Japanize

• japanize, Japanise, japanise, Japonize, japonize, Japonise, japonise

Japan +‎ -ize

Japanize (third-person singular simple present Japanizes, present participle Japanizing, simple past and past participle Japanized)

1. (transitive) To nipponize.
   • 2003 December 3, Mark Schilling, “The ideal Xmas present?”, in The Japan Times:

     His latest, Tokyo Godfathers, may sound like a gangster film, but rather it's Kon's attempt to Japanize a Western tradition that goes back to Charles Dickens and beyond: the heartwarming holiday story.

• Japanese