Kempeitai

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The Kempeitai was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, notorious for its brutal secret-police functions and widespread war crimes across occupied territories before and during World War II.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Kenpeitai 4
Japanese military police (Kempeitai) 2
Kempeitai canonical 2

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf military police organization
secret police
activeInConflict Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II
activeInRegion Japanese home islands
Korea under Japanese rule
Manchukuo
Taiwan under Japanese rule
occupied China
occupied Dutch East Indies
occupied Malaya
occupied Philippines
occupied Singapore
occupied Southeast Asia
allegedCrime enforcement of comfort women system
forced labor abuses
massacres of civilians
medical experimentation assistance
mistreatment of prisoners of war
summary executions
country Empire of Japan
linked to: Japan
disbanded 1945
disbandedBy Allied occupation authorities
function counterespionage
enforcing discipline within the Imperial Japanese Army
internal security in occupied territories
monitoring political dissent
languageOfName Japanese
nativeName 憲兵隊
notableFor brutal interrogation methods
political repression
suppression of resistance movements
torture of prisoners
war crimes
partOf Imperial Japanese Army
perception feared by civilian populations in occupied areas
notorious for brutality
relatedOrganization Imperial Japanese Navy Tokkeitai
Tokkō (Special Higher Police)
role counterinsurgency force
intelligence agency
military police
occupation security force
secret police
subordinateTo Imperial Japanese Army General Staff
timePeriod late 19th century to 1945
transliteration Kenpeitai
linked to: Kempeitai
triedFor war crimes in postwar tribunals

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Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Special Higher Police relatedTo Kempeitai
Japanese occupation security forces in Indonesia hasPart Kenpeitai
linked to: Kempeitai
Outram Road Prison area controlledBy Japanese military police (Kempeitai)
linked to: Kempeitai
Sook Ching planningAuthority Japanese military police (Kempeitai)
linked to: Kempeitai
Tokkō relatedTo Kempeitai
Kempeitai transliteration Kenpeitai
linked to: Kempeitai
Kenpeitai in Java partOf Kenpeitai
linked to: Kempeitai
Kenpeitai in Sumatra partOf Kenpeitai
linked to: Kempeitai