nisei
See also: Nisei
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈniseɪ/
Noun
nisei (plural niseis or nisei)
- an American or Canadian whose parents were Japanese immigrants
- 1978, Gordon Hirabayashi, “Japanese Heritage, Canadian Experience,” in Harold Coward and Leslie S. Kawamura eds., Religion and Ethnicity, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p 66:
- The Nisei, on the other hand, are more inclined to view the hyphenated Japanese Canadian identity with positive implications.
- 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
- Decrypts fly out of a line printer on the other end and are taken off to another hut where American nisei, and some white men trained in Nipponese, translate them.
- 1978, Gordon Hirabayashi, “Japanese Heritage, Canadian Experience,” in Harold Coward and Leslie S. Kawamura eds., Religion and Ethnicity, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p 66:
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