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.