The Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce (ホノルル日本人商工会議所) is a business organization that promotes economic growth in Hawaii and Japan.
[1] Once all of the Japanese immigrants were rehoused and claims were filed with the Hawaiian government, the group changed their focus to issues of trade between Hawaii and Japan that affected issei business owners.
Its creation was initially opposed by the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce because they believed that the organization's goals would run counter to the post-war "Americanization" of second-generation Japanese people.
The Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce holds many professional development and networking events throughout the year.
Considered long overdue, given that other ethnic beauty pageants had allowed mixed-race contestants for years prior, these rules were changed to reflect Hawaii's multiracial population.