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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“When your fathers fixed the place of GOD,
And settled all the inconvenient saints,
Apostles, martyrs, in a kind of Whipsnade,
Then they could set about imperial expansion
Accompanied by industrial development.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.”
—Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter. Lewis Milestone. Yin Chu Ling, The Purple Heart (1944)