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)

    “There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)