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Japanophobia en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English Japano- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English Japanophobia From Japano- + -phobia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A fear or hate of Japan and Japanese people or culture.
    • This would require discarding the extreme Japanophobia that characterises the so-called “revisionists” who are really “regressionists” twice over. 1999, Jagdish Bhagwati et.al., Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements:
    • Perhaps this is one of the reasons of their Japanophobia. But if Japan became the ally of France, all this fear and suspicion of Japan would disappear, ... 1906, Edward Albert Bell, These meddlesome attorneys:

Antonyms

Japanophilia · Nipponophilia

Relateds

Japanophobic · Japanophobe

Synonyms

Nipponophobia

Translations (11)

ja 反日感情 (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · cmn 反日 (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · fr japonophobie (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · fi japanofobia (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · cmn 反日情感 (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · de Japanophobie (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · ja 反日 (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · fr nippophobie (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · cmn 反日主義 /反日主义 (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · ru японофо́бия (the fear of Japan or Japanese) · cmn 仇日 (the fear of Japan or Japanese)