Japanize

English

Alternative forms

• japanize, Japanise, japanise, Japonize, japonize, Japonise, japonise

Etymology

Japan +‎ -ize

Verb

Japanize (third-person singular simple present Japanizes, present participle Japanizing, simple past and past participle Japanized)

1. (transitive) To nipponize.
   • 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.

Related terms

• Japanese

Translations

to Nipponize

• Bulgarian: японизи́рам impf (japonizíram)
• German: japanisieren
• Portuguese: japonizar (pt)
• Vietnamese: Nhật hóa, Nhật Bản hóa
• Volapük: Yapänön (vo)