Japanese Resources for Hawaii

Japanese Multilingual Kokua Mau Resources

All documents (PDF files) are in Japanese only and are intended for educational purposes to facilitate the discussion of the topics with Hawaii residents with limited English proficiency. The Hawaii Advance Directive is the only exception, with a bilingual layout block by block.

Please visit the English background page for more information as well as an English PDF of the translated document.

Advance Directive

Japanese Hawaii Advance Health Care Directive • English page
ハワイ州医療についての事前指示書

Japanese  Hawaii Advance Health Care Directive Information Sheet • English page
あなたの将来に備えて医療についての事前指示書を作成しましょう

POLST for Hawaii

Japanese  POLST Form for Hawaii***• English page
延命治療に関する医療提供者指示書 (POLST)-HAWAI‘I

Japanese  Consumer Guide to POLST • English page

In Depth Resources

Japanese Questions about CPR • English page

Japanese Tube Feeding Information • English page


***The Hawaiʻi POLST form was updated in May 2023. We encourage everyone to use the updated version of POLST. If you have the pre-May 2023 version, it remains valid and does not expire. 


As more Japanese materials become available we may list selected resources from other organizations here.

The Conversation Project – Starter Kit

The Conversation Project isn’t about filling out Advance Directives or other medical forms. It’s about talking to your loved ones about what you or they want for end-of-life care. The Conversation Project offers a English Starter Kit that will help you or your organization to get your thoughts together and then have ‘the conversation’.

A Japanese version of the Starter Kit is available on their website. (Please click the Japanese PDF file.)


  • All of our Multilingual Resources including Advance Directives or POLST are available on the Kōkua Mau website at: www.kokuamau.org/languages.

We thank the collaborative effort of our sponsors that made this translation project possible.

AlohaCare 

Executive Office on Aging (EOA)

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC

Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) 

Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii 

Ohana Health Plan 

University Health Alliance (UHA

United Healthcare