STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1196

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 63

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on International Affairs and the Arts, to which was referred S.R. No. 63 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO PLAN AND COORDINATE THE CELEBRATION OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF JAPANESE EMIGRANTS TO HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a task force to plan and coordinate the celebration of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the first arrival of Japanese emigrants to Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the first Japanese emigrants to Hawaii, one hundred forty-seven men and six women from Yokohama, arrived at Honolulu harbor aboard the vessel Scioto on June 20, 1868.  Your Committee finds that persons of Japanese ancestry and the Japanese community as a whole have subsequently made significant and distinguished contributions to all facets of the rich multicultural history of the Hawaiian Islands and the United States of America.  Your Committee further finds that June 20, 2018, will mark the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the first arrival of Japanese emigrants to Hawaii and a task force within the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts will help to plan and coordinate the celebration of the anniversary.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on International Affairs and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 63 and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on International Affairs and the Arts,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair