v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] trans. To make Japanese. Hence Japanization.
1890. Miss Duncan, Soc. Depart., 157. Foreigners are becoming so Japanised.
1894. Chicago Advance, 5 April. ‘In order to Christianize Japan, we must Japanize Christianity,’ is a prevalent sentiment in that country.
1895. Curr. Hist., V. 301. Such an alliance could amount to nothing less than the Japanization of China.
