japanophobia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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

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.

Japanophobe Japanophobic

Nipponophobia

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What does japanophobia mean?

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

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