Hoshidan: Informal name for pro-Japanese group in Tule Lake incarceration camp. Short for Sokuji Kikoku Hoshi Dan (Organization to Return Immediately to the Homeland to Serve).

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

Kibei: American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.

Kokkaido: A public hall.

Nikkei: A person of Japanese ancestry.

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

Seinenkai: Young adult association.