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Spa Resort Hawaiians to have new hula, facility

IWAKI, Japan - President Naomi Inoue (L) of Jaban Kosan Co., an operator of Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, is flanked by the new mascot character "Big Sister CoCo" on Dec. 11, 2014. Inoue said the hot spring theme park in northeastern Japan will introduce new hula dancing performances and a big aquarium in 2015 to celebrate the resort's 50th anniversary.

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Experts tout hula dance to prevent dementia

IWAKI, Japan - Emiko Ono, one of the first hula dancers in the 1960s at an amusement park now known as Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, sits on stage in the northeastern Japan city on Nov. 24, 2014, during an event to promote awareness of dementia. The main character in the award-winning 2006 movie "Hula Girls" was modeled after Ono, who now suffers from dementia at age 70.

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Experts tout hula dance to prevent dementia

IWAKI, Japan - Emiko Ono, one of the first hula dancers in the 1960s at an amusement park now known as Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, receives a bouquet from one of her former dance students in the northeastern Japan city on Nov. 24, 2014, during an event to promote awareness of dementia. The main character in the award-winning 2006 movie "Hula Girls" was modeled after Ono, who now suffers from dementia at age 70.

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Taiwan high school students visit Fukushima spa resort

IWAKI, Japan - High school students from Taiwan visit Spa Resort Hawaiians featuring a hula dance show in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on a school trip on Oct. 19, 2014.

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Fukushima 'Hula Girl' dancers celebrate 50yr history

IWAKI, Japan - Alumni of a training school for "Hula Girl" dancers of Spa Resort Hawaiians, a hot spring theme park in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, gather on Sept. 30, 2014, to celebrate the founding of the school in 1965.

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'Hula girls' company gives donation to quake victims

TOKYO, Japan - President Naomi Inoue (2nd from front L) of Joban Kosan Co., an operator of hot spring theme park Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, poses with "hula girls" and others for a photo commemorating the company's donation of revenue from a recent hula performance to the Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Initiatives Foundation at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2014.

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Spa resort hula girls' 50th anniversary show

TOKYO, Japan - The hula girl dancing team of Spa Resort Hawaiians from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, responds to cheers from the audience at a show to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the dance team on July 9, 2014, in Tokyo.

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Spa resort hula girls perform at 50th anniversary show

TOKYO, Japan - The hula girl dancing team of Spa Resort Hawaiians from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, performs during a show to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the dance team on July 9, 2014, in Tokyo.

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Spa resort hula girls' 50th anniversary show

TOKYO, Japan - The hula girl dancing team of Spa Resort Hawaiians from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, performs during a show to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the dance team on July 9, 2014, in Tokyo.

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Spa resort hula girls perform in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the hula girl dancing team of Spa Resort Hawaiians from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, perform during a show to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the hula dance team on July 9, 2014, in Tokyo.

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Comedian completes 9-day marathon across quake-hit area

IWAKI, Japan - Comedian Kampei Hazama (C) finishes his nine-day marathon at Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2012. Hazama ran around 460 kilometers across the three northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima that were hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in an effort to encourage those living there.

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Comedian completes 9-day marathon across quake-hit area

IWAKI, Japan - Comedian Kampei Hazama (C) is seen shortly after finishing his nine-day marathon at Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2012. Hazama ran around 460 kilometers across the three northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima that were hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in an effort to encourage those living there.

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Chinese tourists in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Fukushima Vice Gov. Fumio Murata (C) and Chinese tourists make a toast at Spa Resort Hawaiians, a leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 20, 2012. The tourists were part of the first tour group from the Chinese mainland to visit the prefecture since the March 2011 disaster.

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1st China mainland tour group since disaster visits Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Wang Zhenghua, chairman of budget carrier Spring Airlines, receives a lei after arriving at Spa Resort Hawaiians, a leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 20, 2012, in the first tourist group from China's mainland to visit Japan's Fukushima Prefecture since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Kyoto geisha visit Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - A group of geisha and ''maiko'' apprentice geisha from Kyoto dance at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 27, 2012. The geisha visited the facility to assist in efforts to bring back tourists to the area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and ensuing nuclear disaster.

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Kyoto geisha visit Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls dance group and a party of geisha and ''maiko'' apprentice geisha from Kyoto are pictured at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 27, 2012. The geisha visited the facility to assist in efforts to bring back tourists to the area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and ensuing nuclear disaster.

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Kyoto geisha visit Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - A ''maiko'' apprentice geisha (L front), receives a lei from a member of the Hula Girls dance group at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 27, 2012. A group of geisha and maiko from Kyoto visited the facility to assist in efforts to bring back tourists to the area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and ensuing nuclear disaster.

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Kyoto geisha visit Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls dance group and a party of geisha and ''maiko'' apprentice geisha from Kyoto are pictured at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 27, 2012. The geisha visited the facility to assist in efforts to bring back tourists to the area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and ensuing nuclear disaster.

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Hula Girls on stage

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls, a team of hula dancers at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, perform there on Feb. 8, 2012, when the facility fully reopened 11 months after the March disaster.

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Hula Girls on stage

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls, a team of hula dancers at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, perform there on Feb. 8, 2012, when the facility fully reopened 11 months after the March disaster.

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Hula Girls on stage

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls, a team of hula dancers at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, perform there on Feb. 8, 2012, when the facility fully reopened 11 months after the March disaster.

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Fukushima spa resort fully reopens

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls, a team of hula dancers at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, line up at its entrance to welcome guests on Feb. 8, 2012, when the facility fully reopened 11 months after the March disaster.

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Fukushima spa resort fully reopens

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls, a team of hula dancers at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, line up at its entrance to welcome guests on Feb. 8, 2012, when the facility fully reopened 11 months after the March disaster.

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Hula Girls on stage

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls, a team of hula dancers at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, perform there on Feb. 8, 2012, when the facility fully reopened 11 months after the March disaster.

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Fukushima spa resort fully reopens

IWAKI, Japan - The Hula Girls, a team of hula dancers at the Spa Resort Hawaiians leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, line up at its entrance to welcome guests on Feb. 8, 2012, when the facility fully reopened 11 months after the March disaster.

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Hawaiian-style spa in Fukushima Pref. to fully resume

IWAKI, Japan - Members of a hula dancing team at a Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, and other employees cheer on Jan. 30, 2012, before the full-scale reopening of the Spa Resort Hawaiians complex on Feb. 8, 2012. The facility damaged by the March 2011 earthquake has partially resumed its operation since October 2011.

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Hawaiian-style spa park in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Joban Kosan Co. President Kazuhiko Saito (C) and hula dancers attend a press conference in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2011. Saito said Spa Resort Hawaiians, a Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, will partly reopen in October after suspending business following the massive earthquake in March and another quake in April.

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Hula dancers in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Saito (C), president of Joban Kosan Co., operator of Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, answers reporters' questions at the tourism ministry in Tokyo on May 12, 2011. Saito and five hula dancers from the spa resort asked tourism minister Akihiro Ohata to help restore tourism in the city of Iwaki following the March 11 quake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The spa facility has remained closed since the disaster.

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Hula dancers at disaster shelter

TOKYO, Japan - Hula dancers from Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, perform at a shelter in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, on May 12, 2011, for evacuees from Futaba, a Fukushima Prefecture town hosting the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The troupe from the Spa Resort Hawaiians featured in the 2006 movie ''Hula Girls'' has begun touring shelters across Japan while the facility has remained closed since the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Hula dancers at disaster shelter

TOKYO, Japan - Hula dancers from Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, perform at a shelter in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, on May 12, 2011, for evacuees from Futaba, a Fukushima Prefecture town hosting the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The troupe from the Spa Resort Hawaiians featured in the 2006 movie ''Hula Girls'' has begun touring shelters across Japan while the facility has remained closed since the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Hula dancers at disaster shelter

IWAKI, Japan - Hula dancers from Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, perform at a shelter in Iwaki on May 12, 2011, for evacuees of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The troupe from the Spa Resort Hawaiians featured in the 2006 movie ''Hula Girls'' that day began touring shelters across Japan while the facility has remained closed since the disaster.

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Ehime Maru victims' relatives thank Hawaiians for kindness

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows a copy of letters by relatives of the nine Japanese lost at sea in the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese fisheries training ship, in which they express their gratitude for Hawaiians' kindness and consideration and apologies for any offense they may have caused in their grief. The letter, translated by the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu, will be delivered to the Hawaii governor.

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Hawaiians hand messages to Ehime Maru relatives

HONOLULU, United States - A group of relatives of the nine Japanese who went missing after a submarine rammed their ship receive a sheet bearing messages from about 300 Hawaiian people at a hotel on the island of Oahu on March 10. The messages were written in a traditional Hawaiian ceremony held as a gesture of solace for the relatives. The missing were aboard the Ehime Maru fisheries training ship that was struck by the U.S. submarine Greeneville on Feb. 9.

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Hawaiians hold traditional rites for missing Japanese

HONOLULU, United States - Citizens of Honolulu on March 4 contribute lines for nine Japanese missing in the Feb. 9 sinking of the Ehime Maru off Hawaii by a U.S. submarine. Later they held traditional Hawaiian ceremonies to invoke guardian spirits ''to bring comfort and guidance to those who remain lost at sea until they are reunited with their families.''

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The Hawaiians (1970)

Film Poster Film: The Hawaiians (1973) Director: Tom Gries 17 June 1970 Date: 17 June 1970

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The Hawaiians (1970)

Charlton Heston, Tina Chen & Mako Characters: Whipple 'Whip' Hoxworth,Nyuk Tsin & Mun Ki Film: The Hawaiians (1970) Director: Tom Gries 17 June 1970 Date: 17 June 1970

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The Hawaiians (1970)

John Phillip Law & Virginia Ann Lee Characters: Noel Hoxworth & Mei Li Film: The Hawaiians (1970) Director: Tom Gries 17 June 1970 Date: 17 June 1970

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The Hawaiians (1970)

Geraldine Chaplin & Charlton Heston Characters: Purity Hoxworth & Whipple 'Whip' Hoxworth Film: The Hawaiians (1971) Director: Tom Gries 17 June 1970 Date: 17 June 1970

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The Hawaiians (1970)

Charlton Heston & Tina Chen Characters: Whipple 'Whip' Hoxworth & Nyuk Tsin Film: The Hawaiians (1970) Director: Tom Gries 17 June 1970 Date: 17 June 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS TINA CHEN, JAMES GREGORY, CHARLTON HESTON Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS CHARLTON HESTON, JAMES GREGORY Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS CHARLTON HESTON, GERALDINE CHAPLIN Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS TINA CHEN, MAKO Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS MAKO, TINA CHEN, CHARLTON HESTON Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS TINA CHEN, CHARLTON HESTON Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS TINA CHEN, MAKO Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS JOHN PHILLIP LAW, VIRGINIA ANN LEE Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS CHARLTON HESTON Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS TINA CHEN, CHARLTON HESTON Date: 1970

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THE HAWAIIANS

THE HAWAIIANS [US 1970] aka THE MASTER OF THE ISLANDS TINA CHEN, CHARLTON HESTON, MAKO, GERALDINE CHAPLIN Date: 1970