**** Kempeitai ( Imperial Japanese Gendarmerie )

* Kempeitai ( Imperial Japanese Gendarmerie )

* Kempeitai, the Imperial Japanese secret police

* The Tokkeitai Navy military police units were part of the naval intelligence armed branch, with military police regular functions in naval installations and occupied territories ; they also worked with the Imperial Japanese Army's Kempeitai military police, the Keishi-chō civil police and Tokkō secret units in security and intelligence services.

The film opens with the massacre of prisoners of war on Palawan by the Kempeitai, the Imperial Japanese military's secret police ( though factually, it was committed by the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army ).

The Kempeitai were abhorred in Japan's mainland, too, especially during World War II when Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō, formerly the Commander of the Kempeitai of the Japanese Army in Manchuria from 1935 to 1937, used the Kempeitai extensively to make sure that everyone was loyal to the war.

1941 to August 1945 ), the building was used as the headquarters of the Kempeitai ( Military Police ).

******* Toranosuke Hashimoto: Commanding Officer, Manchu Secret Police, Hsinking, Manchuria ( as a branch of the Kempeitai intelligence unit in Manchukuo ); First Priest in Manchoukuan Shintoist Central Temple, Military Hachiman, Hsinking Shrine ; and National Foundation, a cultural organization in Manchukuo.

Military units involved were the Kempeitai, First Tachikawa Army Arsenal, Sagami Army Arsenal, and Yokosuka Naval Arsenal.

** Kesago Nakajima, Since 1921 relevant military intelligence chief, also from 1941 lead Japanese State Police among the Kempeitai operation inside Japan and Asia during wartimes

The Kempeitai prison was in Outram with branches in Stamford Road, Chinatown and the Central Police Station.

The Japanese Kempeitai, Tokkō, collaborationist Chinese police, and Chinese citizens in the service of the Japanese all worked to censor information, monitor any opposition, and torture enemies and dissenters.

After the coup attempt, Kita was arrested by the Kempeitai for complicity, tried by a closed military court, and executed.

Originally set up under the Kempeitai military police of the Empire of Japan, Unit 731 was taken over and commanded until the end of the war by General Shiro Ishii, an officer in the Kwantung Army.

Between 3, 000 and 12, 000 men, women, and children — from which around 600 every year were provided by the Kempeitai — were murdered during the human experimentation conducted by Unit 731 at the camp based in Pingfang alone, which does not include victims from other medical experimentation sites.

During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, Nathan worked for the Japanese Kempeitai as a translator.

The participants took a taxi to the police headquarters and surrendered themselves to the Kempeitai without a struggle.

He was trained in military officer school by the Japanese Kempeitai when Japan began using Cao Đài paramilitary troops.

In 1907, the Kempeitai was ordered to Korea where its main duty was legally defined as " preserving the ( Japanese army's ) peace ", although it also functioned as a military police for the Japanese army stationed there.

The Kempeitai maintained public order within Japan under the direction of the Interior Minister, and in the occupied territories under the direction of the Minister of War.

However, the Kempeitai had a Tokko branch of its own, and through it discharged the functions of a secret police.

When the Kempeitai arrested a civilian under the direction of the Justice Minister, the arrested person was nominally subject to civilian judicial proceedings.

As many foreign territories fell under the Japanese military occupation during the 1930s and the early 1940s, the Kempeitai recruited a large number of locals in those territories.

Taiwanese and Koreans were used extensively as auxiliaries to police the newly occupied territories in Southeast Asia, although the Kempeitai recruited French Indochinese ( especially, from among the Cao Dai religious sect ), Malays and others.

The Kempeitai may have trained Trinh Minh The, a Vietnamese nationalist and military leader.

The Kempeitai was disarmed and disbanded after the Japanese surrender in August 1945.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Kempeitai forged various connections with certain pre-war European intelligence services.

The Kempeitai maintained a headquarters in each relevant Area Army, commanded by a Shosho ( Major General ) with a Taisa ( Colonel ) as Executive Officer and comprising two or three field offices, commanded by a Chusa ( Lieutenant Colonel ) and with a Shosa ( Major ) as executive officer and each with approximately 375 personnel.

Kempeitai Auxiliary units consisting of regional ethnic forces were organized in occupied areas.

The Kempeitai had 315 officers and 6, 000 enlisted men by 1937.

Allies estimated that by the end of World War II, there were at least 7, 500 members of the Kempeitai, figuring in undercover personnel and so on.

A Kempeitai Army_ranks_of_the_Japanese_Empire_during_World_War_II # Enlisted_ranks | Sōchō uniform at the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence.

The term " Reichstag " also remains in use in the German language as the term for the parliaments of some foreign monarchies, such as Sweden's Riksdag and Japan's pre-war Imperial Diet.

* Prince Nagaya, Japan's Imperial prince

Starting in 1942, there was forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110, 000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing in the United States to housing facilities called " War Relocation Camps ", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110, 000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called " War Relocation Camps ," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Korean side of the river was heavily industrialized during Colonial Korea ( 1910 – 1945 ), and by 1945 almost 20 % of Imperial Japan's total industrial output originated in Korea.

Electric Boat gained a reputation for unscrupulous arms dealing in 1904-05, when it sold submarines to Japan's Imperial Japanese Navy and Russia's Imperial Russian Navy, who were then at war.

* Bergamini, David, " Japan's Imperial Conspiracy ," William Morrow, New York ; 1971.

There were at least two reasons for the speed of Japan's modernization: the employment of more than 3, 000 foreign experts ( called o-yatoi gaikokujin or ' hired foreigners ') in a variety of specialist fields such as teaching English, science, engineering, the army and navy, among others ; and the dispatch of many Japanese students overseas to Europe and America, based on the fifth and last article of the Charter Oath of 1868: ' Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world so as to strengthen the foundations of Imperial rule.

Marshal-General of the Navy Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō, OM, GCVO (（ 東郷 平八郎, 27 January 1848 – 30 May 1934 ), was a marshal-general ( Fleet Admiral ) in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes.

For the U. S., capturing the Philippines was a key strategic step in isolating Imperial Japan's military holdings in China and the Pacific theater.

However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian Government, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur.

A youth wing of the INA, composed of 45 Young Indians personally chosen by Bose and affectionately known as the Tokyo Boys, were also sent to Japan's Imperial Military Academy to train as fighter pilots.

Terauchi upheld Japan's obligations to the United Kingdom under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in World War I, dispatching ships from the Imperial Japanese Navy to the South Pacific.

In a memoir published in the mid-1950s, a Japanese-born Taiwanese businessman Tsai Chih-Kan, claimed that he had personally copied the " Plan " from the Imperial Library on the night of 20 June 1928, in a covert action assisted by several of Japan's leading pre-war politicians and officers who were opposed to Tanaka.

The new group included former Prime Ministers Mitsumasa Yonai, Nobuyuki Abe, and Konoe Fumimaro, all of whom supported Japan's aggressive foreign policy and the right-socialist ideals of Kingoro Hashimoto on creation of a Military Shogunate that would manage the Imperial affairs directly.

Imperial Japan's rapid industrialization and militarization under the slogan led to its emergence as a world power, eventually culminating in its membership in the Axis alliance and the conquest of a large part of the Asia-Pacific region.

It is the second oldest Japanese university, one of the highest ranked universities in Asia and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.

Japan's relations with Imperial Russia were also negotiated in Shimoda, and in 1855 the Treaty of Shimoda was signed at Chōraku-ji.

On 7 January 1989, at 07: 55 JST, the grand steward of Japan's Imperial Household Agency, Shōichi Fujimori, announced Emperor Shōwa's death, and revealed details about his cancer for the first time.

The IJN's pursuit of the " decisive battle " was such that it contributed to Imperial Japan's defeat in World War II, and so rendered obsolete the doctrine of the decisive battle between fleets, because of the development of the submarine and the aircraft carrier.

Kyoto: A Cultural Guide to Japan's Ancient Imperial City.

The final Zero Hour broadcast aired on or around August 12, 1945, three days after the second atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki and three days before Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allied forces and renounced the Imperial Mandate of Heaven.

On 10 November 1942, Toyoda became a member of the Supreme War Council, where he made a strong ( but mostly unsuccessful ) effort to increase funding and the capacity of Japan's industry toward naval aviation, over the opposition to the Army-dominated Imperial General Headquarters.

Imperial Japan's annexation of Korea eliminated Korean music from 1905 to 1945.