Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Japanese immigrant, especially one to the United States.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Veronica Hughes, a Root editor and bookworm, had come across "issei," in her vast literary travels, and was able to conjure the correct spelling.
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Often compared to short-story masters such as Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor and Grace Paley, Ms. Yamamoto concentrated her imagination on the issei and nisei, the first- and second-generation Japanese Americans who were targets of the public hysteria unleashed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011
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Often compared to short-story masters such as Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor and Grace Paley, Ms. Yamamoto concentrated her imagination on the issei and nisei, the first- and second-generation Japanese Americans who were targets of the public hysteria unleashed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011
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These days, Naomi is thinking about leaving her show and becoming Big Apple issei—moving to New York.
Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007
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Since 10 percent of the clients are Japanese, the salon needs bilingual employees, and Tsuchitani finds herself in the position of being an American-trained stylist working with other Big Apple issei who underwent the more rigorous training that stylists receive in Japan.
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My nisei dad (from good ole uchinanchu stock) said that shibai in the form of plays done by issei were something he remembered and enjoyed (though he hated going to J-school on saturdays) though the nisei never put on plays like this.
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You know, issei is first generation, nisei is second generation.
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Put these people back in jail for life, and put these incompetent law enforcers UNDER the jail. fascinating, the story of issei sagawa is absolutely insane
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A second-place tie between two teams that each have first-place trophies to dust - Root Learning Inc. and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library - resulted in a sudden-death runoff that ran to four words - "solecism," "jnana," diffa, and "issei," and Root hit pay dirt on
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At 52 he finally finds acclaim when he publishes a novel about issei and nisei in Hawaii.
lampbane commented on the word issei
First-generation Japanese immigrants. Their children are called nisei.
March 29, 2009