Nevertheless , given the Indian National Army 's ( INA ) overwhelming dependence on Japanese military support , he would have been in a weak position . Bose also seems to have ignored the appalling treatment meted out by the Japanese to the Asian inhabitants of the lands they conquered as part of the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity sphere , which included the forcible recruitment of labour from the overseas Indian population to build projects such as the Burma Railway , and massacres of Malayan Chinese in Singapore where he spent most of the war
appalling treatment
Japanese war crimes
Political views of Subhas Chandra Bose