Day: Aug 19, 2023

I know that the Japanese Military possessed Korean, Taiwanese and Manchurian Military Units (Units that reflected Japan’s colonial presence throughout Asia) – but as far as I know – the Japanese Military never recruited any White, Black or Arab soldiers. This just goes to show how ‘racist’ the Japanese Imperial System actually was – with even ‘Chinese’ derived Okinawan Units being deemed ‘Japanese’. When the Imperial Japanese captured large numbers of ethnic Indian POWs serving in the Indian British Army – around 10,000 ‘volunteered’ to join the so-called ‘Indian National Army’ Commanded by Chandra Bose – and armed by the Japanese. Chandra Bose was a despicable racist, a good friend of Hitler (although he never quite saw eye to eye with Hitler – as Hitler thought India needed another 100-years of British Colonial dominance to bring the poverty-stricken country into modernity), and an ardent anti-Soviet and anti-Socialist. His ‘INA’ proved virtually useless on the battlefield – with the majority of Indian POWs remaining loyal to the Indian British Army (a separate entity to the ‘British Army’).