This film tells the story of a group of Japanese Americans and their incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II. It explores the long-term effects of this incarceration and the phenomenon of intergenerational trauma.

This film tells the story of music teacher Harry Urata, and his efforts to record, preserve and perpetuate the musical oral histories of Japanese immigrants who worked in Hawai‘i’s sugarcane fields in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through their canefield songs, or holehole bushi, these women sang about their joys and sorrows of trying to start life in a new world.

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a frightening vulnerability here that has been decades in the making; Hawaiʻi’s reliance on imported food which is estimated at 85 to 90 percent. Native Hawaiians were self-sufficient for centuries. Studies have shown that although a complete shift back to ancient ways is not feasible, the adoption of a sustainability mentality would go a long way. How do we as a community achieve this? What are the first steps and how do we get buy-in to make change?

Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.

In this episode of Home is Here, we take a look at Hawaiian fashion both past and present. We talk to women who are making a mark here and abroad preserving, promoting and pushing homegrown Hawai‘i fashion forward.

Reno Henriques, chef and owner of Fresh Catch, talks about his journey to opening his first restaurant and how he became friends with Food Network’s Guy Fieri. Listen below.

Kim Ryusaki-Marrero of Lotus and Lime explains how her background in judo inspired their show during New York Fashion Week.

Fashion designer Nakeʻu Awai and Marion Jones, founder of The Muʻumuʻu Library, share a dress once owned by Hollywood's first Hawaiian actress, Mamo Clark Rawley.

Follow the gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900.

Mark Yamanaka is a singer, songwriter, multiple Nā Hōkū Hanohano award winner and a car salesman. On this Nā Mele, enjoy Yamanaka’s soothing yet powerful falsetto voice.