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Memorial Day 2022

Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts from Hawaii Betsuin troops string lei at the temple and adorn headstones at Punchbowl for Memorial Day 2022. Photos courtesy Irene Nohara and David Atcheson.

Origami crane lei on Shinran Shonin statue for MLK Jr. Day 2021 (2 of 2)

Origami crane lei on Shinran Shonin statue for MLK Jr. Day 2021 (1 of 2)

photo collage - placing origami crane lei on Shinran Shonin statue for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021 (1 of 2)

Ministers’ Appreciation Day 2020

photo collage of BWA members presenting ministers with appreciation gifts and cards

Hongwanji scouts place lei on WWII memorial at Hawaii Betsuin on May 24, 2020

Hongwanji scouts place lei on WWII memorial at Hawaii Betsuin on May 24, 2020

Filmmaker Hiroyuki Matsumoto with Tomoko Izumi

Filmmaker Hiroyuki Matsumoto (Okagesama de) with Tomoko Izumi, author of "The Crystal City Story: One Family’s Experience with the World War II Japanese Internment Camps"

MLK Parade 2020 – crossing over to Waikiki

MLK 2020 - Hongwanji group crossing the Ala Wai under a rainbow

MLK Parade 2020 – Gathering at Magic Island

MLK 2020 - Hongwanji group at Magic Island

MLK Parade 2020 – meeting at Magic Island

MLK 2020 - some of the group at Magic Island

MLK Parade 2020 – getting ready at Magic Island

MLK Parade 2020 – lead group

MLK 2020 - head of the contingent in the parade including Bishop, BWA President Lois Toyama

MLK Parade 2020 – in the parade lineup with signs and cranes

MLK 2020 - group assembles in Magic Island, sign honoring Norman Hirohata-Goto, and origami cranes with background of sky and palm trees