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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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