Harry K. Honda
Harry Honda nació en Los Angles en el año 1919, graduado en la Escuela Maryknoll en el año 1932. Inició su larga trayectoria como periodista en el año 1936 con Rafu Shimpo en Los Angeles y luego en Nichibei Shimbun en San Francisco. Sirivió para la armada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se graduó en ciencias políticas en la Universidad de Loyola en 1950, fue editor de Pacific Citizen y en la publicación semanal de JACL durante 50 años retirándose en el año 2002. Falleció el julio de 2013, a la edad de 93 años.
Ultima actualizacion en julio de 2013
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How Did a Japanese-English Dictionary Help Secure Our Family Ties?
24 de enero de 2014 • Harry K. Honda
The dictionary in question is the New Kenkyusha Japanese-English Dictionary, published in Tokyo in 1931. This was a gift from Masaru Miyauchi, my cousin, in Fukuoka Prefecture on my mother’s side, when I graduated from Maryknoll School as an eighth grader in 1932. The dictionary, its binding scotch-taped around the spine now, remains in good use and standing to this day. During my high school days, Mom kept encouraging me to write letters to my cousin in Nihongo and Masaru-san …
Buried But Not to be Forgotten – Little Tokyo’s Time Capsule
23 de septiembre de 2013 • Harry K. Honda
Almost twenty years ago, on January 15, 1985, a steel container, 4 feet high and 18 inches in diameter, was buried beneath a tree fronting the George and Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theater at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center. The tiny plaque marking the spot where this Little Tokyo Centennial Time Capsule is today is no longer there, having been removed for safekeeping. Some have noticed bronze plates were pulled off the other sites within J-town. Perhaps, as …
Little Tokyo is Born: Charlie Hama’s Restaurant on East First Street
22 de agosto de 2013 • Harry K. Honda
The first Japanese to arrive in 1869 were two servants, T. Kamo and I. Nosaka, of the Kewen family living in El Molino Viejo, the Old Mill, previously owned by Mission San Gabriel in San Marino today. Their names are recorded in the 1870 Census. The late senior curator William Mason of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History believed they were members of the ill-fated Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony near Sacramento. By 1884, there were fewer …
A DVD and Two Books about Pearl Harbor
7 de diciembre de 2011 • Harry K. Honda
ONE AUGUST MORNING, time allowed for me to view Killer Subs at Pearl Harbor, a DVD about the five Japanese mini-submarines, called “tubes” while being produced at Kure Naval Base in Hiroshima. To remain submerged for a long time, air conditioners were installed for the two-man minisubs. Torpedoes were trimmed to fit. Gyrocompass provided direction while undersea. By late November, 1941, minisubs were transported by a mother sub for Hawaii. Their mission was not to fire until after the air attack. …
Convención Conjunta de APN y KNK(Asociación Panamericana Nikkei y Kaigai Nikkeijin Kyokai) en Brasil La identidad Nikkei
23 de noviembre de 2007 • Harry K. Honda
SAN PABLO, Brasil—Casi 500 participantes estuvieron presentes en la Convención Conjunta organizada por la Asociación Panamericana Nikkei (14° COPANI) y la Kaigai Nikkeijin Kyokai (Asociación de los Nikkeis en el Exterior) (48° Convención Anual) realizada entre los días 18 al 21 de julio. Participaron 245 brasileros, y 156 personas provenientes de diferentes países de habla hispana como Perú, Paraguay, México, Argentina, Chile y Bolivia mientras que 66 fueron angloparlantes provenientes de Canadá, EE.UU. y Australia. Por primera vez participaron los …
