Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Battle of Imphal-Kohima 1944
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 4
Abstract
A new political development took place in East Asia after the fall of Malaya, Singapore and Burma which brought the Japanese military leaders and the Indian leaders in the region together. This development saw the birth of the Indian National Army (INA) which collaborated with the military government of Japan with the intention to free India from colonial rule. Subsequently, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the INA launched a combined campaign in Northeast India in 1944. The objective of this joint arm operation against British-India during the Second World War was to safeguard Japan‟s “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”, especially Burma on the one side and on the other, to pave way for the INA to penetrate into the plains of India to stir anti-British uprisings for the liberation of the country. There existed an imminent possibility of merging Imphal and Kohima (if not the whole of India), as the frontier limit of the Co-Prosperity Sphere in the West, had the Japanese won the battles of Imphal and Kohima. The British troops fought some of the hardest land battles of the Second World War at Imphal and Kohima. The Japanese 15th Army and Bose‟s INA were defeated by the British 14th Army at Imphal and Kohima after months of heavy battles.
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Kezhangulie Metha
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