gaijin: Foreigner.

go: A Japanese game of strategy played with black and white stones on a board marked with many intersecting lines.

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

kenjinkai: Association of people who came from the same prefecture in Japan.

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

shogi: Japanese chess.

tsukemono: Pickled vegetables.

yama: Mountain.