Fred "Rosie" Shiosaki

ID: 4343 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Japanese American National Museum
This file appears in: The Hillyard Hand Laundry

Fred Shiosaki grew up in Hillyard and volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army during WWII. After the war, Shiosaki went on to fight against air pollution in the city of Spokane, serving as the director of the Spokane County Air Pollution Control Authority.

This file appears in: The Hillyard Hand Laundry

By Anna Harbine
Being Japanese in Hillyard was not always easy. Home to a large community of railroad workers of every nationality, conflicts between the Japanese and other laborers were frequent, sometimes resulting…