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|url=http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20110526_Leader_reshaped_Big_Island_as_council_member_mayor.html |work=[[Honolulu Star Advertiser]] |publisher= |date=2011-05-26|accessdate=2011-07-08}}</ref><ref name=hawaii24>{{cite news|first=|last=|title=Former Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro (1941-2011) |url=http://www.hawaii247.com/2011/05/25/former-mayor-steve-yamashiro-1941-2011/ |work=[[Hawaii 24/7]] |publisher= |date=2011-05-25|accessdate=2011-07-10}}</ref> Yamashiro served on the Hawaii County council from 1976 to 1990, including eleven years as the council's chairman.<ref name=hsa/> He then served as the [[Mayor of Hawaii]] for two consecutive, four-year terms from 1992 until 2000.<ref name=hsa/>
The ''[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]]'' has referred to Yamashiro as "among the most influential political leaders" in the history of the [[Big Island of Hawaii]].<ref name=hsa/> More specifically, ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'' reporter Hugh Clark has called Yamashiro, "probably … the most significant newsmaker on the [[Hawaii (island)|Big Island]]" during the final thirty years of the 20th century.<ref name=hsa/>
==Biography==
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Yamashiro came into office facing major economic challenges for the [[Big Island of Hawaii]]. The island's once thriving [[Sugar plantations in Hawaii|sugar industry]] had declined, causing the loss of agricultural jobs.<ref name=hsa/> The last major [[sugar plantation]] closed on the island closed during the 1990s.<ref name=hsa/> Yamashiro, a strong proponent of development, pushed for the rapid development of [[resorts]] and other tourism [[infrastructure]] in [[South Kohala]] and [[North Kona]] to replace jobs lost in the sugar industry.<ref name=hsa/>
Yamshiro is credited with introducing the 100% [[Kona coffee]] [[emblem]] and [[logo]] now widely used by [[Coffee production in Hawaii|Kona Coffee producers]] on the [[Hawaii (island)|Big Island]].<ref name=hawaii24/> He expanded the tourism industry between [[Japan]] and the [[Hawaii (island)|Big Island]] of Hawaii.<ref name=hawaii24/> Yamashiro spearheaded efforts to recruit the [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] to open an office and international service at [[Kona International Airport]].<ref name=hawaii24/> He also successfully lobbied for nonstop, international flights between Kona and [[Narita International Airport]] by [[Japan Airlines]].<ref name=hawaii24/>
He also considered an advocate for the Big Island of Hawaii's agricultural industry, the University of Hawaii and the island's film industry.<ref name=hawaii24/>
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