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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 Double Tenth Incident (National Library Board, Singapore) Double Tenth Massacre—The Elizabeth Choy Story (MINDEF Singapore) Double tenth (RCMS 103/15/6) , a report of the findings of a commission appointed to accept evidence from internees who were arrested on 10 October 1943, digitised in Cambridge Digital Library
It was argued that Yamashita was in full command of the Japanese Army's secret military police, the Kempeitai, which committed numerous war crimes on POWs and civilian internees and he simply nodded his head without protest when asked by his Kempeitai subordinates to execute people without due process or trials because there were too many ...
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 Kempeitai (the Japanese military police), which was the dominant occupation unit in Singapore, committed numerous atrocities towards the common people. They introduced the system of " Sook Ching ", meaning "purging through purification" in Chinese , to get rid of those, especially ethnic Chinese , deemed to be hostile to the Empire of Japan ...
The grieving father, who served as a helicopter pilot in the Army for 20 years, said he believes the commercial jet involved in the incident was following proper procedures. “From what I can see ...
Opposing these guerrillas were a Japanese-formed Bureau of Constabulary (later taking the name of the old Constabulary during the Second Republic), [47] [48] Kempeitai, [47] and the Makapili. [49] Postwar investigations showed that about 260,000 people were in guerrilla organizations and that members of the anti-Japanese underground were even ...
The documents allege Hamamoto told his brother-in-law an "incident had occurred," but he did not specify details. Hamamoto turned himself in to police in Sammamish after being encouraged to do so ...