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English
Etymology
From Japan + -ize.
Verb
Japanize (third-person singular simple present Japanizes, present participle Japanizing, simple past and past participle Japanized)
- (transitive) To Nipponize.
1919 July 29, “Is This To Remain White Man's Land?”, in Seattle Star:Multiplying five times as rapidly as the whites, the Japs must someday―unless the problem is met now―absolutely control this Coast. Just as Hawaii and the Sacramento valley have been Japanized, so will the state of Washington.
2003 December 3, Mark Schilling, “The ideal Xmas present?”, in The Japan Times:His latest, Tokyo Godfathers, may sound like a gangster film, but rather it's Kon's attempt to Japanize a Western tradition that goes back to Charles Dickens and beyond: the heartwarming holiday story.
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