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."
During Eric Thompson’s murder trial, the only firearms shown as exhibits to jurors were his two .22- caliber rifles found at his home, which were not used in the Jan. 12, 2022, shooting death of his wife’s ex-lover. Read more
Jurors in the Oahu Circuit Court trial will reconvene this morning to hear evidence for extended sentencing, which he is subject to because he also was found guilty of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Read more
A Circuit Court jury found Thompson guilty of killing Waipahu acupuncturist Jon Tokuhara on Jan. 12, 2022. Read more
Jury deliberations began Wednesday afternoon, following closing arguments, in the murder trial of Eric Thompson, accused of fatally shooting acupuncturist Jon Tokuhara, his wife Joyce’s ex-lover, in 2022. Read more
Eric Thompson, on trial for fatally shooting acupuncturist Jon Tokuhara on Jan. 12, 2022, six months after his wife confessed to an affair with the victim, offered testimony last week in an attempt to refute prosecution claims that he was a controlling man. Read more
An Oahu grand jury Friday indicted JL Capital CEO Timothy Lee, 48, on nine counts of false-name contribution for allegedly making $13,000 in campaign contributions in another person’s name in 2020 to the mayoral campaigns of Keith Amemiya and Kymberly Pine. Read more
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All heads in the jury box turned to defendant Eric Thompson, on trial for a second time in the murder of his wife’s ex-lover, when video surveillance footage was shown of the prime suspect in the case walking near the victim’s Waipahu acupuncture clinic. Read more
The plea agreement meant Baron would admit to the crimes in exchange for the state not asking the court for extended sentencing. Read more
Eric Thompson, accused of fatally shooting his wife’s ex-lover Jon Tokuhara three years ago, is being portrayed by the state as a controlling husband in his second murder trial — the first ending in a hung jury Aug. 9, 2023. Read more
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