Anata no Nihongo, okashi ne?: "Your Japanese is interesting, isn't it?"

bento: Boxed lunch.

chanbara: Sword fight.

daijobu ka: Are you okay?

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

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.

jintori: A type of war game: set up camps for both sides, and try to capture enemies in order to enlarge territory.

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

nigiri: Hand-rolled sushi.

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

rei: To bow.

shogi: Japanese chess.

yen: The basic monetary unit of Japan.