"It was one month after the 9/11 tragedy. I could not sleep. I sat at my dining room table reviewing stats, financial projections, and adjusted budgets. My mind was consumed with an idea that had grown huge over the past couple weeks, and that night, I found myself reviewing the total implications of adopting this new style of running my practice.
 

In some respects the idea was crazy. From a pure business perspective it was foolish, maybe suicidal. However, the idealistic side of me knew that this approach to health care was the most congruent with everything I believed about healing, my responsibility as a doctor, and what it means to provide the best care to my patients.
 

So after pondering the matter deep into the night, I prayed and as dawn broke I finally felt a quiet confirmation in my mind and heart that I should take this leap of faith.
 

The next day, Hawaii's first Honor Box was born."  -- Dr. Shiraki

The Honor Box Code

If you can afford to purchase a prepayment program, please do so. If you cannot, the Honor Box will always be available for you.
 

When using the Honor Box, please make the payment as close as you possibly can to the standard fee of $40.00.

Throughout the course of your care, you may switch back and forth between a prepayment program and the Honor Box.

Kindly remember that Honor Box Chiropractic is required to pay a general excise tax on everything paid to the Honor Box.

Make payments right after your adjustment by placing the cash amount or check into the Honor Box sitting on the front desk. Placing your payment in an envelope is not necessary. If you want to make a payment on your credit card, just ask one of the chiropractic assistants to process that charge.

We do not track or record your payments to the Honor Box.

If you wish to file with an insurance company, we can help you with the paperwork, but ultimately the receipt of reimbursement is your responsibility. A patient will not be allowed to use the Honor Box and file a claim at the same time.

We reserve the right to revoke a patient’s Honor Box privileges if it is deemed that he or she is abusing the system.

All patients who use the Honor Box must make a firm commitment to refer friends and family to this clinic.  In order to keep this system a true WIN/WIN arrangement, this clinic must always have a steady flow of new patients.

No matter what you pay, no matter how you pay, you will always get our best.

Howzit!
 

Thanks again for stopping by my website. Here's a little background about my journey to become a chiropractor:
 

After graduating from Iolani in 1986, I went to BYU-Provo as an art major. My dream out of high school was to become a painter.
 

In 1988, I served a church mission in Hiroshima, Japan for two years. When I returned to BYU, I switched majors from art to recreational management. I changed my mind and decided that I would prefer working with local kids at the YMCA instead of working the paintbrush.
 

Then I got engaged. Eriko, my future wife, told me the day after she agreed to marry me that she didn't think recreational management was a wise move. . . and maybe I should look at other career possibilities.
 

So I decided to switch majors once again and the new plan was to graduate with a Japanese language bachelor's degree and then get into law school. This time things looked like I was really on the right track. I started getting really proficient at reading and writing kanji. I started my LSAT prep. But then about four months before getting my bachelors, it hits me.
 

I don't want to be a lawyer. Sure, Grisham novels are awesome and arguing a case in front of a jury like they do in Law and Order seemed so cool, but the obvious finally dawned on me: all that is fiction. And the reality of what lawyers do in real life did not really match with who I am deep inside.
 

So I get this moment of clarity and sigh, "Now what?"
 

I scrambled. Do I take my Japanese degree and teach? Maybe. Graduate, move back to Hawaii and work with my dad in the construction biz. Possible, but not likely. Start from scratch and get into engineering, perhaps? Take another crack at art?
 

Limbo is a very frustrating place to be. Especially, as a newlywed.
 

In my search for an answer, I visit for the first time the BYU Counseling and Career Center. I browse through some brochures and flyers they have out on an information table. One on dental school. Hmmm. One on optometry school. Interesting. Another piece of literature on podiatry.
 

Teeth, eyes and feet.
 

Then I see a stack of info on chiropractic. Info on how to become a chiropractor and what a career in chiropractic is all about.
 

I know. Instantly. This is what I am to be. There is absolutely no doubt.
 

I rush home and tell my wife that I'm going to be a chiropractor. Without ever even been treated by a chiropractor, without even knowing a single, solitary chiropractor, I know what I am to be.
 

My wife smiles. She doesn't even knows what "chiropractic" means. And at that point, neither did I, really. But she knows that I know and that's enough for her.
 

So three weeks later my application is filled and sent to Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City.
 

And three months after that, my pregnant wife and I are traveling in a rented U-Haul van in a move from Provo to Kansas City.
 

In October of 1998, I graduated from Cleveland Chiropractic College (named after the school's founding family, not the city in Ohio) and just one week after getting that doctorate diploma my wife and I along with the two kids we had there in KC moved back to Hawaii. I began my career as an associate at Hawaii Chiropractic Clinic in Aiea. Seven months later, I opened up my own place, Hawaiian Pacific Chiropractic, in Kalihi. In 2013, I opened a new clinic in Pearl City and renamed my practice Honor Box Chiropractic.
 

Eriko and I have been blessed with two more children after we returned to Hawaii. So there's six of us all together now. Life's been good.
 

And that's enough about me. Now, I hope I'll have the chance to meet you! Especially if I can help and serve you as a chiropractor in any way. It would be an honor if you would like to be a part of the chiropractic family here with us.ease edit before publishing.