Japanese Navy

Japanese Navy can refer to:

  • the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1947
  • the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 1947 – present

Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or navy:

    “I will be all things to you. Father, mother, husband, counselor, Japanese bartender.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)

    “The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)