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Enquiry by the Japanese Government?
June 20, 2008 by anuj
In reply to a question put in the Parliament by Shri H. V. Kamath, on the 29th September, 1955, our Prime Minister was pleased to state, "In a matter of this kind, the only enquiry, that is to say, satisfactory enquiry, that can be made is by the Japanese Government. The matter is in Japan, the whole thing is there. We cannot impose ourselves or an Enquiry Committee on the Japanese Government. Of course, if they choose to enquire we will gladly co-operate and give such help as we can. But we cannot simply enquire into their territory and more specially also when all the possible witnesses are probably either Japanese Government officials or others connected with that Government"... "And as I said, the initiative must come from the Japanese Government in this matter. If it comes naturally we shall give them such help as we can".
These statements are also quite clear and definite. Though the incident is alleged to have taken place in August, 1945, no enquiry was made by the Japanese Government during the last eleven years nor has any initiative or suggestion come from that quarter up to the end of September, 1955. It is really puzzling to persons, who have little knowledge of international affairs, but are possessed with the usual amount of common sense to realise that an enquiry as to whether Netaji is dead or not, should be the duty of the Japanese Government and not of the Indian Government, but, in the course of the next few months, the common sense view was eventually accepted in preference to the other and our Government on its own initiative formed a Committee for making an enquiry, which, it had only recently said, was not at all necessary. It imposed this Committee on the Government of Japan by deputing it to hold its sittings in their territory and for examining their nationals there. As stated once before, a pressing necessity must have arisen for a sudden change in a long-standing plan and conviction.