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nisei         
  • The children of these Japanese-Brazilian (''Nipo-brasileiros'') immigrants would be called ''Nisei''.
SECOND GENERATION OF JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS
Nisei Japanese Americans; Neisei; Nisei Veteran; 二世; American Nisei
['ni:se?, ni:'se?]
¦ noun (plural same or niseis) N. Amer. an American or Canadian whose parents immigrated from Japan. Compare with issei and sansei.
Origin
1940s: from Japanese, lit. 'second generation'.
Nisei         
  • The children of these Japanese-Brazilian (''Nipo-brasileiros'') immigrants would be called ''Nisei''.
SECOND GENERATION OF JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS
Nisei Japanese Americans; Neisei; Nisei Veteran; 二世; American Nisei
is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese 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.
Nisei Baseball Research Project         
NON-PROFIT-ORGANIZATION
Nisei baseball research project; NBRP
The Nisei Baseball Research Project (NBRP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization documenting, preserving and exhibiting history of Japanese American baseball. It was founded by Kerry Yo Nakagawa, the author of Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball.

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Nisei
is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese 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.
Examples of use of nisei
1. An estimated 30 to 40 percent of fieldworkers elected not to go to work Monday, said Manuel Cunha, president of the Nisei Farmers League.
2. Jordan Maldonado, 14, of the Fresno area, learned about the experience of her great–aunt Harriet Shirakawa Ishibashi through the state‘s California Nisei High School Diploma Project.
3. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, blacks, Jews, Native Americans and Japanese Nisei served in the armed services in World War II, often with distinction and often at the cost of their lives.
4. "You always hear the argument that if we just paid decent wages and made these jobs open to legal Americans that the jobs would be filled," says Cunha, president of the Nisei Farmers League.
5. "As children, it takes a while to for you to see your parents had some kind of life," she said. ___ On the Net÷ California Nisei High School Diploma Project÷ http÷//www.canisei.org