Station Alumni
Shinobu Sato hosted a one-hour weekday morning Japanese language program called Echoes of Japan. Her long career at KHBC/KPUA led the station's general manager, asked when Sate started hosting, to tell the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in December 2001, "We've never been able to figure it out exactly. It's close to 50 years." Sato retired from KPUA in May 2002 after 43 years on the air. The Japanese Community Association of Hawaii named Sato a "cultural treasure" in 2003 for her "significant contributions to the preservation and perpetuating of the Japanese culture and arts", In addition to her extended radio career, Sato had worked as a state papaya inspector and cosmetics sales agent. Born in Papa'ikou, Hawai'i, she died on October 17, 2008, at the age of 98.
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