Barbara Tanabe News Today

Recently, Steve Sue, who is making the documentary “Shaka, the Story of Aloha,” interviewed me about that local thumb-and-pinkie wave we do here. In preparing for it, I decided to take all the things I know about the shaka and put it in a timeline. It helped me gain some perspective on it.

This Saturday marks the 80th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066, triggering the internment of 120,000 citizens of Japanese descent. The Conversation spoke to the author of a new book exploring how a Hawaiʻi group mobilized to protect the local Japanese community.