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.