Imperial Japanese Airways (大日本航空株式会社, Dai Nippon Kōkū Kabushiki Kaisha, sometimes Greater Japan Airlines or Greater Japan Airways?) was the national airline of the Empire of Japan before World War II, and was the forerunner of the modern Japan Airlines.
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“If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)
“I am a lantern—
My head a moon
Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)