Spanish Term used in this volume to refer to Nikkei settlement and/or community or colony.
D
Dekasegi
Dekasegui (in Spanish) or dekassegui (in Portuguese). The term refers to a practice of leaving one's home place for another location for temporary work to supplement family income.
G
Gosei
Fifth generation, children of the Yonsei.
I
Issei
First generation of Japanese to emigrate from Japan and settle permanently in a new country.
K
Kachi-gumi
Believers in Brazil of Japanese victory after World War II.
Kibei
Second generation, children of the Issei, born in the country of settlement and educated in Japan.
M
Make-gumi
Believers in Brazil of Japan's defeat after World War II.
Second generation, children of the Issei, born in the country of settlement.
P
Picture bride
Issei women who came to the other country to marry husbands they knew only form photographs. The picture marriage was a way for Issei men to marry and raise families in their adopted land without the expense and trouble of returning to Japan.
S
Sansei
Third generation, children of the Nisei.
Shin-Issei
Term for a post-World War II immigrant from Japan. The prefix shin means "new".
W
War bride
Japanese war brides immigrated to the United States in the post-World War II years. Although estimates, vary, as many as 6,000 to 7,000 war brides entered the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. During the 1950s, about 8- percent of all Japanese immigrants to the United States were wives of U.S. servicemen. Asian immigration under the War Brides Act of 1945 included women from Japan, China, Korea, and the Philippines. Although the War Brides Act expired in 1952, many female immigrants continued to enter the country as nonquota immigrants.
Y
Yobiyose
Migrants/immigrants called over by friends or relatives to home nations.