Bon Odori: Buddhist summer festival of the dead, which honors ancestors.
Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.
ken: A prefecture.
kenjinkai: Association of people who came from the same prefecture.
Nihonjin: Japanese person(s).
Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.
Oneesan: Older sister.
sake: Japanese liquor; rice wine.