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Doi grew up in Hilo and Kawaihae on the island of Hawai'i and attended Honoka'a High School. [4] He went on to attend the University of Hawaii, where he was president of the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii from December 1944 to June 1945. [5]
Yoshito Takamine (Japanese: 高嶺 良登, [1] June 24, 1924 – October 27, 2015) was an American politician and labor leader in Hawaii.Takamine, who was first elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives in 1958, when the state was still the Territory of Hawaii, served in the state House of Representatives for 12 consecutive terms until his retirement in 1984.
Lani Stemmermann was born and raised in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. [2] She was the child of a notable pathologist and epidemiologist, Dr. Grant Nicholas Stemmermann, and Jean Elizabeth Gammon. [4] [1] Her father later remarried Nell Jane Nelson. [1]
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Hilo Bay is sometimes called "the tsunami capital of the United States". [7] The bay's topography steers tsunamis to Hilo from earthquakes in active areas such as Chile and the Aleutian Islands. [8] The April 1, 1946, tsunami from the 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake killed by between 165 and 173 people in Hilo Bay. [9]
In 2001, the Dover Port Mortuary became the sole port mortuary in the continental U.S. after the mortuary at Travis Air Force Base in California closed. In 2003, the new Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs replaced the 48-year-old facility that had been in use since 1955 to identify and process the remains of over 50,000 service members.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
The Hilo Hawaiian Hotel was designed by Japanese-Hawaiian architect Ernest Hideo Hara and opened in 1975 on Banyan Drive in Hilo. It has undergone several refurbishments since, with the most recent renovations being a full renovation in 1993, and a $6.5 million upgrade in 2014.