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.

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.

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

The Political Department refers to the political and ideological section of the Kempeitai military police of pre-Pacific War Japan.

** 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

He was recalled to Japan shortly thereafter and appointed head of the Kempeitai, in the Kantō region.

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.

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.

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.

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

The building was occupied by the Kempeitai as its headquarters during the war years.

* 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.

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.

In terms of government, the Sirian Empire is reminiscent of fascist states that existed in the Second World War ; they frequently employ a much-feared secret police force named the Kaitempi in an obvious anagram of the Japanese Kempeitai, or Kaimina Tempiti, they censor much of their media, and they actively seek to quell any opposition to the government or the war through the use of violence and intimidation.

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.

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.

* Kempeitai, Imperial Japan's Military Police.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Author David Kaufman asserts that one of Day's costars, actor Louis Jourdan, maintained that Day herself disliked her husband, but Day's public statements regarding Melcher appear to contradict that assertion.

In a region marked by cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity, a succession of Italian governors maintained a notable degree of unity and public order.

The Flivver was not a flying car at all, but it did get press attention at the time, exciting the public that they would have a mass produced affordable airplane product that would be made, marketed, sold, and maintained just like an automobile.

Other main public roads are maintained by the Bundesländer ( states ), called Landesstraße ( country road ) or Staatsstraße ( state road ).

Peasant leaders supervised the fields and ditches and grazing rights, maintained public order and morals, and supported a village court which handled minor offenses.

In his capacity as Gauleiter of Berlin, and thus as de facto ruler of the capital ( although there was still officially an Oberbürgermeister and city council ), Goebbels maintained constant pressure on the city ’ s large Jewish community, forcing them out of business and professional life and placing obstacles in the way of their being able to live normal lives, such as banning them from public transport and city facilities.

A library is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, a corporation, or a private individual.

Promoted to the grade of colonel ( aqid ) after assuming power, Gaddafi maintained a ceiling on the grade level of his officer corps in keeping with his desire to avoid the ostentatious public image that the generals of the monarchy had conveyed.

The state has maintained its early commitment to public education.

Some are maintained as media and public relations exercises.

Moxie at one time maintained about two dozen of them, and they appeared in parades and other public functions.

Since 1990, the NTSB has maintained a Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, in which it highlights those recommendations that would provide the most significant — and sometimes immediate — benefit to the traveling public.

These highways are on public land and are maintained by the government.

The list of proprietary and public vector formats is maintained in the main article.

* Roads: Many of the main roads in the District are public roads maintained by the District, while minor roads and roads dead-ending at attractions are private roads maintained by Disney ; in addition, state-maintained Interstate 4 and U. S. Highway 192 pass through the District, as does part of the right-of-way of County Road 535 ( formerly State Road 535 ).

These discussions led to unofficial contacts with the British Northern Ireland Office under the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Brooke, and with the government of the Republic under Charles Haughey – although both governments maintained in public that they would not negotiate with terrorists.

Religion maintained a major role but public school religious education changed from drill in the Lutheran catechism to biblical-ethical studies.

A Magistrate maintained law and order in his county, registered the populace for taxation, mobilized commoners for annual corvée duties, repaired schools and supervised public works.

During the first three years after the end of the war ( 1945 – 1948 ), however, literature maintained a certain degree of freedom, although the strengthening of the extreme left gradually pushed out of the public sphere first the Catholic authors ( Deml, Durych, Čep, Zahradníček ), then the moderate Communists.

She maintained an air of self-assured calm throughout all her public engagements in the years after the war, a period marked by civil unrest over social conditions, Irish independence and Indian nationalism.

During his first year in office, Callaghan started what has since become known as ' The Great Debate ', when he spoke at Ruskin College, Oxford about the ' legitimate concerns ' of a public about education as it took place in the nation's maintained schools.

The road retains the status of a public highway maintained by Westminster City Council.

The public tribunals, however, despite their characterization as undemocratic by the GBA, were maintained.

* 1939 – Texaco becomes one of the first oil companies to introduce a " Registered Rest Room " program to ensure that restroom facilities at all Texaco stations nationwide maintained a standard level of cleanliness to the motoring public.