Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii : Programs : Thinking Out Loud : Past Shows

Past Shows

Please click on the show title to listen to past Thinking Out Loud programs. You will be taken to the KZOO Hawaii website. Click on the show's date to download MP3 files of the programs.

2012 Archived Shows

January 16

Days of Remembrance: Remembering Executive Order 9066 in Hawai'i (Guest: Trisha Nakamura and Liann Ebesugawa)

January 9

Rainbow for Japan Kids (Guest: Ed Hawkins and Shige Hone)

January 2

Hawaii Association of International Buddhists (Guest: Pat Masters)

2011 Archived Shows

December 26

JCCH Book Club: Big Happiness: The Life and Death of a Modern Hawaiian Warrior (Guest: Mark Panek)

December 19

Ukulele, Slack Key, and Everything Else (Guest: Benny Uyetake)

December 12 REPLAY

Spreading Compassion; Aloha as a Way of Being (Guest: Keola Beamer)

December 5

The Hawaii Herald (Guest: Karleen Chinen and Joe Udell)

November 28

JCCH Book Club: Murder Leaves Its Mark (Guest: Vicky Kneubuhl)

November 21

The Arts and Why Our Community Needs Them (Guest: Wei Fang and Ben Trevino)

November 14

Japanese Studies at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa (Guest: Robert Huey and Gay Satsuma)

November 7

Family Life in the Public Eye (Guest: Jean and Donn Ariyoshi)

October 31

JCCH Book Club: Theatres in Hawai`i (Guest: Lowell Angell)

October 24

A Sansei's Story: Beyond the Struggle (Guest: Jocelyn Fujii)

October 17

Reading Aloud as a Community (Guest: Lynne Waihee)

October 10

The Theater Scene in Honolulu (Guest: Eden-Lee Murray)

October 3

Rock and Roll and Other Musical Memories (Guest: Tom Moffatt)

September 26

Poetry as Community Theater (Guest: Actors from Honolulu Theatre for Youth)

September 19

Rape Free Zone (Guest: Fawn Koopman and Hadas Zachor)

September 12

MIS Experience in WWII & Korean War (Guest: Ted Tsukiyama, Edgar Hamasu, and Andrew Sato)

September 5

Living as a Gay Family (Guest: David Gere)

August 29

JCCH Book Club: Na Kua`aina Living Hawaiian Culture (Guest: Davianna McGregor)

August 22

Reaching Out to Elderly Through Music (Guest: Fumi Nitta)

August 15

Theater and Youth: Why Our Community Needs It (Guest: Eric Johnson)

August 8

Okinawan Identity (Guest: Peter Doktor)

August 1

Stemming the Brain Drain Through Local Commitment (Guest: Nicole Velasco)

July 25

JCCH Book Club: How Sakura Saved New Year's (Guest: Andrea Hiura and Marissa Machida)

July 18

Building a Community of Readers - Read Aloud America (Guest: Jed Gaines)

July 11

The National Park Service and the Honouliuli Site (Guest: Suzanne Bott)

July 4

Community-Based Repatriation: Whose Culture is it? (Guest: Aaron Fox)

June 27

JCCH Book Club: Long Nights Alone: Love and Sorrow in Ancient Japan (Guest: Fumiko Halloran)

June 20

Loving Brazil (Guest: Sandy Tsukiyama)

June 13

Filming Local Issues (Guest: Stuart Yamane)

June 6

Locals Making it Big (Guest: Henry Kapono)

May 30

Putting Hawai`i's Stories on Stage (Guest: Ed Sakamoto)

May 23

Great Grandfather's Drum (Guest: Kay Fukumoto)

100th Show!!!!

May 16

JCCH Book Club: Lottery (Guest: Patricia Wood)

May 9

Hawaii Book & Music Festival (Guest: Roger Jellinek)

May 2

Eating Disorders - A Community Issue

April 25

JCCH Book Club: One Man's Paradise (Guest: Doug Corleone)

April 18

Poetry and Activism (Guest: Lyz Soto, Travis Thompson, Darron Cambra)

April 11

The Hawaii Independent: Local News Online (Guest: Ikaika Hussey)

April 4

Aging with Grace and Dignity (Guest: Cullen Hayashida)

March 28

JCCH Book Club: Backstage at Bureaucracy (Guest: Richard Pratt)

March 21

Revisiting Waialua (Guest: Wayne Muromoto)

March 14

Activism: Taking the Political as Personal (Guest: Kim Coco Iwamoto)

March 7

The Film Industry in Hawai`i (Guest: Walea Constantinau)

February 28

Japanese American Internment During World War II (Guests: Jane Kurahara and Betsy Young)

February 21

JCCH Book Club: Guardians of the Sea (Guest: John Clark)

February 14

Romance and the Internet (Guest: Web-Based Dating Users)

February 7

A Retrospective of a Japan-Watcher's Views (Guest: Richard Halloran)

January 31

JCCH Book Club: Okage Sama De (Guest: Jane Komeiji)

January 24

Singing and Ethnic Identity (Guest: KZOO Karaoke Winners Marissa Machida and Guy Kokubun)

January 17

Gen's Legacy (Guest: Linda Fujikawa)

January 10

Sustainable Agriculture with a Passion (Guest: David Sumida)

January 3

Why I Like What I Hated About Japan (Guest: Yukio Ozaki)

2010 Archived Shows

December 20

Buddhist Views of Same Sex Relations (Guest: Alan Goto and Blayne Higa)

December 13

Spreading Compassion; Aloha as a Way of Being (Guest: Keola Beamer)

December 6

Education Programs at Pacific Historic Parks (Guest: Paul Heintz)

November 29

JCCH Book Club: The Value of Hawaii (Guest: Daviana MacGregor and Sarah Collins)

November 22

Hiki No: The Nation's First Statewide Student News Network (Guest: Susan Yim)

November 15

World War II and the Nisei Soldier (Guest: Ted Tsukiyama)

November 8

Commitment to Community Activism (Guest: James Koshiba)

November 1

Nichiren Buddhism in Hawai`i (Guest: Bishop Shingyo Imai and Eric Kawatani)

October 25

JCCH Book Club: Anshu: Dark Sorrow (Guest: Juliet Kono)

October 18

Being Hapa Series: Growing Up With a Japanese War-Bride Mother (Guest: Margaret Dilloway)

October 11

Issei Women (Guest: Kelli Nakamura)

October 4

Hui Panala`au: Hawaiian Colonists, American Citizens (Guest: Janet Zisk)

September 27

Japanese Americans, Ukulele, and Local Identity (Guest: Roy Sakuma)

September 20

JCCH Book Club: A Reasonable Person (Guest: Walter Davis)

September 13

Surviving the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb (Guest: Izumi Hirano)

September 6

Local Creativity and the Clothing Industry (Guest: Anne Namba)

August 30

Book Club: The Value of Hawai`i (Guest: Kehau Watson and Craig Howes)

August 23, 2010

The Creative Spirit - Why We Need It (Guest: John Koga, Satoru Abe)

August 16, 2010

Japanese American National Musuem (Guest: Irene Hirano Inouye)

August 9, 2010

Local Ingredients, Local Products (Guest: Don Akiyama)

August 2, 2010

Reflections on 125 Years of Japanese Immigration (Guest: Dennis Ogawa, Kelli Nakamura)

July 26, 2010

Murder Casts a Shadow (Guest: Victoria Kneubuhl)

July 19, 2010

Storytelling, Drama, and Oral Histories (Guest: Nyla Fujii-Babb)

July 12, 2010

The World of a Local Filmmaker (Guest: Edgy Lee)

July 5, 2010

T-shirts, Humor, and Local Identity (Guest: Grant Kagimoto)

June 28, 2010

JCCH Book Club: The Geometry of God (Guest: Uzma Aslam Khan)

June 21, 2010

Shin-Issei and the Place in the J-A Community (Guest: Ken Niimura)

June 14, 2010

Reflections of an Activist, Legislator, and Pastor (Guest: Rev. Bob Nakata)

June 7, 2010

Still Presents Past: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War (Guest: Mari Matsuda)

May 31,2010

JCCH Book Club: Big in Japan: A Ghost Story (Guest: Tom Gammarino)

May 24, 2010

Recalling the 1946 Tsunami in Hawaii: Survival and Education (Guest: Jeanne Branch Johnston)

May 17, 2010

Innovation Based on Tradition in Japanese Performance (Guest: Kenny Endo)

May 10, 2010

Hawai`i Books and Music Festival (Guest: Roger Jellinek)

May 3, 2010

Hibakusha in Japan and Hawai`i (Guest: Darrell Miho)

April 26, 2010

JCCH Book Club: Love and the Incredibly Old Man (Guest: Lee Siegel)

April 19, 2010

WWII Evacuation of J-As from Puuloa (Guest: Helene Minehara)

April 12, 2010

Kawaii Kon Anime Convention (Guest: Chris Macedonio)

April 5, 2010

The Future of Hawaiian Music (Guest: Makana)

March 29, 2010

JCCH Book Club: Kau Kau: Cuisine and Culture in the Hawaiian Islands (Guest: Arnold Hiura)

March 29, 2010

Kau Kau: Cuisine and Culture in the Hawaiian Islands (Guest: Arnold Hiura)

March 22, 2010

Hawaii-born World War II Internee (Guest: Lily Hatanaka)

March 15, 2010

B eing Hapa and Issues of Reconciliation (Guest: Momi Caizmero)

March 8, 2010
The Future of Mainstream and Alternative Newspapers (Guest: Ragnar Carlson)

March 1, 2010
On the Movies (Guest: Bob Green)

February 22, 2010

In the Company of Strangers (Guest: Michelle Cruz Skinner)

February 15, 2010

Japanese American Confinement Sites Project/Honouliuli Internment (Guests: Suzanne Falgout and Alan Rosenfeld)

February 8, 2010

History Day, (Guest: Jane Silva)

February 1, 2010

Parents of Gay Children (Guest: Josephine Chang)

January 25, 2010

JCCH Book Club OH! (A Mystery of Mono no aware) (Guest: Todd Shimoda)

January 18, 2010

Lana`i City Oral History Project (Guests: Dennis Hokama and Dean Del Rosario)

January 11, 2010

Historic Preservation of the North Shore (Guests: Antya Miller and Boyd Ready)

January 4, 2010

Challenges of Ethnic Organizations (Guest: Lenny Yajima Andrew)

2009 Archived Shows

June 22
Bon Dance and its Longevity: Changing Practices in Multicultural Hawai'i (Guest: Ralston Nagata)

June 29
Hawai'i Internment Sites Project (Guest: Brian Niiya)

July 6
Sustainable Agriculture in Hawai'i (Guest: Dean Okimoto)

July 13
Pacific Buddhist Academy (Guest: Pieper Toyama)

July 20
Okinawan Performing Arts (Guest: Norman Kaneshiro & Eric Wada)

July 27
JCCH Book Club featuring Life Behind Barbed Wire by Yasutaro Soga (Guest: Jane Kurahara & Betsy Young)

August 3
Hongwanji 750th Anniversary (Guest: Bishop Thomas Okano)

August 10
Youth Speaks Hawai'i (Guest: Ittai Wong & Jamaica Osorio)

August 17
Oral History (Guest: Warren Nishimoto)

August 24
A Japanese American in the U.S. Senate (Guest: Senator Daniel Inouye)

August 31
JCCH Book Club featuring Mililani Mauka by Chris McKinney (Guest: Chris McKinney)

September 7
Arts, Culture and Tourism in Honolulu (Guest: Mayor Mufi Hannemann)

September 14
Public Education in Hawai'i (Guests: Ann Bayer & Lois Yamauchi)

September 21
Documentary film on Forgotten Temples (Guest: Lorraine Minatoishi Palumbo)

September 28
JCCH Book Club featuring The Island Edge of America by Tom Coffman (Guest: Tom Coffman)

October 5
Aging Gracefully (Guest: Blossom Hoffman)

October 12
Koji Ariyoshi and the Invention of Local Identity (Guests: Craig Howes & Vicky Kneubuhl)

October 19
Being Hapa - Part 1 (Guests: Ty & Mike Tengan)

October 26
JCCH Book Club featuring Obake Files by Glen Grant and Morgan's Corner by Lopaka Kapanui (Guest: Lopaka Kapanui)

November 2
Aloha Medical Mission (Guests: Ann Miller & Dr. Brad Wong)

November 9
Ethnic Media: Can it Survive? (Guests: David Furuya, Joanne Ninomiya, and Paul Yempuku)

November 16
The Mysterious Mary Foster (Guest: Pat Masters)

November 23
808 Urban: Youth Identity and Art (Guests: John Hina & Jordan Arenas)

November 30, 2009

JCCH Book Club featuring California Hotel and Casino by Dennis Ogawa (Guest: Herbert Tanaka)

December 7, 2009

Remember Pearl Harbor? (Guests: Geoff White & Everett Hyland)

December 14, 2009

Identity and Performance (Guests: Taiko Center of the Pacific Youth Group)

December 21, 2009

Hawai`i Forgiveness Project (Guest: Roger Epstein)

December 28, 2009

JCCH Book Club featuring Island Plate Island Entertainment II by Wanda Adams (Guest: Wanda Adams)