geta: Japanese wooden sandals.
hakujin(s): Caucasian(s); white(s).
Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.
judo: A form of Jujitsu developed as a sport and a means of self-defense without the use of weapons.
katsudoshashin: Movie.
Nihon: Japan.
Nihongo: Japanese language.
Nihonjin(s): Japanese person(s).
Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.
robun hakase: Doctor's degree with a thesis.
romanji: A method of writing the Japanese language in Roman characters.
senryu: Japanese joke poem: witty epigrammatic Japanese poem containing seventeen syllables.
shigata ga nai: It can't be helped. There's nothing one can do.
Shinkansen: "Bullet train"; high-speed train in Japan.