Nisei in a sentence

But drink a lot of cool water," said Manuel Cunha with the Nisei Farmers League.

David Ono, co-anchor for at 4 and 6 p.m., stepped past his anchor desk this year, touring his own multimedia production about the Japanese-American Nisei soldiers during World War II.

The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center presents the film “The Wind Rises,” an animated drama about the Japan builder of airplanes Horikoshi Ito.

This video is a demonstration of their commitment to never forget – even now some 80 years hence,” added Heirakuji, whose organization’s mission is a commitment to ensure that future generations learn the legacy of Hawai‘i’s Nisei soldiers.

Uncle Ted served in the famed all-nisei unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, sometimes called the Purple Heart Battalion because of all the killed and wounded.

Nisei military units that fought heroically in World War II will be honored Sept. 29 at the 19th annual Joint Memorial Service, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.

After screening of “Honor & Sacrifice” and ““Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawai’i,” panel discussion will be held with local filmmakers Lucy Ostrander, Don Sellers, Joyce Yamane, and Karen Matsumoto.

Many of them preferred to serve with the 100th Infantry Battalion, consisting of Nisei from their home territory.

His comic strips will help generations understand early Issei and Nisei life in Seattle.

Drafted just before the war, Kazuo became part of the renowned 100th Infantry Battalion, a unit made up entirely of Nisei from Hawaii.

Aging The kanreki (還暦), a traditional, pre-modern Japanese rite of passage to old age at 60, was sometimes celebrated by the Issei and is now being celebrated by increasing numbers of Nisei.

Aging The kanreki (還暦), a traditional, pre-modern Japanese rite of passage to old age at 60, was sometimes celebrated by the Issei and is now being celebrated by increasing numbers of Nisei and a few Sansei.

Because their number was relatively small, the Nisei WACs were not restricted to a segregated corps, but instead were spread out and served alongside other ethnic groups.

Boy Scouts at Granada War Relocation Center raising flag to half-mast during a Memorial Service for first six Nisei soldiers from this Center who were killed in action in Italy.

Holocaust historians have clarified the Nisei 522nd liberated about 3,000 prisoners at Kaufering IV Hurlach.

However, Japanese American leaders like Mike Masaoka and War Department officials like John J. McCloy soon began to push the Roosevelt administration to allow Nisei to serve in combat.

In Japanese counting, "one, two, three, four" is "ichi, ni, san, yon" see Japanese numerals The children of at least one nisei parent are called Sansei.

Internment main When the Canadian and American governments interned West Coast Japanese in 1942, neither distinguished between those who were citizens (Nisei) and their non-citizen parents (Issei).

Issei are born in Japan, their children born in the new country are referred to as Nisei (second generation), and their grandchildren are Sansei (third generation).

Many of the Issei responded to the law by transferring title to their land to their Nisei children.