With the inauguration of David Ige on Monday, the state of Hawaii welcomed its eighth governor, a third-generation Japanese-American and the second governor of Japanese ancestry for the state.

"I stand here today in the shadow of my parents' and my grandparents' accomplishments because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future," Ige said in his first speech after taking the oath of office at the State Capitol in Honolulu.

"And I say to them and my mother, who is watching today from the hospital, with the greatest humility, 'okagesamade' — All that I am, I am because of you," Ige said using a Japanese expression of appreciation.