The BDK-Yoshiaki Interfaith Program
in collaboration with
Mōʻiliʻili Hongwanji
presents

“The Power of Stories in Japanese Religion”

with Dr. George Tanabe

The QR code in the above flyer expands to the event posting at eventbrite.com:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-stories-in-japanese-religions-tickets-1985611556617

Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026

Time: 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Place: Mōʻiliʻili Hongwanji Mission

Speaker: Dr. George Tanabe

To RSVP, go to the above event posting and click the Reserve a spot button.

This is a free seminar.

Public is invited.

Donations are welcome.

About the speaker

George Tanabe was born and raised in Waialua, Hawaii. He graduated from University High School, Willamette University (B.A.), Union Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Columbia University (M.A. and Ph.D.). From 1977 to 2006, he taught in the Department of Religion at the University of Hawaii and is currently Professor Emeritus. He is President of BDK Hawaii and Chairman of BDK America, and has published with university presses at Harvard, Hawaii, Columbia and Princeton. For his work as a consultant to the U.S. Navy on the recovery of the Ehime Maru, the Japanese government honored him with the Foreign Minister’s Award (2007) and the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun (2012). In 2024, the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii named him a Living Treasure of Hawaii. George and his wife Willa (Professor Emerita of Japanese Art History) published Japanese Buddhist Temples of Hawai’i: An Illustrated Guide (UH Press). His first novel, Miki’s Mad, was published in 2024 by Deuxmers Publishing. He still lives in Waialua.