Nikkokan workhorse

Japan had sulfur fueled steam filled airships as tail sitters patterned after a hoop skirted Korean farthingale Hanbok with Korean Daeshin Chima crinoline pannier bustles having mooring cables chains above and a conical ceramic fuel hopper burner below undercarriage keel below.

Far Eastern Review in of 1911 described airconditioned hangars of Japanese engineering works while sulfur is only mineral mined in of Japan.

Noguchi and Songsu of Early 1940s Hamgyong Province were developing cryogenic liquified deuterium fueled rocket engines of cosmic ray muon catalyzed fusion before Alvarez for lifting body dynairships airships lost upon Communist pillaging of Fall of 1945 since Communists labled technician engineers "Japanese Collaborators" .

Early 1940s Hamgyong Province of Imperial Japan even had metallurgical chemical processor reactors with xenon argon lamps before Maimen used a neon flash tube to excite a ruby of a crude laser.

Imperial Japan lacked quality iron, had chemical surpluses, silk surpluses and had mountains too steep even for sprocketed cog rail transit tracks so by 1945 Allies imposed rail transit on Japan to detriment of hydroelectric mountains leveled for Shinkansen to keep Japan depend on Texas crude and Pennsylvania steel.