Nipponize

• Nipponise (non-Oxford British spelling)
• nipponize

From Nippon +‎ -ize.

Nipponize (third-person singular simple present Nipponizes, present participle Nipponizing, simple past and past participle Nipponized)

2. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become Japanese, as to customs, culture, or style.

   Synonyms: Japanize, Japanicize

   • 1913 January, “A Great Crime Against Justice”, in Doremus Scudder, editor, The Friend, volume LXXI, number 1, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii: Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, page 4, column 2:

     Christianity should be Japan’s greatest ally in Nipponizing its new territory.

   • 2012, “Introduction to the Focus Edition”, in William Shakespeare, edited by Kenneth S Rothwell, The Tragedy of King Lear (New Kittredge Shakespeare), Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Publishing/R Pullins Company, →ISBN, page xxii:

     The movie “Nipponizes” King Lear within the protocols of the formalistic patterns of traditional “Noh” drama.

   • 2017, Paul Theroux, “Best Man”, in Mother Land, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Eamon Dolan Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 361:

     He invited me for a meal. The table was set with plates and chopsticks, little dishes of soy sauce and wasabi paste; bigger platters of sushi, sashimi, tempura, and dumplings; bowls of miso soup. “I have been thoroughly Nipponized,” Floyd said.

4. (transitive) To convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script.
6. (transitive) To translate into Japanese.