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IJA en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Imperial Japanese Army, the army of Imperial Japan, predecessor of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, usually in reference to WWII.
    • The Japanese, with their respect for hierarchy, while compelling all the lower ranks to work, made no such demands on the officers, who stayed in [the POW] camp and, bizarrely, were paid by the IJA a minuscule salary. 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 239: