Montreal is getting its first-ever ramen food festival next month with 24 participating restaurants. RAMEN RAMEN is set to touch down on October 11 where festivalgoers will be able to taste their way through Montreal with each restaurant introducing a featured ramen dish.
During the 1980s and 1990s, the team from the JACL Honolulu all in their 20s and 30s and mostly volunteers worked to get redress for 3,000 to 4,000 Japanese in Hawaiʻi who were unlawfully evacuated and incarcerated. HPR’s Jayna Omaye spoke with them about their reunion and their experiences as young leaders.
Staff from the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi plan to travel to the National Archives in Washington, D.C. to scan and photograph paper documents from Honoʻuliʻuli Internment Camp. HPR's Jayna Omaye has more.
The notion that the country’s most beautiful places are preserved for everyone to enjoy overlooks a complicated history of imperialism, particularly of Indigenous women. In order to bring this story to the forefront, the National Park Service teamed up with a group of researchers who combed through the archives to find the women at the center of the park service's history.