Nipponophile

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[edit] Noun

Nipponophile (plural Nipponophiles)

1. One who loves Japan or Japanese culture.
2. An advocate of Japanese thought or culture.

[edit] Quotations

• 1946 (2005), William Illsey Atkinson, Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small

Call me a Nipponophile - a secret admirer of Japan, a worshiper from afar. [1]

• 1997, Errol C. Friedberg, Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms

... postwar scientific meetings held in that country, Strauss had become something of a Nipponophile and had returned to Japan for a sabbatical in 1958. [2]

• 2003, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants 2004

The place was actually set up by ac eques Nipponophile Englishman, but the kitchen staff are all Japanese and its Far Eastern credentials bear scrutiny... [3]