Japanize

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Jap·a·nize

 (jăp′ə-nīz′)
tr. & intr.v. Jap·a·nized, Jap·a·niz·ing, Jap·a·niz·es
To make or become Japanese in form, idiom, style, or character.

Jap′a·ni·za′tion (-nĭ-zā′shən) n.
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japanize

(ˈdʒæpəˌnaɪz) or

japanise

vb (tr)
to make Japanese
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Translations
japoniser
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I can think of no people more nationalistic than the Japanese, but they have Japanized many foreign terms.
Time Out's Top Koaysomboon observes, 'The screenplay has its flaws-it's way too 'Japanized' and the ending is predictable-but is thankfully overshadowed by [Teeradon's] surprisingly powerful performance.'
imported from Okinawa and changed by the master Funakoshi, both as for the techniques proper and for the initial names with Chinese resonance and Japanized afterwards.
Here visitors can enjoy a Japanized western cuisine for about 2000 yen.
Most local "Japanized" restaurants may not have what their Japanese counterparts have, and the menu is still based on what is available in the Philippines.
As a parallel, the Japanese Yasumasa Morimura japanized and globalized kahloienne images by appropriating and parodying Kahlo' portraits.
According to Indra, Mainali was "Japanized" as a result of his 18 years in Japan, including 15 years in prison.
Glimpsed in Ridley Scott's highly influential science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), the model of a "Japanized" future emerges definitively in William Gibson's two trilogies of the Eighties and Nineties.
Under the framework established by the government, Taiwan's painters had to become simultaneously Westernized and Japanized. At the same time, they had to cultivate their individuality and explore the hidden nature of their self-identity.
The language used by most of the characters, in both conversation and interior thought, is a kind of Japanized pidgin English (Christopher Palmer calls it "telegraphese" [123]) that often gives the impression that a character is speaking in aphorisms.
We hung around Ala Moana Shopping Center outside of Sears to chat up groups of pretty Japanese girls using a broken Japanese made up mostly of Japanized English words--"date-o" for date and "cute-o" for cute, for example--and a smattering of schoolyard Japanese, generally crude terms for body parts and body functions that always brought a giggle and the occasional invitation to lunch.
He discusses Japanized staatsmedizin as the prototype of colonial medicine in Taiwan, the chaotic beginning, revising staatsmedizin for the colony during the 1920s, and from prewar legacy to postwar legend during the 1930s and since.