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U N I T E D    S T A T E S

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

[ X ]     Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2008

or

[     ]     Transition Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the transition period from ______________ to ______________

Commission File Number: 1-6887

BANK OF HAWAII CORPORATION

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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1-888-643-3888

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(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes   X       No ___

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer     X                                                                                  Accelerated filer    ___

Non-accelerated filer __  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)           Smaller reporting company  ___

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Yes __      No X

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.

As of July 25, 2008, there were 47,766,792 shares of common stock outstanding.

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Bank of Hawaii Corporation

Form 10-Q

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Bank of Hawaii Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Income (Unaudited)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited).

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Bank of Hawaii Corporation and Subsidiaries

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Unaudited)

Note 1.  Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

Bank of Hawaii Corporation (the “Parent”) is a bank holding company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Bank of Hawaii Corporation and its Subsidiaries (the “Company”) provide a broad range of financial products and services to customers in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands (Guam, nearby islands, and American Samoa).  The Parent’s principal and only operating subsidiary is Bank of Hawaii (the “Bank”).  All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X.  Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and accompanying notes required by GAAP for complete financial statements.  In the opinion of management, the consolidated financial statements reflect normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts in the financial statements and accompanying notes.  Actual results may differ from those estimates and such differences could be material to the financial statements.

Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to current period classifications.

These statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007.  Operating results for the six months ended June 30, 2008 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2008.

Fair Value Measurements

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements,” which became effective for the Company on January 1, 2008, established a framework for measuring fair value, while expanding fair value measurement disclosures.  SFAS No. 157 established a fair value hierarchy that distinguishes between independent observable inputs and unobservable inputs based on the best information available.  SFAS No. 157 expands disclosures about the use of fair value to measure assets and liabilities, the effect of these measurements on earnings for the period, and the inputs used to measure fair value.  In February 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Staff Position (“FSP”) FAS 157-1 to exclude SFAS No. 13, “Accounting for Leases,” and its related interpretive accounting pronouncements that address leasing transactions, from the scope of SFAS No. 157.  In February 2008, the FASB also issued FSP FAS 157-2 to allow entities to electively defer the effective date of SFAS No. 157 for nonfinancial assets and liabilities, except for those items recognized or disclosed at fair value on an annual or more frequently recurring basis, until January 1, 2009.  The Company plans to apply the fair value measurement provisions of SFAS No. 157 to its nonfinancial assets and liabilities measured at fair value effective January 1, 2009.  The adoption of SFAS No. 157 had no impact on retained earnings and is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s statements of income and condition.

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Fair Value Option

SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, including an amendment of FASB Statement No. 115,” which became effective for the Company on January 1, 2008, provides entities with an option to report selected financial assets and financial liabilities, on an instrument by instrument basis, at fair value.  On January 1, 2008, the Company elected the fair value option for its subordinated notes, which are included in long-term debt on the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Condition.  In adopting the provisions of SFAS No. 159 on January 1, 2008, the Company adjusted the carrying value of the subordinated notes to fair value and recorded an after-tax cumulative-effect adjustment to reduce retained earnings by $2.7 million.  Prospectively, the accounting for the Company’s subordinated notes at fair value is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s statements of income and condition.

Loan Commitments

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 109, “Written Loan Commitments Recorded at Fair Value Through Earnings,” which became effective for the Company on January 1, 2008, requires entities to include the expected net future cash flows related to the servicing of the loan in the measurement of written loan commitments that are accounted for at fair value through earnings.  The expected net future cash flows from servicing the loan that are to be included in measuring the fair value of the written loan commitment is to be determined in the same manner that the fair value of a recognized servicing asset is measured under SFAS No. 156, “Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets, an amendment of FASB Statement No. 140.”  However, a separate and distinct servicing asset is not recognized for accounting purposes until the servicing rights have been contractually separated from the underlying loan by sale or securitization of the loan with servicing rights retained.  The impact of SAB No. 109 was to accelerate the recognition of the estimated fair value of the servicing rights related to the loan from the loan sale date to the loan commitment date.  The adoption of SAB No. 109 did not have a material impact on the Company’s statements of income and condition.

Future Application of Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2008, the FASB issued SFAS No. 161, “Disclosures About Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities - an Amendment of FASB Statement No. 133.”  SFAS No. 161 expands disclosure requirements regarding an entity’s derivative instruments and hedging activities.  Expanded qualitative disclosures that will be required under SFAS No. 161 include: (1) how and why an entity uses derivative instruments; (2) how derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted for under SFAS No. 133, “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities,” and related interpretations; and (3) how derivative instruments and related hedged items affect an entity’s financial position, financial performance, and cash flows.  SFAS No. 161 also requires several added quantitative disclosures in financial statements.  SFAS No. 161 will be effective for the Company on January 1, 2009 and its adoption is not expected to impact the Company’s statements of income and condition.

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Note 2.  Pension Plans and Postretirement Benefit Plan

The components of net periodic benefit cost for the Company’s pension plans and the postretirement benefit plan for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007 are presented in the following table:

The net periodic benefit cost for the Company’s pension plans and postretirement benefit plan are recorded as a component of salaries and benefits in the statements of income.  There were no significant changes from the previously reported $0.7 million that the Company expects to contribute to the pension plans and the $1.1 million that it expects to contribute to the postretirement benefit plan for the year ending December 31, 2008.  For the three and six months ended June 30, 2008, the Company contributed $0.3 million and $0.4 million, respectively, to its pension plans.  For the three and six months ended June 30, 2008, the Company contributed $0.3 million and $0.7 million, respectively, to its postretirement benefit plan.

Note 3.  Business Segments

The Company’s business segments are defined as Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Investment Services, and Treasury.  The Company’s internal management accounting process measures the performance of the business segments based on the management structure of the Company.  This process, which is not necessarily comparable with similar information for any other financial institution, uses various techniques to assign balance sheet and income statement amounts to the business segments, including allocations of income, expense, the provision for credit losses (the “Provision”), and capital.  This process is dynamic and requires certain allocations based on judgment and other subjective factors.  Unlike financial accounting, there is no comprehensive authoritative guidance for management accounting that is equivalent to GAAP.

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Selected financial information for each business segment is presented below for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007.