bento: Boxed lunch.

gotsou: Informal term for gochisou, or feast.

hakujin: Caucasian(s); white(s).

hana: A Japanese card game using playing cards with floral patterns, often a gambling game; also, nose; flower.

hapa: A Hawaiian term for a person of mixed ethnic parentage.

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

kana: Japanese alphabet.

ken: A prefecture.

kenjinkai: Association of people who came from the same prefecture in Japan.

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

Nihonjin: Japanese person(s).

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

onigiri: Rice ball.

sake: Japanese liquor; rice wine.

Sansei: American-born grandchildren of Japanese immigrants; third-generation Japanese Americans.

shoyu: Soy sauce.

-ya: Store.