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!