{"id":23627,"date":"2026-05-16T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/23627\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:38:07","slug":"hawaii-and-japan-leaders-to-gather-in-waikiki-for-sister-state-sister-city-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/23627\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii and Japan leaders to gather in Waikiki for Sister State &#038; Sister City Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Governors, mayors, and business and community leaders from across Japan will gather in Waikiki this Thursday to expand long-standing ties with their Hawaii counterparts and shape the future together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Reyna Kaneko and Sal Miwa from the Japan-America Society of Hawaii (JASH) will join HNN\u2019s Sunrise on Sunday to talk about the Hawaii-Japan Sister State &amp; Sister City Summit on May 21 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event is hosted by JASH and the state Department of Business, Economic Development &amp; Tourism (DBEDT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBuilding on the extraordinary success of the inaugural 2023 Summit, the largest Hawaii-Japan international convening in more than two decades, this next chapter promises even greater impact,\u201d Kaneko said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe Summit brings together Hawaii\u2019s Sister States and Cities from Japan to continue strengthen the long term relationships that we have built in Japan. Japan is Hawaii\u2019s most important global partners and this summit creates an opportunity to identify practical areas for collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Breakout sessions focus on six different topics: <\/p>\n<p>Health and WellnessBusiness of Pop CultureHawaii and Japan\u2019s Economic ImpactDisaster Preparedness &amp; ResiliencyGeopolitics and SecuritySports Diplomacy<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There will also be a marketplace that is free for the public to attend, featuring a variety of vendors selling products and promoting travel to Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/jashawaii.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/jashawaii.org\" target=\"_blank\">jashawaii.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Governors, mayors, and business and community leaders from across Japan will gather in Waikiki this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18769,831,2819,2165,18770,8,18772,18771,1599,18767,18768,481,1714,501],"class_list":["post-23627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-allies","tag-diplomacy","tag-economic-development","tag-hawaii","tag-hilton-hawaiian","tag-japan","tag-japan-america-society","tag-japan-summit","tag-market","tag-sister-city","tag-sister-state","tag-tourism","tag-trade","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}