Crossword clues for nisei
nisei
- Some second-generation Americans
- Japanese Americans
- Offspring of Japanese immigrants
- Some '40s internees
- Native-born American of Japanese ancestry
- American with Japanese parents
- American of Japanese parents
- American of Japanese heritage
- U. S. Japanese
- Some Americans of Japanese ancestry
- Some 1940s internees
- Japanese-American group
- Children of issei
- A child of Japanese immigrants
- U.S.-born Japanese
- Senator Daniel Inouye, for one
- Second-generation Japanese
- Second-generation Asian-American
- Offspring of Japanese emigrants
- Many 1940s internees
- Kids of Japanese immigrants
- Japanese who is U. S. born and bred
- Children of Japanese emigrants
- American with Japanese immigrant parents
- American of Japanese origin
- "Second generation" Japanese
- Second-generation Japanese-American
- Some Asian-Americans
- Japanese-American person
- Some Japanese descendants
- Some Japanese-Americans
- Some W.W. II internees
- Japanese immigrant's child
- American-born Japanese
- Child of Asian parents
- Sen. Daniel Inouye, for one
- Person of Japanese descent
- Second-generation Japanese in the U.S.
- Japanese-Americans
- Japanese born and raised in U.S.
- Nipponese born in Napa
- U.S. Japanese
- Japanese citizen of U.S.
- Issei's child
- Child of immigrant couple that is beginning to settle in after upheaval?
- Welcomed back by enemies, industrious Japanese American
- North American native that is wrong to be upset
- First-generation Japanese-American
- Child of Japanese immigrants
- Certain Japanese-American
- Children of Japanese immigrants
- American of Japanese descent
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"American born of Japanese parents," from Japanese ni- "second" + sei "generation." Use limited to U.S. West Coast until c.1942.
Wiktionary
n. an American or Canadian whose parents were Japanese immigrants
Wikipedia
"Nisei" is the ninth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . It was directed by David Nutter, and written by Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz and Howard Gordon. "Nisei" featured guest appearances by Steven Williams, Raymond J. Barry and Stephen McHattie. The episode helped explore the series' overarching mythology. "Nisei" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.8, being watched by 16.36 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received largely positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate the origins of an alien autopsy Mulder believes is real. The investigation uncovers Japanese involvement and sees Mulder smuggle himself onto a secret cargo train to find out more. "Nisei" is a two-part episode, with the plot continuing in the next episode, " 731".
Inspired by the atrocities committed by Unit 731, a Japanese research program during World War II, "Nisei" was originally intended to be a stand-alone mythology episode, but was lengthened into two separate parts. The episode featured several scenes that required stunt work, which David Duchovny performed himself. The episode's title refers to the term nisei, meaning the son or daughter of an Issei couple born outside Japan.
is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called ). The are considered the second generation; and the grandchildren of the Japanese-born immigrants are called or third generation. ( are Japanese for "one, two, three"; see Japanese numerals.)
Usage examples of "nisei".
Under a banner of American concerns: liberty, justice and free enterprise, the seditious Japs portrayed this democracy as a land of lynched Negroes and limited opportunities for coloreds, even though the Nisei were emerging as middle-class merchants when the war broke out.
It was the first and only time in the congress that one of the issei had stood up and trounced one of the nisei in public debate.
And then the troupe was instrumental in discovering and making famous what was later called the Odessa Group, a half-dozen young native playwrights as ferocious as Fugard, men and women who in play after play explored the wrenching problems of the new issei and nisei, and their painful assimilation into the areophany—a million little Romeos and Juliets, a million little blood knots cut or tied.
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.
But now with the new AIs, and a continuing stream of new immigrants speaking the full array of Terran languages, it looked like things might broaden back out again, as new nisei stayed with their primary languages and used AIs as their lingua franca instead of English.
Hiroko was mother to everyone in Zygote, but not really-only to Nirgal and Dao and six other of the sansei, and several of the nisei grownups as well.
A good many Bogdanovists, including Steve and Marian, had become Reds in the years since 2061, as had followers of the biologist Schnelling, and some radical Japanese nisei and sansei from Sabishii, and Arabs who wanted Mars to stay Arabian forever, and escaped prisoners from Korolyov, and so on.
Senzeni Na was in the hands of people who called themselves Booneans, though they were not associated with Jackie-they were issei, nisei, sansei, and yonsei, who had immediately named their mohole John Boone, and declared Thaumasia a "Dorsa Brevia Peaceful Neutral Place.
Hiroko was mother to everyone in Zygote, but not really—only to Nirgal and Dao and six other of the sansei, and several of the nisei grownups as well.
Senzeni Na was in the hands of people who called themselves Booneans, though they were not associated with Jackie—they were issei, nisei, sansei, and yonsei, who had immediately named their mohole John Boone, and declared Thaumasia a “Dorsa Brevia Peaceful Neutral Place.
Nisei, sansei, yonsei—whatever generation, they had been formed in large part by their Martian experience—areoformed, just as Hiroko had always foretold.
Nisei, sansei, yonsei-whatever generation, they had been formed in large part by their Martian experience-areoformed, just as Hiroko had always foretold.