daikon: Japanese radish.

hakujin: Caucasian(s); white(s).

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

ken: A prefecture.

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

manju: Bean-paste bun.

mochi: Japanese rice cake.

mochitsuki: Rice cake making.

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

nori: Dried laver, a kind of edible seaweed.

obon: The summer Bon festival, a Buddhist festival, which honors ancestors.

sake: Japanese liquor; rice wine.

sashimi: Thin slices of raw fish.

senbei: A Japanese rice cracker.

shoyu: Soy sauce.

sumo: Japanese style wrestling.

Taihen na koto ga dekita: "A terrible thing has happened."

taiko: Japanese drums.

tsukemono: Pickled vegetables.

udon: Japanese wheat noodle.

umeboshi: Pickled plum.