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Ryan Higa happens to be Japanese American. His name IS NOT Nigahiga! If you were a real fan you would know he is Japanese American, and was named Ryan Higa.
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he happens to be A Japanese-American so he probably speaks English, and a little Mandarin
Nikkei is generically a person of Japanese heritage. In Japanese, you'd say "Nikkei America-Jin" for Japanese American.
See website: Japanese-American internment
Seward made the Japanese-American Treaty.
There has not been an American and Japanese period.
Which american?
No. He is an American of Japanese ancestry (Japanese-American), originally from the State of Hawaii.
There are several differences between Japanese Google and American Google. The main difference is that Japanese Google is written in Japanese, where as American Google is written in English.
His nationality is American (United States of America, from the State of Hawaii), of Japanese ancestry, which makes his ethnicity Japanese-American.