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The Kempeitai (Japanese: 憲兵隊, Hepburn: Kenpeitai, or Gendarmerie) was the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The organization also shared civilian secret police that specialized clandestine and covert operation, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, HUMINT, interrogate suspects who may be allied soldiers, spies or resistance movement, maintain security of prisoner of ...
The Kempeitai East District Branch was the headquarters of the Kempeitai, the Japanese military police, during the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945. It was located at the old YMCA building, at the present site of Singapore's YMCA Building on Stamford Road .
The Tsugaru dialect is reputed to be so divergent from standard Japanese for those who are not native speakers, that even people living in the same prefecture may have trouble understanding it. [ 1 ] [ note 1 ] In 1988, fans of the Tsugaru dialect proclaimed October 23 to be Tsugaru Dialect Day ( 津軽弁の日 , Tsugaru-ben no hi ) .
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Following the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in 1942, work at SIT came to a standstill with all its senior officers as prisoners-of-war, with a large number of the subordinate staff, however, worked for the Japanese administration. [1] The Kenpeitai came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War in Tokyo.
JMdict (Japanese–Multilingual Dictionary) is a large machine-readable multilingual Japanese dictionary. As of March 2023, it contains Japanese – English translations for around 199,000 entries, representing 282,000 unique headword-reading combinations.
dictionary of modern Japanese history from 1848 to 1975, 12,000 entries Nihon Kokugo Daijiten: 1972–1976, 2000–2002: largest Japanese language dictionary, 20-volume and 14-volume editions, 503,000 entries Nihongo Daijiten: 1989, 1995: Tadao Umesao's popular color-illustrated Japanese dictionary, 2 editions Nippo Jisho: 1603
The Tokkeitai (特警隊, short for 特別警察隊, Tokubetsu Keisatsutai, "Special Police Corps", or Naval Secret Police) was the Imperial Japanese Navy's military police, equivalent to the Imperial Japanese Army's Kempeitai.