By Allison Schaefers

July 11, 2023 |

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                                Officials from Japan and Hawaii will be gathering for an inaugural summit to reinforce sister city ties and discuss reinvorating tourism from Japan. Above, visitors from Japan take a Segway tour Monday of Kakaako Park.

Officials from Japan and Hawaii will be gathering for an inaugural summit to reinforce sister city ties and discuss reinvorating tourism from Japan. Above, visitors from Japan take a Segway tour Monday of Kakaako Park.

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                Japanese tourists strolled along Royal Hawaiian Avenue in Waikiki in June.

Japanese tourists strolled along Royal Hawaiian Avenue in Waikiki in June.

Hundreds of senior government officials and business and civic leaders from Japan and Hawaii are expected to attend an inaugural summit celebrating the ties between the two countries this month in Waikiki.

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