"First generation of immigrants from Japan". Immigrants to where? I'm not saying it makes a difference to knowing the answer, just to show a little awareness of the rest of the world.
I think this comment is funny, even it's not correct.
As you probably know (but going to mention it anyhow) one of the many compounding tragedies of the concentration camps is that 2nd (nissei) and 3rd (sansei) native-born Americans of Japanese descent were also imprisoned by the US government.
PS We Koreans also use the word 이세 /i-se/ because both Korean and Japanese use Sino numbers and the same hanja/kanji characters for issei and i-se
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei
I struggled with Iseult and Isolde, being Celtic...
But Israel in the Mediterranean almost sank me.
As you probably know (but going to mention it anyhow) one of the many compounding tragedies of the concentration camps is that 2nd (nissei) and 3rd (sansei) native-born Americans of Japanese descent were also imprisoned by the US government.
PS We Koreans also use the word 이세 /i-se/ because both Korean and Japanese use Sino numbers and the same hanja/kanji characters for issei and i-se
"First generation of immigrants from Japan" -> "First generation of immigrants from Japan to the USA"