Japan Asia Airways

{{Short description|Defunct airline of Japan and Taiwan (1975–2008)}}

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| airline = Japan Asia Airways
{{lang|ja|日本アジア航空}}
日本亞細亞航空

| logo = JAA company logos.svg

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| IATA = EG

| ICAO = JAA

| callsign = ASIA

| parent = Japan Airlines Corp.

| founded = {{start date|1975|08|08|df=yes}}

| ceased = {{end date|2008|03|31|df=yes}}
{{small|(re-integrated into Japan Airlines)}}

| headquarters = Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

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| Nagoya–Centrair

| Osaka–Kansai

| Taipei–Taoyuan

| Tokyo–Narita}}

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| alliance = {{nowrap|Oneworld {{small|(affiliate; 2007–2008)}}}}

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{{nihongo|Japan Asia Airways, Co., Ltd.|日本アジア航空株式会社|Nihon Ajia Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha}} (JAA) was a subsidiary of Japan Airlines (JAL) founded due to the legal status of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and territory disputes with the People's Republic of China in order to allow Japan Airlines to continue flying to Taiwan from Japan. JAA was headquartered in the Japan Airlines Building in Shinagawa, Tokyo.[https://books.google.com/books?id=LclscNCTz9oC&dq=%22Japan+Asia+Airways%22++JAL+Bldg+in+Shinagawa%2C+Tokyo&pg=PA644 The Far East and Australasia 2003], Psychology Press, 2002, page 644

JAA was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of JAL on 8 August 1975 and given the responsibility of providing air links between Japan and Taiwan, formerly offered by JAL.[https://books.google.com/books?id=y0opAQAAIAAJ&q=%228th+August+1975%22 Air Pictorial], Volume 38, Air League of the British Empire, 1976, page 357

Direct flights between Japan and Taiwan had been suspended since April 1975, following the signing of a civil air treaty with the People's Republic of China.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aF0vAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FdsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3605%2C2601571 Flights resumed], UPI, Beaver County Times, May 12, 1976, page 41 However, following negotiations between the Interchange Association, Japan and Taiwan's Association of East Asian Relations, JAA was created and direct flights to Taipei were resumed.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P0QaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eiQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6945%2C7081786 Diplomatic Ambiguity Looms In Taiwan Links], New York Times News Service, The Times-News, December 21, 1978, page 12 JAA began flights to Taipei on September 15, 1975.[https://books.google.com/books?id=kyaririZoLUC&dq=%22Japan+Asia+Airways%22+1975&pg=PA68 The Foreign Trade of China: Policy, Law, and Practice], Gene T. Hsiao, University of California Press, 1977, page 68

Similar arrangements were later made by Air France, British Airways, KLM, Qantas and Swissair for their services to Taiwan.

In 1985, JAA was headquartered in the Yurakucho-Denki Building in Chiyoda, Tokyo, in a facility separate from the JAL headquarters in the Tokyo Building in Chiyoda."World Airline Directory." Flight International. March 30, 1985. [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1985/1985%20-%200948.html 88]." Retrieved on June 17, 2009.

Following JAL's privatization, the new 2007 Japan-Taiwan air transport agreement led JAL to liquidate JAA as a cost-saving measure and to normalize Japan-Taiwan flight status. JAA flew its last flights on March 31, 2008, and all flights were operated by JAL from April 1, 2008.[https://www.jal.com/en/history/history/jal/age_04-10.html History of JAL]