Dr. Elizabeth Keith, Hawaiʻi Tokai Dean of Instruction, met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his visit to Hawaiʻi in December, 2016. Dr. Keith thanked the Prime Minister for coming to visit Pearl Harbor, told him about Hawaiʻi Tokai’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack and about the 1,177 cranes on display at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center that were made by Hawaiʻi Tokai students.