Minh was captured and later had only a single tooth that remained from the torture he had suffered at the hands of the Kempeitai ( Japanese military police ).

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.

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

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

The Kempeitai was established in 1881 by a decree called the, literally " articles concerning gendarmes ".

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.

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

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.

The Kempeitai was responsible for the following:

A full dress uniform comprising a red kepi, gold and red waist sash, dark blue tunic and trousers with black facings was authorised for officers of the Kempeitai to wear on ceremonial occasions until 1942.

* The Kempeitai was divided into:

According to Onishi Satoru, the Kempeitai officer in charge of the Jalan Besar screening centre, Kempeitai commander Oishi Masayuki was instructed by the chief of staff, Suzuki Sosaku, at Keluang, Johor, to prepare for a purge following the capture of Singapore.

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

According to the diary of the Singapore garrison commander, Major General Kawamura Saburo, the total number reported to him as killed by the various Kempeitai section commanders on 23 February was five thousand.

Unit 516 ( 第五一六部隊 ) was a top secret Japanese chemical weapons facility, operated by the Kempeitai, in Qiqihar, Manchukuo.

It was operated by the Kempeitai, the Japanese military police.

Chua told the Kempeitai what he knew when he was interrogated.

Lim was taken to the Kempeitai headquarters for interrogation and he refused to provide the Japanese with any information about Force 136 despite being subjected to severe torture.

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

In May 1944, Phillips was apprehended by Japanese authorities ( the Kempeitai ) after one of the messengers she used to contact the POWs at Cabanatuan was captured, interrogated and killed.

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.

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

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.

** 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

**** Kempeitai ( Imperial Japanese Gendarmerie )

* Kempeitai native section ( Japanese / Manchu and others units )

* Kempeitai native branch ( Japanese / Mongol members )

* Kempeitai native section ( Japanese / Chinese units )

* Kempeitai branches in area ( Japanese / native units )

* Kempeitai ( Imperial Japanese Gendarmerie )

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.

Gen. Yamashita instructed the Syonan garrison to cooperate with the Syonan Kempeitai, the Japanese military police to " punish hostile Chinese severely ".

The Japanese Army organized the Kempeitai ( military police service ).

* additional information respect at Japanese Nationalist groups, Kempeitai, Kwantung Army, Group 371 and other relationed topics

The Japanese secret police ( Kempeitai ) responded by torturing and beheading any suspect, which in general did not deter the Moluccans.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.