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	Kempeitai
		Gradually, the Kempeitai's role was expanded to the regulation of public order and conduct, mostly in regard to communists, a category that included anti-war groups.
		This was not the case when the Kempeitai also became the de facto police force of territory occupied by Japanese military.
		For this reason, many equate Kempeitai with the Gestapo of Nazi Germany; hence the mistaken belief that it was the Japanese secret police.
	www.1bx.com /en/Kempeitai.htm (793 words)

	Kempeitai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		'''''Kempeitai''''' (&25010;&20853;&38538;, "Law Soldier Regiment") was the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army.
		The kempeitai could Arrest any civilian, except for the most senior government officials, and they could Arrest all military personnel that they outranked and up to three ranks higher than them.
		The Kempeitai also used criminals and outlaws as Law enforcers with torture commonly used to extract confessions.The Japanese placed heavy emphasis on physical violence to maintain discipline with even the most minor infractions being dealt with immediately.
	kempeitai.mindbit.com (746 words)

	Kempetai
		The Kempeitai were the Japanese military police who took over the control of the local police.
		Even after the Sook Ching Operation, the Kempeitai continued to seek out subversive elements, making use of informers, spies and generally keeping their ears and eyes wide open for anti-Japanese activities such as listening to the BBC or assisting communist guerillas.
		The activities of the Kempeitai generated the horrible atmosphere of suspicion and fear.
	library.thinkquest.org /C002071/kempetai.html (316 words)

	Untitled Document
		Subsequently, communications with Jesselton were cut, and on 21st may 1945 the Miri Kempeitai came under command of the Divisional Commander at Brunei.
		Accused 2 was responsible for all the administrative arrangements for the execution: he gathered and assembled the members of the Kempeitai section who were to carry out the execution, ordered the removal of the prisoners from their cells, bound their hands and led them to the place of execution.
		However, he added that it was unthinkable that the Miri Kempeitai could have any such fear of being massacred by the 28 local civilians whom they had arrested.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~warcrime/Japan/singapore/Trials/kasai.htm (2321 words)

	Miscellaneous Japanese Militaria
		Kempeitai is usually translated as “military police”, but this is somewhat misleading.
		kempeitai certainly did that if necessary, but they were also in charge of thought control, economic control and suppressing any dissent on the part of people in the areas the Japanese had occupied.
		As such they were often in the forefront of committing attrocities against local people and often used their role in economic control to profit from corruption, counterfeiting and other nefarious activities.
	members.shaw.ca /nambuworld2/misc.htm (776 words)

	Singapore Cases - Yoshino
		He was interrogated by the same N.C.O. who alleges that shortly afterwards he received an order from Captain HARADA the head of the Kempeitai to execute this man. No trial of any kind had been held.
		Mukai stating that owing to the fact that his staff of 2 Kempeitai Privates were ill and that he himself was tired.
		On the arrival of the accused LEE ON was taken by Mukai and the accused to a place about 700 metres from the Kempeitai where a grave had been prepared.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~warcrime/Japan/singapore/Trials/Yoshino.htm (1370 words)

	Kempeitai from Books.co.uk
		The Kempeitai, Japan's secret military police and counter-espionage service, was one of the most dreaded organizations of World War II.
		Through sheer horror tactics the Kempeitai tortured and degraded their victims to demonstrate their superiority over reluctant nations and break the human spirit.
		With the use of first-hand accounts from both Kempeitai members and victims, the ruthless nature of this much-feared organization is brought to life.
	www.books.co.uk /kempeitai/0750928069.html (226 words)

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		Guo remarried in 1950 after learning that her husband had been killed by the Japanese military, but was only informed in 1986, by a curator of the Chinese museum of Japan's bacteriological warfare in Pingfan, that he had been used for experiments by Unit 731.
		This was determined from a document of the Mudanjiang kempeitai that was obtained from the archives of the KGB.
		Dated 1942 and stamped "Top Secret," it is from the Mudanjiang kempeitai and titled "Report on Conditions." Zhu is listed under "anti-subversive roundup." The bottom of the page is marked "special consignments." The lawyers for Guo presented the court with a copy of the document on Wednesday.
	cwis.livjm.ac.uk /lng/teaching/japanese/HISTORY/warcrim1.txt (1096 words)

	Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police
		The Kempeitai were one of the instruments which was used to keep the populace in place and keep them from doing anything but support the war effort.
		The Kempeitai were the key administrators in the use of “comfort women” and prostitutes.
		The Kempeitai were also involved in getting subjects for the biological warfare experiments of Unit 731.
	www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/japan/kem.html (887 words)

	Singapore Paranormal Investigators
		The kempeitai and their informants decided who was innocent and who was not, sometimes by look and by instinct.
		The kempeitai officer in charge of the Telok Kurau English School concentration point, off Telok Kurau Road, between Joo Chiat Place and Lorong J, developed perhaps the shortest of all screening short-cuts.
		While the dreaded kempeitai enforced all screening programmes within the heavily populated areas of downtown Singapore, responsibility for these activities to the north and east of the island fell to units of the Konoye Imperial Guards.
	www.spi.com.sg /spi/spi_files/massacre/main.htm (1427 words)

	Peace Preservation Law
		Over time, the Kempeitai's role was expanded to the regulation of public order and conduct, mostly in regard to communists, a category that included anti-war groups.
		The Kempeitai in wartime were also a very feared organization.
		Those caught were dealt with harshly -- the Kempeitai cut their heads off and displayed them in public.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/peacepres.html (1203 words)

	The Garret Tree: Waterboarding is a war crime
		The informers told the kempeitai that the internees had a secret transmitter with which they used to contact the British army.
		If the kempeitai was dissatisfied with the answers or if they thought the prisoner was lying, they would use torture.
		The torture and imprisonment of dozens of innocent civilians and the inhuman treatment was used because the kempeitai could not conceive that regular force commandos, today’s equivalent of Special Forces, could attack Singapore.
	robinrowland.com /garret/2005/11/waterboarding-is-war-crime.html (1811 words)

	KEMPEITAI: Japan's Dreaded Military Police
		While the German Gestapo is still a by-word for brutality and ruthlessness, the Japanese equivalent, the Kempeitai, is virtually unknown in the west.
		The Kempeitai employed local police and security forces in the areas they occupied to help them hunt down real or imagined enemies of the Japanese empire.
		This book is a complete history of the Kempeitai, covering their origins, training, tactics, structure and philosophy.
	www.naval-military-press.com /catalogue/military-books/8190.htm (295 words)

	1935 Japanese endnotes from Gareth Jones A Manchukuo Incident including interviews with Osumi, Matsuoka, Araki ...
		Raymond Lamont-Brown’s book Kempeitai, The Dreaded Japanese Secret Police states that: “He made no effort to cover up his contempt and growing animosity for the Japanese militaristic state”.
		The foreign community very much doubted this and was fully convinced that he had been thrown out of the window to conceal damage done to his body by the Japanese secret police.
		Günther Stein was a known socialist, but Gareth was probably unaware that he had become a committed Communist during his time spent as a correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Moscow before 1933.
	colley.co.uk /garethjones/articles_far_east/endnotes.htm (2406 words)

	Kempei Tai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police:Lamont-Brown, Raymond:0750915668:eCampus.com
		Like the Nazis' SS, Japan's Kempeitai, or secret military police and counter-espionage service, was feared and hated in Japanese-occupied territories.
		The book examines the origins of the Kempeitai in the Japanese military police and Secret Service, its growth, its recruitment and training, its structure and duties, military philosophy, and influence.
		Through the first-hand accounts of former Kempeitai members and their victims, the author brings to life the brutal nature of the much feared organization, tracing its fate and that of individual members who were assimilated into postwar Japanese economic and political life.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0750915668 (202 words)

	G.R. No. L-1621
		It appears that from October 1943 until near the end of 1944, defendant used to twice a week with Sergeants Yane Guihara and Fugisawa and was given a kilo of sugar by Sergeant Watanabe in the headquarters of the Kempeitai.
		On 8 May 1944, the defendant brought Fausto Centeno to the headquarters of the Kempeitai and there asked about his car, the former saying that the Kempeitai needed it for their use.
		The appearance of the defendant and the two Japanese soldiers at Almazan's house, the arrest of Macario and his return home the following morning are part of count 14 and are established by the testimony of Macario Almazan and his mother Jacinta.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1951/mar1951/gr_l-1621_1951.html (901 words)

	Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police
		Officially, it was only the army's police force, but it was feared by Japanese civilians, by the captive populations of Asia, and especially by prisoners of war.
		As a result, this is mostly a collection of anecdotes and unrelated themes--whatever Lamont-Brown turned up, he shaped the book around that, or so it seems.
		So it fails both as a serious history of the Kempeitai and as an indictment of the Japanese way of making war.
	www.warbirdforum.com /kempei.htm (335 words)

	Captives of Empire: The Japanese Internment of Allied Civilians in China and Hong Kong, 1941-1945 - Captives of Empire: ...
		Internees were to suffer further casualties when the camp was accidentally bombed by USAAF bombers in January, 1945.
		Originally built for a wealthy Chinese family, the compound consisted of two large buildings and was utilized by the marines until their departure from the city in November 1941.
		Internees who survived the torture and degradations meted out by the kempeitai in Bridge House were then often sent to this camp; those interned here were also liable to be hauled off to Bridge House for further interrogation sessions.
	www.captives-of-empire.com /wst_page5.php (2679 words)

	Jo Britt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If the Japanese Army didn't suspect Britt, the Kempeitai, Japanese secret police headquartered only two blocks from her home, did.
		When she learned the Kempeitai were looking for her, Britt fled to Baguio.
		When they wouldn't talk, "The Filipinos were handed shovels and made to dig their own graves.
	www.nwfdailynews.com /freedom/Jo_Britt/jo_britt.html (1506 words)

	Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Keywords: book review, history, Kempeitai, Japan, Japanese, Rikugun, military police, World War II 1939-1945, East Southeastern Asia, prisoners and prisons.
		This book is being considered for further review, but we do not yet have a copy in hand.
		Author: Lamont-Brown, Raymond, 1939- Title: Kempeitai : Japan's dreaded military police / Raymond Lamont-Brown.
	www.weyrich.com /book_reviews/kempeitai.html (74 words)

	Amazon.com: Kempeitai : Japan's Dreaded Military Police: Books: Raymond Lamont-Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This could have been a brilliant book - the subject certainly has spectacular prospects - but it was not to be.
		Fifty years on there are few survivors of the legions of the Kempeitai, and even fewer survivors of their victims.
		Instead we are treated a poor collection of anecdotes which lack suffcient breadth and analysis to be evidence of anything other than the incidents they describe, not the Kempeitai as a whole, nor their operations.
	www.amazon.com /Kempeitai-Japans-Dreaded-Military-Police/dp/0750915668 (1256 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features /2005/03/20/
		Several of them enter into the story as Japanese-American Kempeitai officer Tadashi Morimura investigates the "accidental" death of Honolulu Advertiser editor Lorrin Thurston.
		The reporter, Yay Panlilio, half-Caucasian and half-Filipino, and raised on the mainland, dislikes Morimura and his boss, Kempeitai commander John Burns, on principle, but soon she and Morimura are working together in trying to figure out who killed Thurston and why.
		Their romantic relationship is a thriller genre clich, but Blaine develops it in a reasonably realistic manner that seems to fit what we know of the characters.
	starbulletin.com /2005/03/20/features/story4.html (740 words)

	Me and World War II, page 4
		Nobody was around to suspect so the Japanese Military Police or "Kempeitai" rounded up eighteen of the town's young men and held them as hostages.
		The threat the Kempeitai made was that if no one came forward to admit to responsibility for the death, which the Kempeitai called "murder", all of the hostages were to be executed.
		As a fan of mystery stories which came in the new "Pocket Books" or serialized in the Colliers or Saturday Evening Post Magazines, the little boy who was myself could not figure out why there was no murder investigation involving policemen, inspectors and detectives, of which those stories had made me familiar.
	www.webspawner.com /users/ramcyberv4/index.html (664 words)

	"Sook Ching" - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		You mentioned in the header post that the Kempeitai rounded up by random, hundreds of Chinese and Malays for execution.
		Soon after the fall of Singapore, Lieutenant Colonel Masayuki Oishi, commander of No. 2 Field Kempeitai, took over the offices of the Supreme Court building.
		Singapore was broken up into sectors, each placed under the control of a Kempeitai officer.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=1527 (2916 words)

	Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police - Raymond Lamont-Brown
		Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police - Raymond Lamont-Brown
		Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police by Raymond Lamont-Brown
		Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket.
	www.biblio.com /books/56653784.html (62 words)

	Singapore Rhetorica
		World War II would see the Japanese militarists take control over much of East and Southeast Asia, including Singapore (Leasor 98).
		The Japanese Occupation of Singapore—the city at that time renamed “Syonan,” meaning "light of the South" (from February 1942 to August 1945)—was characterized by the Kempeitai (the Japanese security squad) and its harsh treatment of the ethnic Chinese.
		The Chinese community had raised money and remitted it to China to help with the resistance effort there.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /students/ktmatts/repurposing/ww2.html (293 words)

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