Paul Murakami, who visits his 85-year-old aunt at an assisted-living facility in the district, is helping make sure that Higo lives on even though the store has not.

Judge Paul Murakami presided over William and Amy Hovanic’s Feb. 8 wedding at Hawaii Civil Marriage on Halekauwila Street in Kakaako. Stuart and Silvia Melendy share their first kiss as husband ...

Paul Murakami said they likely ascribed to a Japanese tradition that the oldest child would marry first, and since Aya didn’t marry, the others did not. (Masa Murakami passed away in 2010.) ...