/ɲ̟ihõ̞ɰ̃sɨɡo̞i/JAPONCA → TR
Tanım
•“Nihon sugoi” (a genre of Japanese media, or a cultural phenomenon, characterized by enthusiastic self‐praise of Japan’s culture, technology or society)
Etimoloji
Compound of 日本 (Nihon, “Japan”) + スゴイ (sugoi, “amazing”), the katakana form of 凄い (sugoi). The choice of katakana serves to demarcate the phrase as a cultural buzzword rather than a literal description. The term was popularized in sociological discourse around 2014–2016 by researcher Hayakawa Tadanori, who used it to analyse the genealogy of Japanese self‐praise from the Imperial era (1925–1945)…