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\n Author:Lonny Kaneko;\nTitle:The Shoyu Kid;\nPubName:;\nPubDate:1976;\nPubDetails:;\nDOI:;\nWebsite:;\n

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\n Short story by Lonny Kaneko set in\n \n Minidoka\n \n centering on three boys who chase and bully a fourth boy, in the process unearthing his molestation by a camp guard. The Seattle-based author had been incarcerated at Minidoka as a child.\n \n The Shoyu Kid\n \n was originally published in\n \n Amerasia Journal\n \n in 1976.\n

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\n \n Authored by\n \n Brian Niiya\n \n , Densho\n \n
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\n Niiya, Brian\n
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\n Might also like \"\n \n Children of Topaz\n \n \" by Toshio Mori; \"\n \n Otoko\n \n \" by Wakako Yamauchi; \"\n \n The Flower Girls\n \n \" by Lawson Fusao Inada\n

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\n Kaneko, Lonny. \"The Shoyu Kid.\"\n \n Amerasia Journal\n \n 3.2 (1976): 1–9. Reprinted in\n \n Yardbird Reader\n \n 5 (1976): 273–83 and\n \n \n The Big Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature\n \n \n , edited by Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong (New York: Meridian, 1991): 304–13.\n

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