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."
Community members had their say Saturday about a proposed 18-story-tall pedestrian/bike bridge spanning the Ala Wai Canal at a meeting held by state senators representing the districts that will be affected by the structure. Read more
Ocean Safety lifeguards on emergency personal watercraft found the man unresponsive at about 10:30 a.m. Read more
Chief Lee Dixon Donohue, who retired in 2004, was eulogized for his six years as chief, his 40 years of service with the Honolulu Police Department, for being a dedicated husband and father, and for his continued work in community causes. Read more
Ezequiel Zayas, who gained national notoriety for secretly living inside a Navy family’s home on Oahu and planning to perform surgery on them and later killing a 62-year-old fellow inmate while awaiting trial, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison. Read more
A 40-year-old Puna man who is considered a “persistent offender” could face a life sentence without the possibility of parole for kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old girl if convicted of the charges. Read more
Honolulu District Courthouse will reopen today after a structural assessment found its parking garage, damaged the night of Aug. 15 by a contractor, and the courthouse are safe for occupancy. Read more
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A Honolulu law firm has filed what its lawyers believe is the first lawsuit on behalf of a resident who lost his home Aug. 8 in the Kula fire. Read more
A year after a first trial resulted in a hung jury, a second murder trial began Wednesday for a man who shot an acquaintance at his Punaluu family compound, then hid the body in a banana patch behind his house. Read more
Three Honolulu law firms are suing the adoptive parents of Isabella Kalua, the state, the Department of Human Services and Catholic Charities of Hawaii on behalf of the child’s estate and her four surviving siblings. Read more
Police say Isabella, also known as Ariel Sellers, was killed on or about Aug. 18, 2021, by adoptive parents Lehua Kalua and Isaac “Sonny” Kalua III at their blue, two-story Waimanalo home. Read more
The National Transportation Safety Board found that miscommunication between United Airlines Flight 1722’s captain and copilot precipitated the aircraft’s plunge of 1,352 feet just one minute after departure from Kahului Airport on its way to San Francisco in 2022. Read more
After three days of deliberation, a six-man, six-woman jury could not come to a unanimous decision in the murder trial of a 36-year-old man accused of shooting Jon Tokuhara, his wife’s ex-lover and acupuncturist who treated her for infertility and aided the couple in conceiving a child. Read more
The jury deliberated for three full days, resulting in a hung jury on the charges of second-degree murder and carrying or use of a firearm in the commission of a separate felony. Read more
The 26-year-old former Bend, Ore., woman admitted she and Stephen Brown burglarized a North Shore vacation rental only for food, but denies responsibility for the kidnapping and horrifying slaying of Telma Boinville. Read more
Hailey Dandurand blames Stephen Brown for the crimes and earlier testified that she was afraid of him. Read more
The 36-year-old Wailupe man on trial in connection with the Jan. 12, 2022, slaying of his wife’s ex-lover and acupuncturist is expected to testify on his own behalf today. Read more
Hailey Dandurand, “the girl with the pink hair,” in testimony Tuesday blamed her then-boyfriend for the coldblooded 2017 murder of a 51-year-old Sunset Beach woman who surprised the pair of burglars when she entered to clean a North Shore vacation rental. Read more
Makana Boinville Emery was just 8 years old when she was found Dec. 7, 2017, bound to a bed frame with her mouth taped on the second floor of a North Shore vacation rental while her mother lay lifeless downstairs. Read more
The state’s case against a 36-year-old East Honolulu man has been unfolding over the past few days with dramatic surveillance video showing the glow of a fire at his Wailupe home, a white pickup truck leaving his house and arriving near his wife’s ex-lover’s Waipahu office, as well as a return trip, and a hat that linked him to the crime scene. Read more
Trial got underway Tuesday for Hailey Dandurand, “the girl with the pink hair,” accused of the gruesome Dec. 7, 2017, murder of Telma Boinville at a North Shore vacation rental. Read more
A recently retired Honolulu police detective last week explained to a jury how the person who slain acupuncturist Jon Tokuhara had exchanged thousands of cellphone messages with was identified. Read more
