The Nisei Japanese (二世 pronounced Nee-say, lit. second generation) refer to the children of Issei Japanese emigrants. Usually they were born in the country to which the parents moved, but some may have been born in Japan, and moved as infants. See Nisei Japanese American for Nisei in the US. Their children are Sansei Japanese.
Unlike Chinese people, Japanese tend to regard second- or third-generation overseas Japanese as foreign people.[1] (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/17/international/asia/17ASIA.html?8hpib)
In American history, Nisei means specifically Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast, but not on Hawaii and not on the East Coast, who were interned during WW2 because the government feared that they would support Japan in the war.
Americans of Japanese ancestry living in the western United States, including the Nisei were, forcibly interned with their parents (the Issei Japanese Americans) and children (the Sansei Japanese Americans) during WWII.
The topic of Nisei (and not Japanese Americans per se) is part of the mandated high school history curriculum of many states, including New York State, New Jersey, and California.
Japanese Americans are a group of people who trace their ancestry to Japan or Okinawa and are residents and/or citizens of the United States.
Japanese Americans also have the oldest demographic structure of any ethnic group in the U.S.; in addition, in the younger generations, due to intermarriage with whites and other Asians, part-Japanese are more common than full Japanese, and it appears as if this physical assimilation will continue at a rapid rate.
Main article: Japanese American internment Jump to: navigation, search The Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, 62 percent of whom were United States citizens, from the west coast of the United States during World War II to hastily constructed housing facilities called...
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