The Kempeitai (Japanese: 憲兵隊, Hepburn: Kenpeitai) was the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army. The organization also shared civilian secret...

1943, during the Second World War Japanese occupation of Singapore. The Kenpeitai—Japanese military police—arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and...

war. According to Onishi Satoru, the Kenpeitai officer in charge of the Jalan Besar screening centre, Kenpeitai commander Oishi Masayuki was instructed...

The prison also contained the headquarters of the Kenpeitai, the Japanese military police. The Kenpeitai tortured and executed prisoners there, who they...

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...

interpreter and prison camp guard for the Imperial Japanese Army and the Kenpeitai political police. A Nisei (second-generation Japanese-Canadian), Kanao...

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...

The Kenpeitai West District Branch was one of the branches of the Kenpeitai in Singapore besides the much noted Kenpeitai East District Branch during...

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...

formed resistance groups. Eventually, the soldiers were captured by the Kenpeitai, and squeezed into 3-foot long bamboo baskets used for transporting pigs...