WAIMEA — Sept. 2, 1945 is recognized as the end of World War II when the Americans and Japanese signed documents aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

On Sunday, the Waimea Shingon Mission and Rev. Kohtoku Hirao will host an interfaith service celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, and commemorating the legacy of the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team from Kauai.

The service is open to the public and will start at 9 a.m. at the Waimea Shingon Mission in Waimea Valley, where Ken Morikawa of the West Kauai Club 100 and Dr. George Tanabe, Emeritus Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, will share some remarks.

The interfaith service will also commemorate those veterans whose toba, or memorial tablets, were “discovered” in the shrine adjacent t

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