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Tokyo
Subhas Chandra Bose reached Tokyo by submarine and aircraft in 1943 after leaving Germany, secured Japanese backing from Tojo for an Indian force raised from prisoners of war, and went on to Singapore to take command of the Indian National Army.
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Worth knowing
He died in a plane crash at Taipei in August 1945, and his ashes are held at the Renkōji temple in Tokyo, where they remain — three Indian commissions of inquiry have reached different conclusions and the family has never agreed to their return.
Connections (2)
- Life routeSubhas Chandra Bose
Bose left Germany by submarine in February 1943, transferred to a Japanese boat off Madagascar, and reached Tokyo in June, where he secured Tojo's backing for an Indian force raised from prisoners of war. He went on to Singapore to take command of the Indian National Army and proclaim the Azad Hind government. He died in a plane crash at Taipei in August 1945, and his ashes are still at the Renkoji temple in Tokyo, three inquiries and eighty years later.
- Life routeRabindranath Tagore
Tagore went to Japan five times between 1916 and 1929 and was received as a sage until he began, in lectures at Tokyo and Osaka, to attack Japanese nationalism and imperialism directly — telling an audience in the middle of its own imperial expansion that the nation was an organised self-interest. The lectures were published as Nationalism, the welcome cooled sharply, and he never had the same standing in Japan again.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Tokyo”. Trial records and the Home Political files, National Archives of India; Bhagat Singh, Why I Am an Atheist.
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