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Chinyei Kinjo
Chinyei Kinjo (金城珍栄)(December 21, 1899 March 3, 1987) was an Okinawan journalist. He ran the '' Yoen jiho'' for most of its 49-year history. Early life Kinjo was born in Naha, Okinawa on December 21, 1899. He was the son of Chinzen Kinjo, one of the first Okinawan immigrants to Hawaii. Kinjo joined his father in Hawaii much later in life, after graduating from Naha City Business School in 1918. He worked in sugar plantations on Oahu for a few months before enrolling in Iolani School. In 1926, Seikan Higa asked Kinjo to manage a Japanese-language newspaper on Kauai called the ''Yoen jiho''. The newspaper had a lot of unpaid bills at the time, so Kinjo went to plantation camps all over Kauai to solicit subscriptions from laborers. He became the owner and president of the newspaper in 1928. Kinjo was also practiced karate. In 1934, he invited Chojun Miyagi to visit Hawaii and demonstrate karate. Miyagi's visit lasted eight months. Internment In 1942, a few months a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōen Jihō
''Yōen jihō'', also known as ''Koloa Times'', was a Japanese language newspaper published from Koloa, Kauai County, Hawaii. The first issue of the publication was issued on February 2, 1921. It was launched by the Kaua'i branch of the Federation of Japanese Labor in the aftermath of the 1920 sugar strike. During its initial phase, the newspaper was published twice weekly. ''Yōen jihō'' was the most radical of the ethnic newspapers in the area at the time. It carried several articles on Marxism and Socialism. Ichiro Izuka served as the editor of the newspaper. ''Yōen jihō'' gained a circulation of 1,000. The newspaper was published by Yoen Jiho Sha Ltd. In 1923 Reverend Seikan Higa, a Methodist pastor, shifted his residence to Koloa. He took over the management of ''Yōen jihō'' in 1925 or 1926. Higa then sold it to Chinyei Kinjo Chinyei Kinjo (金城珍栄)(December 21, 1899 March 3, 1987) was an Okinawan journalist. He ran the '' Yoen jiho'' for most of its 49-year hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe ( ; , Spanish for 'Holy Faith'; tew, Oghá P'o'oge, Tewa for 'white shell water place'; tiw, Hulp'ó'ona, label= Northern Tiwa; nv, Yootó, Navajo for 'bead + water place') is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. The name “Santa Fe” means 'Holy Faith' in Spanish, and the city's full name as founded remains ('The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi'). With a population of 87,505 at the 2020 census, it is the fourth-largest city in New Mexico. It is also the county seat of Santa Fe County. Its metropolitan area is part of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,162,523 in 2020. Human settlement dates back thousands of years in the region, the placita was founded in 1610 as the capital of . It replaced the previous capital, , near modern Española, at San Gabriel de Yungue-Ouinge, which makes it the oldest state capital in the United States. It is also at the highest altitude of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese-American Internees
are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry. According to the 2010 census, the largest Japanese American communities were found in California with 272,528, Hawaii with 185,502, New York with 37,780, Washington with 35,008, Illinois with 17,542 and Ohio with 16,995. Southern California has the largest Japanese American population in North America and the city of Gardena holds the densest Japanese American population in the 48 contiguous states. History Immigration People from Japan began migrating to the US in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the Meiji Restoration in 1868. These early Issei immigrants came primarily from small towns and rural areas in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Emigrants To The United States
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Japanese Journalists
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People From Naha
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Deaths
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 rect 400 0 600 200 King's Cross fire rect 0 200 300 400 Tear down this wall! rect 300 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Births
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – ** Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuo Toyama
was an Okinawan journalist. Biography Toyama was born on Ikei Island in Okinawa, Japan on April 8, 1883. He was recruited in the Japanese military in 1904 and served in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese war. He was discharged after he suffered a gunshot wound. After leaving the military, he decided to immigrate to Hawaii in 1906. He worked on a plantation in Kekaha, Kauai. He worked several side jobs before moving to the Big Island and working as a reporter for the ''Hilo Shimbun'' in 1909. He began publishing a magazine called ''Jitsugyo no Hawai'' in 1912. He used this publication to stand up for planation workers and improve the lot of Okinawan immigrants, and thus enjoyed a healthy readership. He then published a directory of Okinawan organizations in 1919 that also proved to be successful. In 1929, Toyama and his publications became entangled in an event later called the "Nakaima Incident". An election was being held in Okinawa that featured far-left and far-right cand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The Sacred Treasure
The is a Japanese order, established on 4 January 1888 by Emperor Meiji as the Order of Meiji. Originally awarded in eight classes (from 8th to 1st, in ascending order of importance), since 2003 it has been awarded in six classes, the lowest two medals being abolished that year. Originally a male-only decoration, the order has been made available to women since 1919. The Order of the Sacred Treasure, which had 8 ranks until 2003, was awarded as a slightly lower rank than the Order of the Rising Sun for men and the Order of the Precious Crown for women. For example, the 1st class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure has been treated as between the 1st class and the 2nd class of the Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Precious Crown, and the 2nd class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure has been treated as between the 2nd class and the 3rd class of the Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Precious Crown. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Pacific Bank
Central Pacific Bank is an American regional commercial bank headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was founded by Koichi Iida, a Honolulu business leader, with assistance from Sumitomo Bank in Japan. Mr. Iida was President from 1954 to 1960. It is the main subsidiary of Central Pacific Financial Corporation (). The bank is the fourth-largest financial institution in Hawaii, with $6.6 billion in assets as of December 31, 2020. Central Pacific Financial Corporation Central Pacific Financial Corporation is a bank holding company A bank holding company is a company that controls one or more banks, but does not necessarily engage in banking itself. The compound bancorp (''banc''/''bank'' + '' corp ration') is often used to refer to these companies as well. United States ... based in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose primary subsidiary is Central Pacific Bank. In 2004, Central Pacific Financial Corporation acquired CB Bancshares, Inc. CB Bancshares' main subsidiary was City Bank of Honol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Honolulu
Downtown Honolulu is the current historic, economic, and governmental center of Honolulu, the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is bounded by Nuuanu Stream to the west, Ward Avenue to the east, Vineyard Boulevard to the north, and Honolulu Harbor to the south. Both modern and historic buildings and complexes are located in the area, with many of the latter declared National Historic Landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places. Districts Downtown Honolulu can be subdivided into four neighborhoods, each with its own central focus and mix of buildings. These areas are the Capitol District, the Central Business District, Chinatown, and the Waterfront. Capitol District The Capitol District, or Civic Center, contains most of the federal, state, and city governmental buildings and is centered on the Hawaii State Capitol, Iolani Palace, and Honolulu Hale ( city hall). It is roughly bounded by Richards Street on the west, Ward Avenue on the east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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