IJA

See also: ija, Ija, Ịja, íja, -ija, and i'ja

English

Proper noun

IJA

1. (military) Initialism of Imperial Japanese Army, the army of Imperial Japan, predecessor of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, usually in reference to WWII.
   • 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 239:

     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.