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.

According to United States Army TM-E 30-480, there were over 36, 000 regular members of the Kempeitai at the end of the war ; this did not include the many ethnic " auxiliaries ".

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.

Troops supplemented the Kempeitai and were considered part of the organization but were limited to the rank of Shocho ( Sergeant Major ).

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.

Under Lieutenant-Colonel Oishi's command were 200 regular Kempeitai officers and another 1000 auxiliaries who were mostly young and rough peasant soldiers.

* 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.

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

Upon capture they were interrogated for information by members of the Kempeitai, before being bayoneted and buried in a shallow grave.

Besides, the Kempeitai established a network of informers around the island to help them identify those who were anti-Japanese.

These informers were well-paid by the Kempeitai and had no fear of being arrested.

After three years of war and deprivation, the city was deep in filth, many of the population had fled to escape the Kempeitai ( Japanese military police ) and those remaining were in rags.

However, certain individuals in Malaya were strong supporters of the Japanese, and were actively involved in the notorious Kempeitai " mopping up " operations and other atrocities.

* Kempeitai, Imperial Japan's Military Police.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

They included General Hideki Tōjō, chief of Kempeitai and leader of Kwantung Army ; Yosuke Matsuoka, who served as president of the ( South Manchuria Railway Company ) and Foreign Affairs minister ; and Naoki Hoshino, an army ideologist who organized the government and political structure of Manchukuo.

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 ).

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.

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

**** 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 )

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.

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.

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.

Both the Army and Navy Intelligence Services and the Kempeitai launched investigations.

* About Japanese Nationalist groups, Kempeitai, Kwantung Army, Group 371 and other relationed topics

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 ).