2018 will be the 150^th year since the first group of  Japanese Sugarcane field workers  officially immigrated to the island of Maui.  At that time Hawaii was a sovereign nation.  But Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown in 1893 and in 1959 Hawaii became the 50^th State of America.  Then again, by the end of 2016 the entire sugarcane production was terminated in Hawaii.  
There are many commemorative events for the history of the relationships between Japan and America  for next year.  As one of the events, documentary films in relation to the Pearl Harbor Attack are to be shown at a museum on Maui.  I was asked to translate the films into English and that took my time away from writing this blog.
Now the requested work is almost done and we can resume our Haiku-Mondo again.