{"id":1027,"date":"2020-11-25T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:52:56","slug":"honolulu-japanese-chamber-of-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/honolulu-japanese-chamber-of-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganbatte!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1028\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1028\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt06.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt06.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt06.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt06.jpg?resize=335,223 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Ishihara and Jason Ito stand with a mikoshi, a portable shrine usually paraded around at festivals for good luck and protection.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>The best is yet to come for the hard-working Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, which is celebrating 120 years of \u201cmembers supporting members.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1900, the bubonic plague had broken out in Chinatown. City officials attempted to strategically burn part of the district to keep the disease under control \u2014 but the flames blazed out of control, leaving 6,000 men, women and children destitute.<\/p>\n<p>Of that 6,000, half were Japanese immigrants \u2014 who appealed to their countrymen to help them. <\/p>\n<p>So, 37 Japanese merchants met one fateful day \u2014 March 12, 1900 \u00ac\u2014 and founded the Honolulu Nippon Shonin Doshikai (Honolulu Japanese Merchants Association). They helped the people however they could, finding them shelter, helping them file claims with the government and more. <\/p>\n<p>Several years later, the group renamed itself the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, and it has continued to thrive ever since. <\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, a year like this one \u2014 HJCC\u2019s 120th anniversary \u2014 would be filled with reminiscences of triumphs past, celebrations of every variety and a look forward at great things to come. Meetings would be held regularly; socials would be, too, and there would\u2019ve been at least one big banquet. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1029\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1029\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-1903-board.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-1903-board.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-1903-board.jpg?resize=450,214 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-1903-board.jpg?resize=768,365 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-1903-board.jpg?resize=335,159 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the 1903 iteration of the chamber gather for a photo. HISTORICAL PHOTOS COURTESY HJCC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But history has a funny way of repeating itself. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started as volunteer chair right in the middle of the pandemic,\u201d laughs Jason Ito, HJCC 2020-21 board chairman. <\/p>\n<p>So, to best serve the group\u2019s 550 members during an unprecedented time, everything had to pivot around the organization\u2019s guiding principle: \u201cmembers supporting members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently we completed a project,\u201d Ito offers as an example. \u201cNine, 10 of us took our entire membership list, and we called our members. \u2018How are you doing? What can we do for you? Is there anything we can do that we\u2019re not providing or not something we would normally do?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That kind of intimacy is a little difficult to achieve at a bustling luncheon \u2014 but they\u2019re perfect for a time when face-to-face meetings are forbidden. <\/p>\n<p>Those talks went hand-in-hand with the re-imagination of said meetings and socials. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1030\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1030\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt10.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt10.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt10.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-lt10.jpg?resize=335,223 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce members Tyler Tokioka, Kristi Inkinen Yanagihara, Kathryn Inkinen,<br \/>Jason Ito and Clayton Hill relax in the HJCC office at Japanese Cultural Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The traditional, 1,200-person Chopsticks &#038; Wine gala, for example, was revamped into a Zoom lecture from Jason Fukeda of Fujioka\u2019s Wine Times, where he discussed different kinds of wine (of which viewers could pick samples up from Fujioka\u2019s Wine Times). The Samurai Classic golf tournament saw members set up their own tee times and then convene for a virtual reception in the evening. <\/p>\n<p>There have also been educational webinars. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got small-business owners to agree to share what it takes to be successful, what they would do differently if they had to start again, general advice on the mentality and the personality you need to be a small business owner,\u201d explains Wayne Ishihara, HJCC president and CEO. <\/p>\n<p>HJCC board director Kristi Inkinen Yanagihara cites a Zoom fatigue training exercise that the Women\u2019s Diversity committee put on, focusing on how to make Zoom more interesting to both yourself and your viewers. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1031\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1031\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-fire.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-fire.jpg?resize=450,352 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-fire.jpg?resize=768,600 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/mw-cover-111820-hjcc-fire.jpg?resize=335,262 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aftermath of the Chinatown fires of 1900. PHOTO COURTESY HJCC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe had a game night,\u201d says Tyler Tokioka, a third-generation member and former board chairman. \u201cWe had maybe 12, 15 members join, and then they did a scavenger hunt via Zoom, we did a trivia contest via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, those are the ones I enjoy more. It affords me and all of us to reconnect from a social aspect with members and friends.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>All this, of course, is in addition to regular email updates about COVID-19 policies from the city and state, fully staffed telephone lines for anyone with inquiries and just about everything else HJCC could think of.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the question might seem to have become: What more is left for HJCC to improve on?<\/p>\n<p>But their answer is swift and unanimous: diversity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chamber is 120 years old, but I would say until about 15 years ago, most of the members were men, quite honestly,\u201d says Kathy Inkinen, former board chairwoman. It wasn\u2019t, she continues, a matter of sexism. There simply weren\u2019t a lot of female business executives or owners around to join an organization like HJCC. <\/p>\n<p>Inkinen, in fact, is only the group\u2019s second-ever chairwoman, having served in 2007-08.<\/p>\n<p>But today, some 27 percent of HJCC members are women.  The aforementioned Women\u2019s Diversity community is focused on recruiting more. <\/p>\n<p>The group also hopes to break the stereotype that one needs to be ethnically Japanese to join. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assumed I wouldn\u2019t be able to do some things because I don\u2019t speak Japanese,\u201d jokes Clayton Hill, HJCC board vice-chairman, admin and secretary. \u201cBut I\u2019ve been in Hawai\u02bbi a long time, I\u2019m not Japanese, but I like what it stood for, the organization of the operation and the caringness of the operation. That\u2019s what got me involved.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>HJCC also is focused on retaining younger members (those who have been with the group for two years or fewer) and on maintaining its overseas partnerships with Japan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Japanese part of it, from my perspective,\u201d adds Inkinen Yanagihara, \u201cis in the values that the membership brings as it relates to their own businesses. We use the word \u2018ganbatte\u2019 \u2014 perseverance, working hard, striving to achieve. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the Japanese sort of ethics and traditions that we bring, the business mentality, if you will. 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