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Why the Cherry Blossom Festival’s Controversial Ancestry Requirement Change Still Matters 20 Years Later
With the crowning of the 67th festival queen and court on Saturday, March 16, we take a look back at 1999, a pivotal year for the historic event.
March 13, 2019
Left: Violet Tokie Niimi was crowned Honolulu’s first Cherry Blossom Festival queen in 1953. Right: Vail Matsumoto became the first non-full-Japanese woman to win the title in 2000. Photos: Courtesy of Cherry Blossom Festival
K
eith Kamisugi didn’t expect the change to lower the Cherry Blossom Festival’s blood-quantum requirement to go over well. After all, since the festival began nearly 50 years ago, only contestants who were full Japanese could compete for the coveted queen title. That all changed when Kamisugi, in his 20s at the time, ran for president of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce, the group that organizes the festival. With that bold platform, he won and began his one-year
9 Ways to Celebrate Galentine’s Day With Your Gal Pals in Honolulu
Because it’s only the best day of the year.
February 12, 2021
On Feb. 13, Leslie Knope (played by Amy Poehler) and her favorite gal pals from the sitcom
Parks and Recreation leave their husbands, boyfriends and partners at home to celebrate one of the best things in life: friendship. Galentine’s Day is all about ladies celebrating ladies. Even though the fictional holiday falls on a Thursday this year, here are 10 ways to spend your much-needed girl’s day or night out (or in) with your ladyfriends. Because we all know girls run the world.