ganbaru: Persist; insist on.

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

ken: A prefecture.

ken: Prefecture.

kunsho: A decoration; a medal.

Nihonjin: Japanese person(s).

Nihonjinkai: An association of Japanese people.

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

sake: Japanese liquor; rice wine.

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

shoyu: Soy sauce.

yoshi: An adopted son; a son-in-law; a man who marries the eldest daughter in a family without sons and is adopted into her family to carry on the family name.