She has been reporting professionally for more than 20 years beginning in October 1999 with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. She was retained by its new owner in 2001 and again when the newspaper merged into the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in 2010.
Earlier in her career, a Feb. 10, 2001 article titled, "I want to tell my parents I am alive," got national and international attention with the first interview of anyone who had been aboard the Ehime Maru. The New York Times used quotes she obtained from a 16-year-old student who survived the sinking of the Japanese fishing vessel by a U.S. Navy submarine, and gave a nod to the Star-Bulletin. The Toronto Star ran the story. Fujimori also shared a 2004 Society of Professional Journalists award with two colleagues for a breaking news story, "1 dead/Cop Shot."
Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, volunteering to protect native forests, beekeeping, farming, traveling, singing and spending time with her "dogter."
A Circuit Court judge Wednesday sentenced the former Department of Public Safety’s once top-ranking training officer to a year of probation and a suspended 30-day jail sentence to run concurrently for falsifying her academic transcripts. Read more
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An 85-year-old Liliha woman, accused of setting her rented house on fire Feb. 28, was indicted Tuesday by an Oahu grand jury on the charge of first-degree arson, a Class A felony punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment. Read more
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A 62-year-old Naalehu woman convicted Dec. 22 of second-degree murder in the June 30, 2009, shooting death of Kaycee Smith, a 21-year-old rodeo standout, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole and an additional 20 years. Read more
An Oahu grand jury Wednesday indicted Jesse Lewis Nielsen, 30, on a second-degree murder charge in the Feb. 19 stabbing death of a 63-year-old Kakaako man, Yaohua Yan, employed at the University of Hawaii’s Center for Chinese Studies. Read more
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The foster parents of 10-year-old Geanna Bradley and the foster mom’s mother pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and other charges related to the child’s death at their Wahiawa house. Read more
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A group of about 50 gathered Wednesday at the state Capitol to commemorate the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine with a strong message: Stand with Ukraine. Read more
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A Wahiawa couple indicted Wednesday for the murder of their 10-year-old foster child, Geanna Bradley, could face life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted because the murder was “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel,” according to a 61-page indictment. Read more
An Oahu grand jury indicted today a Wahiawa couple along with the wife’s mother on charges of second-degree murder and numerous felony charges in connection with the death and abuse of 10-year-old Geanna Bradley. Read more
Oahu Circuit Judge Shanlyn Park dismissed labor- trafficking felony charges against a Palolo couple accused of bringing a woman and her then 15-year-old daughter from Guam to Honolulu in 2021, beating and forcing them to perform work, locking the girl in their apartment and taking their passports and money. Read more
The Honolulu Building Board of Appeals denied a request from developer Christy Z. Lei to continue building a “monster home” at 3615 Sierra Drive in a residential neighborhood of Kaimuki. Read more
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