University of Hawaii Press

07/09/2025

Since its first edition in 1966, PLACE NAMES OF HAWAII remains in print as a paperback of the 1974 second edition. (The paperback of the second edition released in 1976.) https://buff.ly/YpJDLBo

"Place Names of Hawaiʻi" provides an introductory grasp of the islands' culture and mythology.

07/08/2025

Congratulations to our esteemed publishing partner, the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, on their 50th anniversary!

We are honored to collaborate on the Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture series, which continues to promote deep, cross-cultural understanding of spiritual traditions across Asia.

To celebrate this milestone, Nanzan is hosting a special lecture series. Up next:

"Christianity’s Lessons for Zen Practice in the West"
Speaker: Thomas Kirchner
Date: July 10, 2025
Time: 17:00–19:00 JST
Location: Room 217, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture

Join us in honoring fifty years of impactful scholarship and meaningful dialogue.

Explore our publishing partnership: https://go.hawaii.edu/Gkr

06/27/2025

We're at in Oklahoma City! If you are too, browse our exhibit table and talk with acquisitions editor Emma Ching about your book project and/or to learn more about our titles and publishing program. Mahalo to Joyce Pualani Warren, coeditor of AN OCEAN OF WONDER: The Fantastic in the Pacific, for stopping by!

Even if you're not attending, save 30% off select titles with code NAISA25 on web orders from July 1 till September 30.

06/11/2025

Final days to apply or nominate a new editor for Pacific Science. Due June 15, 2025.

06/09/2025

It’s that time of year again—our warehouses will be closed for annual inventory starting later this week through June 30, 2025.

Please place any orders by Wednesday, June 11, before midnight HST. While we won’t be processing shipments during this time, you can still browse our website and save items to your wishlist.

Online ordering will resume on July 1.

Mahalo for your patience and continued support!

05/22/2025

Thank you to Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and reviewer Elsa Mathews for the in-depth review of HAUNTED MODERNITIES! For more on the book: https://buff.ly/U7vqhSa

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Elsa Mathews reviews Anru Lee's 𝐻𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠: 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡-𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 (University of Hawaii Press, 2023):

/ Anru Lee first learned of the 25 Maiden Ladies’ Tomb upon her arrival at the Department of Sociology at Sun Yat-sen University as a visiting scholar in 2008. Intrigued, she embarked on an inquiry into the socio-cultural and political dynamics surrounding the remembrance and positioning of these deceased young women within a deeply patrilineal Taiwanese society. In doing so, she assiduously examines the processes of memory-making and placemaking, delving into new realms within feminist studies, hauntology, and urban studies.

The book employs a rich array of anecdotes and interviews to animate the lived experiences and struggles of those connected to the narrative. It is not merely a chronicle of how the 25 Maiden Ladies’ Tomb came to be reimagined as the Memorial Park for Women Labourers—it is also a probing enquiry into the evolution of Kaohsiung’s economy, the role of young female workers, the emergence of the women’s movement at both national and local levels, the city’s economic decline in the twenty-first century, and municipal efforts toward urban modernisation. /

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://chajournal.blog/2025/05/13/modernities/
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05/22/2025

If you can't attend the talk, Gail Okawa's book can be ordered: https://go.hawaii.edu/p3V

Commemorate, reflect, and engage this Memorial Day Weekend with Dr. Gail Okawa, who will be giving a presentation in the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Theater and signing her book at the Pearl Harbor Bookstore following her presentation.

MOUNTAINS OF MEMORY, DEPTHS OF GRATITUDE: Stories of Hawai`i’s Japanese Internee Fathers and Their American Military Sons in "Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile"

Dr. Gail Okawa, a granddaughter of a Japanese Christian minister from Hawai`i imprisoned in US internment camps during WWII, will introduce her 18-year book project Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawai`i’s Japanese in World War II in an illustrated talk. Her presentation will share her journey of discovery—learning what happened to her maternal grandfather Rev. Tamasaku Watanabe, who was arrested immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack and, along with hundreds of Hawai`i Japanese, exiled from the Hawaiian Islands to prison camps run by the US Justice and War Departments in Louisiana, Montana, and New Mexico, with others imprisoned at the Honouliuli Internment Camp on O`ahu.

Dr. Okawa learned, too, and will share stories of imprisoned fathers who had sons in the highly decorated Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate), 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Military Intelligence Service. Some visited their interned fathers and fought and, in some cases, died in Italy in the Rome-Arno campaign and in the breach of the Gothic Line, in France during the rescue of the Lost Battalion, and in New Guinea in the Pacific.

Inspired to travel in 2019 to sites in Europe where the Nisei sons fought, she learned that the Italians and French in liberated villages have not forgot the sacrifices of the Nisei decades later, and she will interweave wartime stories with present-day remembrances.



EVENT DETAILS:
Saturday, May 24, 2025
12:00-1:30 PM
Pearl Harbor National Memorial Theater
1 Arizona Memorial Place
Honolulu, HI 96818

This event is made possible thanks to our partner Pacific Historic Parks
Historic photo courtesy of

05/15/2025

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