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Culture, crafts and community add to life

By Nancy Arcayna

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 24, 2011

~~<p>Sharing the Japanese culture comes naturally to 90-year-old Lillian Yajima. She grew up with a deep sense of gratitude for the first Japanese immigrants who came to Hawaii. &quot;I saw pictures of the shacks that they had to live in. ... The work that they had to do must have been unbearable,&quot; she said.</p>
<p>Her grandparents worked hard so that her parents could attend both English and Japanese high schools, she explained.</p>
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Sharing the Japanese culture comes naturally to 90-year-old Lillian Yajima. She grew up with a deep sense of gratitude for the first Japanese immigrants who came to Hawaii. "I saw pictures of the shacks that they had to live in. ... The work that they had to do must have been unbearable," she said.

Her grandparents worked hard so that her parents could attend both English and Japanese high schools, she explained. Login for more...



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