Courtesy Prof Priyadarshi Mukherjee - Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Contemporary Anecdotes, Reminiscences and Wartime Reportage
"Subhas Babu was taken to Manchuria by the Japanese because it is due to Subhas babu that the neutrality pact between Russia and Japan was kept intact in spite of Japan remaining in Axis Bloc and Russia declaring war against Japan one week before Japan's surrender. The surrender of Japan was an arranged affair, to avoid Anglo American entry into Manchuria. the military might of the Japanese land, Navy, and air to a very great extent had been transferred to Manchuria long before the surrender. The war ended in Sep 1945. An Asiatic Liberation Army was formed by Netaji and the Japanese. The Chinese under the leadership of Mao, Burmese, Indo Chinese, Malaya, Indonesians, Filipinos, Siamese, all had joined the army with the assistance of the Russian Government. The army started fighting in Jan 1946 in China. This was reported as a Communist revolt."