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

Issei: First-generation Japanese immigrant in America.

ken: A prefecture.

kodomo no tame ni: For the sake of the children.

nappa: Greens, as in vegetables.

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

samurai: Japanese warrior or military class during feudal times in Japan.

tsukemono: Pickled vegetables.