japonize

present singular third person japonizes · participle present japonizing · participle past japonized · past japonized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Japanize.

   This information is then quietly and clearly absorbed into Japanese culture and 'japonized'.

   2001, Simon Fraser, Toyojirō Hida, Contemporary Japanese Jewellery

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   On the whole, these activities seem quite chaotic, but they all are started along the same line of principle, i.e., to japonize everything of economic value in China that possibly can japonized.

   1938, The China Journal - Volume 29, page 98

   Ironically, the current term is airon, a japonized version of the English word, “iron” (Ikeda 2015, 19; cf. 90–91).

   2019, Uriah Y. Kim, Seung Ai Yang, T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics

present singular third person Japonizes · participle present Japonizing · participle past Japonized · past Japonized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Japanize.

   The principle is to Japonize as much as possible the natives, whose minds are impregnated with Chinese thought, and who are pro-Chinese in nearly everything.

   1903, Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1902, page 356

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   But if China deserts us and if they Japonize the Chinese, you gentlemen are going to think that the gates of hell have been left ajar. If they ever succeed in Japonizing the Chinese and the Hindus, the white race is through.

   1943, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, page 215

   A delegation sent to Europe, headed by Hirobumi Ito, found the Prussian oligarchic government best suited to their needs, and, with certain modifications to Japonize it, the German form was adopted as a model in the establishment of the Japanese Constitution of 1889.

   1945, Robert Oleson Ballou, Shinto, the Unconquered Enemy, page 67

   Before the effects of the counteroffensive of the Americans and the allies in the Southwest Pacific were felt in the Philippines, the Japanese seemed to be in a hurry to Japonize the Philippines.

   1979, José E. Romero, Not So Long Ago, page 168