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.