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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Hariprobha Takeda<br />
| image = Uemon and Hariprabha Takeda.jpg<br />
| caption = Uemon and Hariprabha Takeda<br />
| birth_date = 1890<br />
| death_date = 1972<ref name="bij">{{cite news|title=A Bengali Iron Lady|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-226549|accessdate=14 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=17 March 2012|language=en}}</ref><br />
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]<ref name="bij">{{cite news|title=A Bengali Iron Lady|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-226549|accessdate=14 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=17 March 2012|language=en}}</ref><br />
| spouse = Wemon Takeda<br />
}}<br />
'''Hariprobha Takeda''' (1890-1972) also known as Hariprobha Basu Mallik was a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] woman who married a Japanese national. She lived in Japan and wrote a notable autobiography which was turned into a movie in Bangladesh.<ref name="bij">{{cite news|title=A Bengali Iron Lady|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-226549|accessdate=14 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=17 March 2012|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
[[File:Front page of the book of Bangla mahila Japan jatra.jpg|thumb|Front page of the book of Bangla mahila Japan jatra, 1915]]<br />
In 1907 Hariprobha married Wemon Takeda, a Japanese businessman residing in [[Dhaka]], [[East Bengal]].<ref name="bij" /> He manufactured soaps in Bulbul soap factory. Hariprobha moved to [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] in 1912. She published ''Bongo Mohilar Japan Jatra'' (A Bengali Lady's Visit to Japan), which detailed her travels and experiences there. She settled permanently in Japan in 1941.<ref name="bij" /><br />
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== World War II ==<br />
[[File:Hariprobha Takeda with Subhas Chandra Bose.jpg|thumb|Hariprobha Takeda, second from right in the front row. The middle man is of course [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]]]<br />
She worked for the [[Japanese imperial army]] broadcasting messages/news for the Bengali [[Indian National Army]] led [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] from 1944–1945. The Indian National Army was allied with Japan during [[World War II]]. During the war her husband fell ill. She travelled to work at the dead of night to avoid allied bombing of Tokyo. She wrote another book about the effect of the war on the Japanese people. She was aided in her broadcasts by [[Rash Behari Bose]]. She moved to [[Jalpaiguri]], West Bengal, after her husband's death.<ref name="bij" /><ref>{{cite book|last1=Deb|first1=Chitra|title=Women of The Tagore Household|date=2010|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=9789352141876|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HvU6CwAAQBAJ&dq=Hariprabha+Takeda&pg=PT142|accessdate=14 November 2017|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
Hariprobha died in 1972 in Shambhunath Pandit Hospital, [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]. [[Tanvir Mokammel]] have made a documentary based on her book and her life called ''Japani Bodhu'' (''The Japanese Wife'').<ref name="bij" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Bhattacharjee|first1=CS|title=Filmmaker to relive Hariprabha on screen|url=http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/filmmaker-to-relive-hariprabha-on-screen/14/34491/|website=thesundayindian.com|publisher=The Sunday Indian|accessdate=14 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Woman who penned Bengali book on Japan captured on celluloid|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-woman-who-penned-bengali-book-on-japan-captured-on-celluloid-1685182|accessdate=14 November 2017|work=Daily News & Analysis|date=6 May 2012}}</ref><br />
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