You probably know that we borrowed the word “Typhoon” from Japanese. But I’ve been learning that we’ve actually borrowed quite a random assortment of words from Japanese.
For example, “honcho” from “head honcho” comes from the Japanese word 班長 (hanchou) which means “group leader/boss”. Apparently English speaking POWs in WWII were put into (quite brutal) workgroups by their Japanese captors and one Japanese word they never forgot was 班長.
I imagine many words we imported from Japanese were learned that way.