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.