Anime has always pushed limits, but these ten classic series crossed many lines that modern audiences might never forgive or ...

The closure of Onizuka Air Force Station in Sunnyvale, for 45 years a secretive player in U.S. military activities in outer space, would be another blow to a region that is still feeling the effects ...

MOILIILI (HawaiiNewsNow) - A year after the Ellison Onizuka Space Center closed its doors in Kona, the country's first Asian-American astronaut's legacy lives on through a new exhibit in Moilili.

Great Teacher Onizuka or GTO for short is collected here in a five disc, 23 episode set from Funimation and TokyoPop. GTO follows the story of Eikichi Onizuka: a former delinquent and gang-banger ...

The 106 year Hawaii Boy Scout tradition called Makahiki has been reinvented and is now named after one of Hawaii’s most famous Eagle Scouts, astronaut Ellison Onizuka. More than 7,300 people attended ...

The first Asian American to launch into space, who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of NASA's exploration goals, has been chosen as the namesake for a commercial cargo vehicle set to deliver ...

Ellison Shoji Onizuka was not only the first Japanese-American astronaut, the first Asian-American and first Buddhist to travel in space -- he was the first Hawaiian too, with Kona coffee to prove it.

Where the intimidating four-story, windowless “Blue Cube” once dealt with the most secretive of top secrets, today sits a college building ready and willing to dispense information freely to attentive ...

Col Ellison S. Onizuka was born on 24 June 1946 in Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, a rural community that hindered none of his ambitious, astronomical dreams. During high school, he was a dedicated member ...

Editor’s note: West Hawaii Today, in conjunction with the Kona Historical Society, is pleased to present readers a weekly feature compiled by the society called “A Guide to Old Kona.” These articles ...

Ellison Onizuka was a local boy who made it to space. Born in the community of Kealakekua in rural Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, Onizuka grew up playing among coffee plants and as a member of the ...