banzai: Cheers; congratulations.
ben: Speech; dialect.
haji: Disgrace, shame.
hakujin: Caucasian(s); white(s).
imin: Immigrant; emigrants.
Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.
keian: Servants' registry office.
Kibei: American-born person of Japanese ancestry sent to Japan for formal education and socialization when young and later returned to the U.S.
Nisei: American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second-generation Japanese Americans.