"Opposite" of `和製英語`

Question

Is there an "opposite" of 和製英語 (meaning Japanese words/phrases invented by English speakers)? Maybe like {英・米・欧?}製日本語? Because I always see/hear Japanese words in English and they drive me nuts!

The biggest one is when people pronounce 酒 as サキ. Another one I saw on a local Japanese restaurant. They have Monday night "Izakai" (イザカイ) nights (I don't know what this means -- maybe cheap drinks and appetizers?). Apparently, some English speaker heard 居【い】酒【ざか】屋【や】 and just decided to make a cool-sounding English abbreviation of it (which is really weird considering the owner is Japanese).

So is there some set word to describe this?

Answer 1

(すごく古い質問ですが、偶然見つけたので)

Although the number is small, there are some "英製和語" (an English word of Japanese-origin that has gained a significantly different meaning from the original Japanese word):

• Tycoon: 大君【たいくん】 in Japanese is a dated word for shogun, not a businessperson.
• Hibachi: Japanese 火鉢【ひばち】 is a small device primarily for heating a room. 鉄板焼き is never called 火鉢.
• Satsuma: 薩摩【さつま】 is the old name of Kagoshima Prefecture. That fruit is always みかん in Japanese.
• Hentai: 変態【へんたい】 is a "pervert" in Japanese, not a genre of anime/comic.
• Futon: Western-style futon is probably a kind of ソファーベッド in Japanese.
• Banzai: 万歳【ばんざい】 itself never means "suicide" or "reckless death/kill" in Japanese, and 万歳する can mean quite the opposite, "to surrender/give up". However "Banzai charge/attack" is well recognized by Japanese people as the western name of (神風)特攻.
• Kombucha: IMO this is the king of 英製和語; Japanese 昆布茶【こんぶちゃ】 is completely different. I really wonder why this happened in the 21st century...

The following words have not changed in their essential meanings, but they are still used in fairly different ways:

• Kaizen: 改善【かいぜん】 in Japanese simply means "improvement", and it usually does not refer specifically to a certain kind of business philosophy as described in English Wikipedia.
• Kanji: 漢字 in Japanese includes all "Han" characters used in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (aka CJK ideographs).
• Ecchi: This is a soft word ("has sexual overtone", "suggestive") in English, but is explicit in Japanese. エッチな本 is a direct word that refers to a porn book.

I've made this list purely via internet search, so please correct me if some of these do not reflect the actual usage in English.

Answer 2

和製英語 means “a Japanese word which looks like a loanword from English but is actually made up in Japan,” and I think that you are looking for a word or a phrase which means “an English word which looks like a loanword from Japanese but is actually made up in the English-speaking community.” I do not think that there is a term which concisely describes this notion, in either Japanese or English. See Jesse Good’s answer and comments for some suggestions.

This is not the primary point of your question, but I do not think that “sake” /ˈsɑːki/ is analogous to 和製英語. English words typically do not have /e/ at the end, and it is natural to change it to /i/ to make it easy to pronounce. I think that claiming that word “sake” was made up in the English-speaking community is analogous to claiming that, say, word フットボール /ɸɯtːobo↓oɹɯ/ was made up in Japan. If we called フットボール a 和製英語 because of the difference in pronunciations, then most loanwords from English to Japanese would be called 和製英語.

Answer 3

I have often used [洋製日本語]{ようせいにほんご} as an opposite of 和製英語. During a Japanese class during my study abroad program my professor was giving us a list of 和製英語. I asked her if she knew of any 洋製日本語, and she responded that the only one she could think of was "futon".

Here is another example of the term being used. It lists Japanese words that have become part of the English language (e.g. shogun, tsunami, kamikaze, sake).

I haven't seen this word in any dictionaries, and I doubt that it is a real word. It's not really a concept that exists in Japanese since it pertains to English vocabulary (just as we don't have a word for 和製英語 in English). But 洋製日本語 is a nice concise one-word way to say it, and most native speakers should understand what it means.

Answer 4

Well, yes, that would be 英製和語. In written form, it should be understandable. However, if you said this in a conversation, somebody might not understand you, so perhaps the following would be better:

英語になった日本語

日本語から英語に入った借用語 // From the wikipedia article

Although, I don't think there is a general term since this phenomenon would only be well understood by people who know Japanese and have lived in English speaking countries.

EDIT

Taking the comments into account, I think the following might be the most accurate:

アメリカ製日本語, イギリス製日本語, etc. depending on the country of origin

However, like I said above, there isn't a common term for this.