Ariyoshi remembered as visionary leader through turbulent times
Former Gov. George Ryoichi Ariyoshi — Hawaii’s longest-serving governor and America’s first governor of Japanese ancestry — was remembered Friday night at the state Capitol as a visionary leader who helped steer Hawaii from a plantation-based U.S. Territory into a modern era of diversified agriculture, tourism and aerospace technology and through the tumultuous 1970s cultural Hawaiian renaissance.
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