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.