What does japonise mean?
Japonise means Alternative form of Japanize..
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Alternative form of Japanize..
But Japanese political predominance, and constant intercourse during three centuries, have almost japonised the island.
Not methods alone are borrowed wholesale, but even plots, the proper names which occur in the stories being slightly japonised, as Shimizu for Smith, Risa for Eliza, and details being altered so as to suit Japanese social conditions.
But japonise it into Benkei and the difficulty vanishes, to say nothing of the apparent prop given to the story of Yoshitsune's visit to Yezo, by the fact of the name of his celebrated henchman Benkei thus figuring in the geography of the island.
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Japonise means Alternative form of Japanize..
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But Japanese political predominance, and constant intercourse during three centuries, have almost japonised the island.
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