gaman: Patience, perseverance.
hapa: A Hawaiian term for a person of mixed ethnic parentage.
Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.
kanji: Chinese characters used in Japanese writing.
ken: A prefecture.
Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.
Sansei: American-born grandchildren of Japanese immigrants; third-generation Japanese Americans.
shikata ga nai: It can't be helped. There's nothing one can do.