Biography
Satoru Hirae was an Issei masseur from Honolulu. JCCH records his birth year as 1887. His individual record documents Honolulu Immigration Station custody, Sand Island July-August 1942, mainland transfer August 1942, Angel Island and Lordsburg in August 1942 and Santa Fe June 1943-October 1945. The intervening chronology is not specified. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. No individual arrest month is established. This was administrative US wartime civilian confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry. No individual criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence or exact arrest or release day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/hirae-satoru
