doride: It's no wonder.

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(s).

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

maa, kawaiso ni: Oh, poor thing.

Nihonjin: Japanese person(s).

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

nori: Dried laver, a kind of edible seaweed.

ochazuke: Rice with hot water or tea poured over it.

otsukemono: Pickled vegetables.

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

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

Senryukai: Senryu poetry-writing club.

shacho san: Company president.

yoroshii desu yo: It's all right!