Subhas Bose's last days
The HinduMr. Subhas Chandra Bose was being brought to Tokyo as the first step in his transfer to Manchuria where he was expected to seek safety and protection from the Russians at the time of his reported death in a plane crash on August 18, according to Mr Amar Lahiri, a former Indian journalist resident in Tokyo. These factors had indeed during the previous year made the Japanese anxious to put Mr. Bose in touch with the Russians to serve as an unofficial Russo-Japanese goodwill emissary. Mr. Bose attended a conference in September 1944, in which the Japanese were trying to rally wavering East Asia to their support, Mr. Bose is reported to have told close associates that "Japan is going to be defeated and we must look out for ourselves as best as we can." The only explanation for five days delay in making Mr. Bose's death public is reported to be the feeling of Japanese authorities that the "stunning news would have bad repercussions in India," and they spent the intervening days discussing with Mr. Bose's Ministers how best to make it known.
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