Below you will find example sentences with "japanese american". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Japanese American in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: japanese
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.7 words

Words in this phrase

japanese american

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • japanese can mean: Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture. Frequent word
  • american can mean: A citizen or national of the United States of America. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a japanese american woman in 1× a prominent japanese american family in 1× at the japanese american citizens league 1× at the japanese american museum of 1× canadian and japanese american communities 1× confident chic japanese american lady seated 1× erasure of japanese american heritage 1× experience with japanese american exclusion during 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a japanese american 1× a japanese buddhist 1× a month after 1× as immigrants the 1× as shohei ohtani 1× combined with the 1×

Common sentence endings:

world war ii 2× a fur coat 1× a mexican pinata 1× an internment camp 1× family in monterey 1× in berkeley california 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

world 6× war 6× internment 5× community 4× family 3× camp 3× citizens 2× league 2× museum 2× oregon 2× allies 2× conflicts 2×

Related phrases

american banking american horror latin american american express american flag african american american history native american asian american american dream

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around japanese:

japanese people 12× japanese food 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

january capitol janeiro brazil jane street jane goodall jane doe jane austen

Just after it in the phrase index:

japanese food japanese people jason clare jason kelce jason momoa jay county

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

japanese people japanese food

Same ending:

latin american african american native american asian american mexican american pan american

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "japanese american" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a japanese american woman in, a prominent japanese american family in, world, war and internment stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with american banking, american horror, latin american, japanese people and japanese food, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with japanese american

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A Japanese American woman in a Japanese kimono hitting a Mexican pinata. (12 words)

Kori Suzuki is a Japanese American multimedia journalist and photographer currently based in Berkeley, California. (15 words)

So, a Japanese American born of Japanese parents, nurtured upon Japanese traditions, living in a transplanted Japanese atmosphere. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Officials say the city's response was hampered because the message was posted on a local holiday in honor of Fred Kurematsu, a World War II Japanese American activist who was imprisoned for refusing to go to an internment camp. (40 words)

As immigrants, the conflicts between the old country and the new played out in unique ways for each individual, and yet common elements do begin to appear in the history of the Japanese Canadian and Japanese American communities. (38 words)

One theory for why this occurred is because of the Japanese American internment during World War II, which forcibly put over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps, including those who had produced fortune cookies. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

The Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee, Japanese American Citizens League, Densho, Japanese American Museum of Oregon and allies have organized the letter-writing campaign to stop the erasure of Japanese American heritage.

So, a Japanese American born of Japanese parents, nurtured upon Japanese traditions, living in a transplanted Japanese atmosphere.

Combined with the inequitable payment of salaries between white and Japanese American employees, conflicts arose at several hospitals, and there were two Japanese American walk-outs at Heart Mountain in 1943.

A Japanese American woman in a Japanese kimono hitting a Mexican pinata.

A month after my visit, Mr. Kojima happened to visit Seattle to interview Japanese Americans about their personal or family experience with Japanese American exclusion during World War II.

A Japanese Buddhist church is one of the few remaining buildings left of Alameda's pre-war Japanese American community.

As immigrants, the conflicts between the old country and the new played out in unique ways for each individual, and yet common elements do begin to appear in the history of the Japanese Canadian and Japanese American communities.

One theory for why this occurred is because of the Japanese American internment during World War II, which forcibly put over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps, including those who had produced fortune cookies.

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Japanese American wartime allies are Californian—lawyers Ernest Besig, Wayne Collins, and Hugh Macbeth, or Ralph Lazo, the Mexican American teenager who went to Manzanar to live with his friends.

In the 1970s, leaders at the Japanese American Citizens League, one of the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organizations, felt the prospect of reparations for their wartime incarceration was out of reach.

Historic Japanese American communities have dispersed as cities like San Francisco redeveloped their neighborhoods, and the residents moved outward toward the suburbs.

It was in this creative, freewheeling environment that Smith first met Kodani, son of a prominent Japanese American family in Monterey.

Kori Suzuki is a Japanese American multimedia journalist and photographer currently based in Berkeley, California.

The U.S. government formally apologized, and reparations were issued to the Japanese American community in 1988 when Ronald Reagan was president.

While imprisoned at a World War II internment camp with her family, Yuri Kochiyama created a community of fellow young people to share letters with Japanese American soldiers.

As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II.

Craft, Community, and Care: The Art and Legacy of Bob Shimabukuro” will show at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon from February 17 through April 14.

Writer/editor/filmmaker Frank Abe discusses a new anthology he co-edited entitled “The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration” with Karen Maeda Allman.

In one image we see a confident chic Japanese American lady seated at the end of a park bench in late winter staring confidently at the camera wrapped in a fur coat.

Officials say the city's response was hampered because the message was posted on a local holiday in honor of Fred Kurematsu, a World War II Japanese American activist who was imprisoned for refusing to go to an internment camp.

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