baishakunin: Go-between for arranged marriages; matchmaker.

hana: A Japanese card game using playing cards with floral patterns.

Issei(s): First-generation Japanese American(s).

kamaboko: Boiled fish paste.

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

Nikkei: A person of Japanese ancestry.

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

surimi: Ground fishmeat.

yakuza: A gangster; a good-for-nothing (fellow); a scoundrel.