“The story of Mr. Rash Behari Bose forms a vital part of India’s struggle for independence, and the victory which was finally achieved was in no small measure due to his organizational skill and wonderful spirit of sacrifice.

If Netaji came out in the fight as Garibaldi of the movement, Rash Behari’s part in the drama was more than that of a Mazzini”-
(Thakin Nu, ex-Prime Minister of Myanmar)

Facing a certain death sentence if captured, Bose fled to Japan where he continued to serve the cause of Indian freedom. A regular writer on Indian affairs in Japanese publications of the time, his efforts were instrumental in persuading the

Japanese authorities to support the Indian independence movement. He also founded the Indian Independence League (the precursor of INA) before passing on the baton to Subhash Chandra Bose.

After living underground in Chandan Nagar (the town in Bengal he grew up in) for about an year, in April 1915, Bose set sail for Japan under the false identity of poet P N Thakur. He arrived at the port city of Kobe in June 1915, and made his way to Tokyo.

Here, he established contact with Pan-Asian leaders sympathetic to the Indian cause, including influential rightist politician, Mitsuru Toyama.

Such was the fear Bose inspired in the British that they hired detective agencies with the express purpose of tracking or assassinating him. They finally managed to trace the revolutionary to Tokyo and asked the Japanese government to extradite him to India.

At that time, Bose was living at the home of Toyama. This protected him from being immediately arrested by the Japanese police (the police were wary of raiding the house of a leader as influential as Toyama).

Using the opportunity provided by this brief delay&the help provided by his friends,he escaped to his new hideout in Shinjuku.Amid the tiny shops&narrow alleyways of this bustling locality he found shelter at the Nakamuraya bakery owned by the wealthy Soma family.

Aizo and Kotsuko Soma were supporters of the Indian cause and they hid Bose for many months in the basement of their quarters. Aware of the dangers of letting outsiders know about Bose’s whereabouts, the Somas were careful about entrusting his care only to family members.

Meanwhile, a British ship had fired at a Japanese merchant carrier and relations between the two countries had soured. As a result, the deportation order on Bose was withdrawn by the Japanese government.

Now that he was free to stay and move around in Japan, Bose asked Aizo and Kotsuko’s permission to marry their elder daughter, Toshiko, with whom he had fallen in love.They agreed to his proposal and the couple married in a simple ceremony in July 1918.

In 1925,at the age of 28,Toshiko passed away due to TB leaving behind 2 young children. 2yrs later, he decided to partner with his father-in-law to set up a small restaurant on top of the bakery that would sell Indian-style curry &rice.

All this while, Bose continued to work towards the independence of India. From founding the ‘Indian Club’ of Tokyo to spreading his ideas through writings and anti-British radio broadcasts, he worked tirelessly to rake in global support to end British colonial rule in India.

For instance, in a letter in The United States of India in July 1925, he strongly condemned the deployment of Sikh policemen in the Shanghai massacre. Highlighting it as another instance of colonial abuse of Indian manpower, he wrote:

“… So long as Britain has control over India, the lives and property of weaker nations are not safe, and peace can never reign in the world… The Indian independence therefore is not a question which concerns the Indians only; it is a question which concerns the whole world…”

He also keenly followed the development of the nationalist movements in India, especially of Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose. While he admired Gandhi’s ideas and spirit of sacrifice, he was far more impressed by the younger leader who he described as the “person of today”.

When WWII broke out and Singapore fell to Japan in 1942, there were around 32k Indian POW in Southeast Asia. Major Fujiwara (who was in charge of Singapore) had promised these Indian soldiers that he would offer them all the assistance in the fight against the British.

Bose left Tokyo and travelled to Bangkok to help them achieve their aim of liberating India with help from the Japanese. It was here that he founded the Indian Independence League to consolidate the revolutionary uprising against the British,

with INA being the military wing of the league. He also invited Indian representatives from Malaya, China, Japan and Thailand to join the struggle. In May 1943, he met Subhash Chandra Bose for the first time and conversed in fluent Bengali.

A month later, he transferred the leadership of Indian Independence League to his younger, charismatic namesake.

In 1944, Bose suffered a collapse of his lungs from which he never fully recovered. Hospitalised in Tokyo, he would spend his days listening to radio broadcasts of the progress of the INA, hoping to hear the news of liberation of his beloved motherland.

Sadly, he passed away in Tokyo in January 1945, two years before India became independent.

(Condition of his birth place)

His son died in WW2.
His daughter Tetsu Higuchi brought his ramains to India in 1959. He was also given a tribute by Dr Rajendra Prasad who was then the president of India.
Japanese Government honored Rash behari bose with ‘Second Order of the Merit of the Rising Sun’

His daughter Tetsu Higuchi brought his ramains to India in 1959. He was also given a tribute by Dr Rajendra Prasad who was then the president of India.
(As per the national archive documents)
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.99217/2015.99217.Rash-Behari-Basu-His-Struggle-For-Indias-Independence_djvu.txt

Rare video of his daughter
https://twitter.com/shirshendu8/status/1259744582209699840?s=09

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