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.