First-generation Japanese-American

The answer

NISEI

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Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• ISSEI (9 uses in xd)

Other clues for NISEI

Every other clue in this collection answered by NISEI, most used first.

• Japanese-American - used 85 times, most recently in 2025
• Second-generation Japanese-American - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Some Japanese-Americans - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• American-born Japanese - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• American of Japanese descent - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Child of Japanese immigrants - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Second-generation Japanese - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
• Certain Japanese-American - used 7 times, most recently in 2024

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