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The Kempeitai was formed as a semi-autonomous unit on 4 January 1881 by order of the Meiji Council of State. [2] Its brief covered military discipline, law and order, intelligence and subversion as well as policing thoughts in the civilian population. [3] Their political influence increased when Hideki Tojo became the Vice-Minister of War in ...
The village was then burned to the ground. An estimated 600 to 1,000 villagers died in the massacre. [1] The Japanese kidnapped 10 female survivors who agreed to act as "spies", albeit it is believed that they were instead used as comfort women. Two of them escaped, but the others disappeared. [1] [2]
Twenty-one Kenpeitai were accused of torturing 57 internees, resulting in the deaths of 15. [4] On 15 April 1946, after a hearing lasting 21 days, Sumida was one of eight sentenced to death by hanging. Three others received life imprisonment, one a sentence of fifteen years, and two were given prison terms of eight years. Seven were acquitted.
In July 1945, 15 U.S. airmen were captured and interrogated by the Kempeitai near Hiroshima; 12 died in the U.S. atomic bombing of the city on August 6, of which two were possibly clubbed to death at Hiroshima Castle by the Kempeitai, and two were possibly stoned to death by civilians. [16] The Kempeitai organized regular and violent reprisals ...
On 18 February 1942, three days after the surrender of Singapore, the Kempeitai launched a month-long purge of 'anti-Japanese elements' in an operation named Sook Ching. All Chinese men between 18 and 50 years old, and in some cases women and children, were ordered to report to these temporary registration centers for interrogation and ...
Nagase was born in 1918 in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan and learned English at an American Methodist college in Tokyo. [2] He joined the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and became an interpreter for the Kempeitai at the construction of the Burma Railway, known for its brutal conditions leading to the deaths of over 12,000 Allied prisoners of war and 90,000 Asian labourers or romusha.
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From 1943 to 1944 he served as Deputy Commander of the Kempeitai, and from 1944 to 1945 as Chief of Staff of the 19th Army. [ 1 ] Mori was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in 1945, and on 7 April, Mori became commander of the 1st Imperial Guards Division , the prestigious division assigned direct responsibility for protection of the ...