yellow peril

capitalized derogatory sometimes uncountable usually

(derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.

Japanese Meaning

西洋諸国に対し、東アジア人（特に中国人や日本人）が、大きな人口や非西洋的な文化、もしくは西洋に対する敵対心に基づくとされる脅威をもたらすという、軽蔑的かつ人種差別的な表現

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Historians have documented how the yellow peril was used to justify discriminatory immigration laws and racist violence.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

歴史家たちは、東アジア人が西洋にとって脅威であるという人種差別的な考えが、差別的な移民法や人種差別的暴力を正当化するためにどのように用いられたかを記録している。

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The thought that the Japanese will get control of 500,000,000 Chinamen, arm them, and kill off the white men is so absurd that a child would laugh at it.

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(derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) East Asian nations or peoples, conceived as threatening.

It was such a journey as I had taken once before, early in our pursuit of the genius of the Yellow Peril; but this was infinitely more terrible; for now we were utterly in Fu-Manchu’s power.

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yellow perils

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