Kisaburo Shiosaki – Robert Lloyd Artist & Advocate https://4comculture.com Building The Community You Are Looking For Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:52:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 28322325 Shiosaki Family Arrives in Spokane https://4comculture.com/archives/7702?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shiosaki-family-arrives-in-spokane https://4comculture.com/archives/7702#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:48:44 +0000 https://4comculture.com/?p=7702 Continue reading →]]> By Patricia Bayonne-Johnson

Kisaburo Shiosaki

Railroad and mine companies in the West had a severe shortage of laborers in the 1880s and 1890s so they reached across the Pacific to Japan to solve their problem. Thousands of healthy, strong, young Japanese laborers were recruited.  Kisaburo Shiosaki was of the laborers who came to America and eventually ended up in Spokane.

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