I Kikan

TheIwakuro Kikan,orI Kikan,was an intelligence mission and liaison office for theImperial Japanese ArmyandIndian National Armyduring theSecond World Warin theSouth-East Asian theatre.Headed byColonelHideo Iwakuro,it succeeded theF Kikanin liaising with theIndian Independence Leagueand the Indian National Army underCaptainMohan Singh.After the revival of the Indian National Army underSubhas Chandra Bose,theHikari Kikanreplaced theI Kikan.

References

• Lebra, Joyce C. (1971),Japanese trained armies in South-East Asia,New York,Columbia University Press,ISBN0-231-03995-6.
• Fay, Peter W. (1993),The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942-1945.,Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.,ISBN0-472-08342-2.