The Hawai’i United Okinawa Association (HUOA) is going to host its annual Legacy Award ceremony on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Coral Ballroom.
This year’s award recipients include Thomas Tarō Higa (比嘉太郎), who was “a 100th Infantry Battalion veteran who conducted a lecture tour between June 1944 and January 1945 under the sponsorship of the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the Department of the U.S. Army, and the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) to combat rumors that Japanese American soldiers were being used as human shields.”
“Thomas Taro Higa.” Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Thomas%20Taro%20Higa/
Related information:
- Karleen C. Chinen, “Discovering My MIS Story,” Hawaii Herald, March 2, 2015, https://www.thehawaiiherald.com/discovering-my-mis-story/.
- Taro Higa, Aru nisei no wadachi [=Memories of a certain Nisei, 1916-1985]. Kaneohe, HI: Higa Pubs, 1988.
Another recipient is Dr. Satoru Izutsu, retired Vice Dean of JABSOM (John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai’i). Dr. Izutsu is “a graduate of Mid-Pacific Institute, University of Hawai‘i, Columbia University, and Case-Western Reserve. Dr. Izutsu is a licensed Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, and Nursing Home Administrator.”
http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/minimedschool/faculty/facultyIzutsu.html
In January 2018, Dr. Izutsu received a medal, “Order of the Rising Sun” from the government of Japan for leading the University of Hawai’i aid to Okinawa.
“Dr. Satoru Izutsu receives ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ from Japan government for leading UH aid to Okinawa,” UH Med Now, January 18, 2018, https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/dr-satoru-izutsu-receives-order-of-the-rising-sun-from-japan-government-for-aid-to-okinawa/.
Related information:
- Maeshiro, M., Izutsu, S., & Connolly, K. (2014). Medical school hotline: A History of the University of Hawai’i Postgraduate Medical Education Program at Okinawa Chubu Hospital, 1966-2012. Hawai’i Journal of Medicine & Public Health: A Journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health, 73(6), 191-194.
- “$700,000 Funds Professorship Honoring Dr. Satoru Izutsu,” UH Foundation News, January 31, 2018, https://www.uhfoundation.org/news/700000-funds-professorship-honoring-dr-satoru-izutsu.
Questions?
- Email: huoalegacy@gmail.com
- Phone: 808-675-5400