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rest, Bose boarded a small Japanese combat aircraft on his way to To-
kyo. The plane made several stops in Penang, Saigon, Manila, Taipei,
and Hamamatsu, eventually arriving in the Japanese cap ital in mid-
May. Arrangements had been made for Bose to stay at the Imperial
Hotel, designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, just
across the moat from the Imperial Palace. He checked in under the as-
sumed Japanese name “Matsuda”—but the days of having to pretend
to be Ziauddin, Mazzotta, or Matsuda were soon to be left behind. In
less than a month, Indians would once again hear his familiar voice:
“This is Subhas Chandra Bose speaking to his countrymen in East
Asia.”^88