Japanophobia

English

Etymology

From Japano- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

Japanophobia (uncountable)

1. A fear or hate of Japan and Japanese people or culture.

   Synonym: Nipponophobia

   Antonyms: Japanophilia, Nipponophilia

   • 1906, Edward Albert Bell, These meddlesome attorneys:

     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, ...

   • 1999, Jagdish Bhagwati et.al., Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements:

     This would require discarding the extreme Japanophobia that characterises the so-called “revisionists” who are really “regressionists” twice over.

Related terms

• Japanophobe
• Japanophobic

Translations

the fear of Japan or Japanese

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反日 (zh) (fǎn-Rì), 反日情感 (fǎn-Rì qínggǎn), 反日主義／反日主义 (fǎn-Rì zhǔyì)

• Finnish: japanofobia
• French: japonophobie (fr) f
• German: Japanophobie f
• Japanese: 反日感情 (はんにちかんじょう, han-Nichi kanjō), 反日 (ja) (はんにち, han-Nichi)
• Russian: японофо́бия (ru) f (japonofóbija)