The State of Hawaii is promoting a trade mission to Japan for late May, aimed at matching Japanese investors with island ventures.
Time is short, however.
The businesses also must prepare all of their promotional materials in Japanese. The company said shareholders need not surrender their Bancorp Hawaii stock certificates. Boeing Co. 's first-quarter profit tripled on more commercial airplane deliveries and profits from its new defense and space units, the company said today. New homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 813,000 last month, a 2.5 percent decline from a rate of 834,000 in February that was the highest since April 1986, the Commerce Department said today. The sales pace was 825,000 in January.