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                              July 15, 2022

       Dean Y. Shigemura
       Vice Chair, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
       Bank of Hawaii Corporation
       130 Merchant Street
       Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

                                                        Re: Bank of Hawaii
Corporation
                                                            Form 10-K for the
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2021
                                                            Filed March 1, 2022
                                                            File No. 001-06887

       Dear Mr. Shigemura:

              We have limited our review of your filing to the financial
statements and related
       disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we
may ask you to
       provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
       comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

                                                        After reviewing your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

       Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2021

       Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations
       Critical Accounting Policies
       Reserve for Credit Losses, page 21

   1.                                                   You disclose that your
estimate of expected credit losses on loans and leases is based on
                                                        relevant information
about past events, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable
                                                        forecasts that affect
the collectability of the reported amounts. You also disclose that your
                                                        reserve for unfunded
commitments is determined by estimating future draws and applying
                                                        the expected loss rates
on those draws. Please provide us proposed revised disclosure to
                                                        be included in future
filings that:
                                                            Identifies the key
quantitative inputs used in your estimate of the allowance for
                                                             credit losses and
reserve for unfunded commitments;
                                                            Indicates and
quantifies how these key quantitative inputs changed from period to
                                                             period;
 Dean Y. Shigemura
Bank of Hawaii Corporation
July 15, 2022
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                Quantifies the qualitative component of your estimate and how
it interacts with
              the quantitative component during the period; and
             Provides a sensitivity analysis of the impact on the current
estimate of reasonably
              likely changes in the key quantitative inputs.
         To the extent appropriate, consider integrating your discussion of the
Hawaiian economy
         disclosed on page 23 and your outlook as presented and discussed on
slides 3 through 5 of
         your earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2021 held on January 24,
2022 into your
         response and future disclosures. See Item 303(b)(3) of Regulation S-K.

Loans and Leases, page 33

2.       Please represent to us that, in future filings, you will provide the
maturity disclosures,
         including providing an over 15 year category, if appropriate for each
loan category
         presented in your financial statements as required by Item 1404(a) of
Regulation S-K.
         Otherwise, tell us why it is appropriate to include this information
for only your
         Commercial and Industrial loans and leases and your Construction loans
and leases as
         presented in Table 10 on page 35.
3.       We note that you provide aggregated fixed rate versus variable rate
information for the
         loan categories presented in Table 10. Please represent to us that, in
future filings, you
         will provide this disclosure for each category of loans presented in
your financial
         statements as required by Item 1404(b) of Regulation S-K.
       In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are
responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review,
comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.

      You may contact Mark Brunhofer at 202-551-3638 or Sharon Blume at
202-551-
3474 with any questions.



FirstName LastNameDean Y. Shigemura                             Sincerely,
Comapany NameBank of Hawaii Corporation
                                                                Division of
Corporation Finance
July 15, 2022 Page 2                                            Office of
Finance
FirstName LastName