Meaning of japonize | Babel Free

Examples

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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