Internment Locations

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island


Ichiro Sato was born in Honolulu and was a veteran conscript of the U.S. Army in World War I. Other WWI veterans who were interned include Sanji Abe, Frank Futoshi Arakawa, Frank Takeshi Ishii, Sukeichi Koide, Shigeru Ernest Matsusaka, and Ichitaro Ozaki. Sato was a member of the Honolulu Japanese Hotel Association, along with some ten other innkeepers, including fellow veteran Sukeichi Koide. Tokuji Baba, Yuichi Nakamura, and Jinshichi Tokairin were association members who also were imprisoned during the war.