nipponize

Verb capitalized: Nipponize

Nipponize (third-person singular simple present Nipponizes, present participle Nipponizing, simple past and past participle Nipponized)

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become Japanese, as to customs, culture, or style.
   • Christianity should be Japan’s greatest ally in Nipponizing its new territory.1913 January, “A Great Crime Against Justice”, in Doremus Scudder, editor, The Friend, volume LXXI, number 1, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii: Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, page 4, column 2
   • The movie “Nipponizes” King Lear within the protocols of the formalistic patterns of traditional “Noh” drama.2012, “Introduction to the Focus Edition”, in William Shakespeare, edited by Kenneth S[prague] Rothwell, The Tragedy of King Lear (New Kittredge Shakespeare), Newburyport, Mass.: Focus...

   Synonyms:

   Japanize, Japanicize

2. (transitive) To convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script.
3. (transitive) To translate into Japanese.