Amerikajin: An American.

burakumin: Literally means "village people" but refers to people descended from persons who were ostracized as social outcasts and discriminated against, based on their occupations that involved animal slaughtering, leather making, disposal of bodies and related work, or due to alleged criminal activity. Such ostracism was in part, related to Buddhist sanctions against killing. Sometimes used as a derogatory term, this word has become a substitute for eta, which is derogatory.

Damatte shizuka ni shi, mo shikata ga nai koto. Dame dakara, so shikaranaide yukoto kikanakutte wa ikenai: Be quiet, we have no choice. You have to give up and have to yield to their demands.

gakidaisho: A boss of the kids in the neighborhood.

haiku: A Japanese verse form, rendered in English as 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables respectively, often on some subject of nature.

hakujin: Caucasian(s), white people.

Hokubei Ginsha: North America poem-composing club.

Ii koto shite chodai: Please do something good for me; Give me some treat.

Issei(s): First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

kaero: Let's go back.

kai: Club, group.

ken: A prefecture.

kendo: Japanese traditional fencing, in which a bamboo sword is used.

kenjinkai: An organized group of people from a certain prefecture in Japan.

kore kariru yo: I'm gonna borrow this, OK?

kosai: Associates, making-friends.

manju: Bean-paste bun.

mochigashi: Rice-cake sweet.

mokitaka: You've already come here.

Ni san nichi de motte kimasu: I'll return this within a couple of days.

Nihonjin: Japanese people.

Nikkeijinkai: An organized group of Japanese Americans.

Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.

nori: Dried laver, a kind of edible seaweed.

Ojisan: An uncle.

Okii nigiri: Big rice balls.

onigiri: Rice balls.

sake: Japanese liquor.

Sansei: American born grandchildren of Japanese immigrants; third generation Japanese Americans.

Senryu no (club): The club which people get together to compose senryu and criticize among others.

senryu: Japanese joke poem: witty epigrammatic Japanese poem containing seventeen syllables.

sensei: A teacher.

soba: Japanese buckwheat noodle.

Toyama: A prefecture in Japan, which locates in the northwest region, the Sea of Japan side.

Toyama-shi: Toyama city.

udon: Japanese wheat noodle.

umeboshi: Pickled plum.

undokai: A field day, a sports day.