The Tokyo Cadets or the Tokyo Boys, was the name given to the group of forty five youth recruits of the Indian National Army

Indian National Army

The Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance...

 who were sent to the Imperial Japanese Army Academy or Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Academy

Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Academy

The was the principal officer's training school for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force.-Superintendents:*Major General Hayashi Kinoshita：October 1 1937*Major General Shozo Teraguchi：July 1 1939*Lieutenant General Hayashi Kinoshita：September 15 1941...

 to train as fighter pilots in 1944 by Subhas Chandra Bose. The cadets were captured as Prisoners of War after Japan surrendered, but were released in 1946 after the end of the INA trials

INA trials

The INA trials or the Red Fort Trials refer to the courts martial of a number of officers of the Indian National Army between November 1945 and May 1946 variously for treason, torture, murder and abetment to murder....

. The cadets became Indian forces officers, Burma Navy officer, Pakistan force officer, private pilots and others. Some of them became general officers.

Sources

• Ayer, Subbier Appadurai, Unto Him a Witness: The Story of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in East Asia, Thacker, 1951
• The Contemporary, Society for Contemporary Studies, University of Michigan, v.14, 1970

Recommended reading

• BURMA to JAPAN with Azad Hind: A War Memoir (1941–1945) Ramesh Sakharam Benegal, Lancer Publishers
  Lancer Publishers & Distributors
  Lancer Publishers & Distributors is a publishing house founded in 1979 in India, specialising in military subjects.-History:On independence of India in 1947, most of the military literature available was from the western countries. The reason for this was that India had been under subjugation of...
  
  , New Delhi 2009 ISBN 978-192550111-4
• Bhargava M.L. Indian national army Tokyo cadets 1986. New Delhi
• Subhas Chandre Bose Academy

External links

• The list of the Tokyo Cadets Subhas Chandre Bose Academy (Japanese)