to stay on course and produce new and exciting programs for all our members despite these recent difficult times. Speaking of staying on course, did you catch JASH in the most recent issue of The

Dear Members and Friends of JASH, The Japan-America Society of Hawaii congratulates Mr. Nate Gyotoku for his appointment as the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi (JCCH)’s new President and Executive Director! We are excited for Mr. Gyotoku’s passion for Japan-America initiatives and would like to wish him and the rest of the staff at JCCH all the best in 2021 and beyond. Mr. Nate Gyotoku, from the JCCH Staff Webpage “I am pleased to welcome Nate back to JCCH as president an

Dear Members and Friends of JASH, Welcome to the first JASH Update of 2021! We hope you all had a wonderful, safe, and relaxing winter holiday and fresh new year. We are excited to kickstart the year with a fantastic talk-story author spotlight with clinical psychologist Scott Haas to discuss his latest book Why Be Happy? Please join us on Thursday, January 21, 2021 from 12:00-1:00pm (HST) to learn about how the Japanese concept of ukeireru ‘acceptance’ may be the key to ha

December 10, 2020 L-R: Cherry Blossom Court Advisor, Kim Takata Endo; Queen and Miss Congeniality Jewel Kahiwalani Miyuki Mahoe; Princess Alyssa Mika Nakamoto; First Princess and Miss Popularity Sophia Aiko Teruya; Princess Kelsey Toshie Uyeda; Princess Lauren Elizabeth Holt and JASH President, Reyna Kaneko On December 10, 2020, the Japan-America Society of Hawaii (JASH) hosted the third installment in our “Women Who Lead” talk-story series entitled Serving the Community Thro

November 14, 2020 On November 14, 2020, for the first time, the Japan-America Society of Hawaii (JASH) broadcast its 44th Annual Gala Reimagined & Silent Auction to a worldwide audience. Partnering with Hawaii News Now, the Gala was televised on KHNL and simultaneously live streamed on HawaiiNewsNow.com and our JASH YouTube channel. Our theme for this year was Mirai “Our New Future,” which we thought appropriate as we take on this unpredictable time and reimagine the ways tha