Meaning of Japanolatry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An admiration for Japan or items that reflect Japanese culture.
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2. A belief in the superiority of Japanese business practices and management style.
   uncountable

Examples

“THESE three books, each in its own manner and degree, are excellent examples of the Japanolatry characteristic of this rococo age.”

“Mr . Norman is not free from the prevalent Japanolatry . At p. 360 (e.g) Japan did not provoke the late war; at p. 376 she is dubbed a "first class military power"; and at p. 377, one of her buglers blows, apparently for a long time (with a bullet in his chest), till breath fails — which anyone can tell would be an immediate result.”

“The beauty of a Japanese garden is a step to take, and it is a real step, quite as far apart from the vulgar and uneducated Japanolatry of some years since as from the cold contempt into which more recent taste seems to be reacting.”

“Japanolatry in the West coincided with victory in the Sino-Japanese War, and, ten years later, the defeat of Russia.”

“For twenty years his taste confined itself to the fashionable families that married well with Louis XV furniture and to the Japanese wares then in vogue as a result of the decorative rage in France known as Japanolatry.”

“Finally, the complex and multi-dimensional character of any performance gap can be explored further by introducing cash flow per vehicle produced as a third performance measure; this series shows the limits of Japanolatry because, on this measure, average car companies in Japan as well as America have real problems.”

“Let me take an example from a recent American bestseller, which is intended, it seems clear, as a counterblast to all the Japanolatry now running riot through American business schools.”

“We have attempted to confront each of these broader issues elsewhere, in work which questions the exaggerated and uncritical Japanolatry of much Western social science (Williams et al., 1991, 1992).”

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