At two book signings for Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning, I’ve been asked, “How did you get started on your book? I’ve got some great...

There are wonderful things that happen when you publish a book. Not only do you have the gratification of having completed something dear...

Eighty years ago, Tadeo Fuchikami, RCA’s messenger boy #9, sprang onto his motorbike and rode into hell. The date was 7 December 1941,...

Seventy-nine years ago today, my mother, a senior in high school, got on a jitney bus and headed to downtown Honolulu at eight in the...

One of the things I love most about writing history is research. I can lose myself for hours scurrying down rat holes as I hunt for the...

Hording? Shelter-at-home? Government restrictions? Food shortages? Fact vs fake news? “You have a most grave responsibility to the nation...

The Footfalls of History 7 December 1941- Day of the Pearl Harbor Attack Tadao Fuchikami, Messenger Boy #9, roared up to...

At our age, Andy and I vacation not to sit and veg, but to see and learn. We broke up the long flight from PDX to Finland with a...

The Footfalls of History In 1919 when countries were picking up the pieces of the Great War, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D....

We took advantage of our time in Finland which shares its eastern border with Russia, to make an overnight trip to Vyborg, Russia, by...

The Footfalls of History Nina in Tsingtau 1931 Stashed among the piles of paper of my grandfather’s (George Street) notebooks, was the...

The Footfalls of History One of the more intriguing things I learned while researching Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning involved the issue of...

The Footfalls of History When I began writing Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning, I kept coming across the word “Cantonment.” I also had a W-2...

If you don't already know, I wrote a book and self published it through Amazon. It's about a German who spied for the Japanese before the...

The Footfalls of History She was 5 foot tall and 100 pounds on a wet day. And she was a Marine. Not a WAVE or a WAAC or a SPARS or a...

The Footfalls of History It was 1942, and the fleet was in. In Honolulu prostitution was legal, and it was [1]welcomed. A white river of...

The Footfalls of History It was a typical 1939 Honolulu day, sunny at Waikiki and sultry in the highlands when Special Agent-in-Charge...

The Rest of the Story- Takeo Yoshikawa; from playboy spy to poverty Takeo Yoshikawa, code-named Tadashi Morimura, wove his way into the...

The Rest of the Story-Dr. and Mrs. Mori My grandfather made a horrible mistake in 1941. He suspected a prominent Japanese couple of...

The Footfalls of History; Tidbits of history that we found during our research. 7 December 1941~ 1:00 pm – Niihau Island, Territory of...