daikon: Japanese radish.
hakujin: Caucasian(s); white(s).
hiragana: The Japanese alphabet, written with a cursive style.
Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.
kanji: Chinese characters used in Japanese writing.
katakana: The Japanese alphabet, written with a square style.
ken: A prefecture.
Kibei: American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.
nappa: Greens, as in vegetables.
nasubi: Eggplant.
nigiri: Hand-rolled sushi.
Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.
okazu: Side dish; accompaniment for rice dishes.
shoyu: Soy sauce.
sukiyaki: A Japanese dish of thinly sliced meat, onions, and other vegetables cooked quickly, often at table, with soy sauce, sake, sugar, etc.
tatami: Straw mat widely used as flooring in Japan.
tsukemono: Pickled vegetables.
yoshi: An adopted son; a son-in-law; a man who marries the eldest daughter in a family without sons and is adopted into her family to carry on the family name.