1943, during the Second World War Japanese occupation of Singapore. The Kenpeitai—Japanese military police—arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and...
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war. According to Onishi Satoru, the Kenpeitai officer in charge of the Jalan Besar screening centre, Kenpeitai commander Oishi Masayuki was instructed...
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Hotta Eri wrote that the Kenpeitai was ordered to "handle them with care", meaning no torture of the sort that the Kenpeitai normally employed in its...
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The Kempeitai East District Branch was the headquarters of the Kempeitai, the Japanese military police, during the Japanese occupation of Singapore from...
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Japan. As the civilian counterpart to the military police forces of the Kenpeitai (army) and of the Tokkeitai (navy), the Tokkō's functions were criminal...
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The Kenpeitai West District Branch was one of the branches of the Kenpeitai in Singapore besides the much noted Kenpeitai East District Branch during...
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interpreter and prison camp guard for the Imperial Japanese Army and the Kenpeitai political police. A Nisei (second-generation Japanese-Canadian), Kanao...
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men, the elderly and pregnant women, as well as those rounded up by the Kenpeitai military police for alleged "suspicious activities." Unit 731 staff included...
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the Far East, with hints of Casablanca intrigue and references to the Kenpeitai; so, to avoid legal difficulties, the name was changed to Gold Monkey...
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resistance groups. Eventually, some British soldiers were captured by the Kenpeitai and squeezed into 3-foot long bamboo baskets used for transporting pigs...
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the 8th and 9th centuries during the Golden Age of Islam. In Japan, the Kenpeitai existed from 1881 to 1945 and were described as secret police by the Australian...
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puppet state in the Philippines. Aguinaldo also played a key role in the Kenpeitai's campaign to suppress anti-Japanese resistance, urging guerilla fighters...
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exaggerated and paranoid fear that Soviet spies were everywhere.: 318 The Kenpeitai began to suspect in early 1943 that Rodzaevsky was in fact a Soviet agent...
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Filipino physician and guerilla sympathizer, Mencias was arrested by the Kenpeitai for his affiliation with the anti-Japanese forces. It is presumed that...
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that the Russian fascist gang who had killed Kaspé was working for the Kenpeitai, the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army, had become too strong...
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name of the old Philippine Constabulary during the Second Republic), the Kenpeitai (the Japanese military police), and the Makapili (Filipinos fighting for...
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Railway Military career Allegiance Empire of Japan Branch Imperial Japanese Army Rank Officer Unit Kenpeitai Battles/wars Second World War Burma Campaign...
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and Annam Nationalist Party), following nationalism, inspired by the Kenpeitai. Đại Việt National Socialist Party was founded by Nguyễn Xuân Tiếu, with...
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was an early figure in the Chinese Communist Party, and a spy for the Kenpeitai. Fan Qing joined the Chinese Society of Engineering (中华工学会) in 1925, and...
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such as the Jesselton uprising in British Borneo, were suppressed by the Kenpeitai. Much Chinese underground anti-Japanese activity in North Borneo was part...
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conditions and productivity, clashing with foremen, administrators, and the Kenpeitai military police. Ultimately his efforts to grant autonomy to the POWs...
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and European women and girls. The Kenpeitai established the comfort women program to control the problem. The Kenpeitai forced and coerced many interned...
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Kenpeitai officers searching Chinese men for weapons...
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the advice of the Japanese was welcome. Some of the Japanese were ex-Kenpeitai who were wanted for questioning by Allied authorities. Giap arranged for...
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also had a military secret police force within the IJA, known as the Kenpeitai, which resembled the Nazi Gestapo in its role in annexed and occupied...
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Germany Empire of Japan Russia Service branch Secret Service Bureau Kenpeitai Codename S.T.I. Operations Lockhart Plot D'Arcy Concession Zinoviev letter...
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judges examined case number 19, which involved 49 members of the Saigon Kenpeitai who were tried jointly. They were charged with sequestration with torture...
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conditions and productivity, clashing with foremen, administrators, and the Kenpeitai military police. Ultimately his efforts to grant autonomy to the POWs...
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Police Force, including Indians and Chinese, were recruited into the Kenpeitai police force. The Indian Legion (Legion Freies Indien, Indische Freiwilligen...
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