nisei

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Why they can't draw from the Nisei population in Hawaii and the west coast is still baffling.

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Quick take

a person born outside of Japan of parents who were born in Japan

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of nisei gathered in one view.

noun

a person born outside of Japan of parents who were born in Japan

noun

One whose parents were Japanese immigrants, especially to North or South America.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nisei.

noun

a person born outside of Japan of parents who were born in Japan

noun

One whose parents were Japanese immigrants, especially to North or South America.

Example sentences

Why they can't draw from the Nisei population in Hawaii and the west coast is still baffling.

Even the internment of Japanese was a relatively small footnote, mollified by the commendable heroic sacrifice of the Nisei 442nd Regiment.

Well, if I've gotta present credentials, then I'm a nisei, so I think I have some legitimacy.

I imagine that if these camps were actually much worse that what is reported, we'd hear it from the living nisei today.

Disclaimer: I'm a nisei (second generation) Japanese-American.

I’m quite familiar with issei-nisei-sansei.

Wealthy, well-educated Taiwanese semiconductor engineers from the '70s and '80s are not the same as LA Korean grocers are not the same as Vietnamese boat people are not the same as Hmong refugees are not the same as recent mainland Chinese nouveau riche are not the same as Nisei and Sansei who have been in the U.

Quote examples

Japanese Americans were thrown into camps for the same reason ``` Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast.[9] About 80,000 were Nisei (literal translation: "second generation"; American-born Japanese with U.

Proper noun examples

Nisei were nevertheless encouraged to serve in the armed forces, and some were also drafted.

Go read about when we locked up the Nisei.

My grandson's great grandfather, on his mother's side, was one of the original (Nisei) 100th Battalion soldiers during WW2, and I also served in the same unit decades afterwards.