Definition of "Japanolatry"

Japanolatry

noun
uncountable
1. An admiration for Japan or items that reflect Japanese culture.
  Quotations
  THESE three books, each in its own manner and degree, are excellent examples of the Japanolatry characteristic of this rococo age.
  1895, The Athenaeum, page 249
  Mr . Norman is not free from the prevalent Japanolatry . At p. 360 (e.g) Japan did not provoke the late war; at p. 376 she is dubbed a "first class military power"; and at p. 377, one of her buglers blows, apparently for a long time (with a bullet in his chest), till breath fails — which anyone can tell would be an immediate result.
  1895, Asian Review, page 218
  The beauty of a Japanese garden is a step to take, and it is a real step, quite as far apart from the vulgar and uneducated Japanolatry of some years since as from the cold contempt into which more recent taste seems to be reacting.
  1912, GC & HTJ. - Volumes 51-52, page 330
  Japanolatry in the West coincided with victory in the Sino-Japanese War, and, ten years later, the defeat of Russia.
  1967, Geoffrey Bownas, From Japanology to Japanese Studies
  For twenty years his taste confined itself to the fashionable families that married well with Louis XV furniture and to the Japanese wares then in vogue as a result of the decorative rage in France known as Japanolatry.
  1981, Pearl Violette Metzelthin, Ruth Reichl, Gourmet - Volume 41, Issues 1-6
2. (more specifically) A belief in the superiority of Japanese business practices and management style.
  Quotations
  Finally, the complex and multi-dimensional character of any performance gap can be explored further by introducing cash flow per vehicle produced as a third performance measure; this series shows the limits of Japanolatry because, on this measure, average car companies in Japan as well as America have real problems.
  1994, Karel Williams, Cars: Analysis, History, Cases, page 216
  Let me take an example from a recent American bestseller, which is intended, it seems clear, as a counterblast to all the Japanolatry now running riot through American business schools.
  2013, Ronald Dore, Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues
  We have attempted to confront each of these broader issues elsewhere, in work which questions the exaggerated and uncritical Japanolatry of much Western social science (Williams et al., 1991, 1992).
  2016, Anthony J. Berry, Jane Broadbent, David T. Otley, Management Control: Theories, Issues and Practices, page 222